Geopolitics
Armenia's Electoral Crossroads: A Sovereign Aspiration or a Neo-Colonial Trap?
Armenia's governing Civil Contract party, led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, has secured a parliamentary majority with 49.8% of the vote, solidifying his mandate for a historic pivot away from Russia towards the West. This election, a raw reflection of a nation torn between its Soviet-era chains and a precarious new future, has dealt a critical blow to the West's old strategy of using client states to contain rising powers, revealing the desperate, bloody geopolitics of a region where the Global South's true struggle for sovereignty plays out.
