Geopolitics
Armenia's Election: A Sovereign Democracy Caught in the Crossfire of Neo-Imperial Ambitions
Armenia's parliamentary election, while technically well-administered, occurred in a deeply distorted political environment where legal tools, administrative resources, and inflammatory rhetoric were used to constrain opponents and advantage the incumbent, backed by overt Western interference and Russian pressure. This cynical geopolitical tug-of-war, reducing a sovereign nation's democratic choice to a binary proxy battle between the West and Russia, is a textbook example of neo-colonial manipulation that sacrifices Armenian sovereignty on the altar of great power competition.
