Armenia’s Military Mutinies Against the Pro-Western, Soros-Backed PM — President Takes Their Side

Armenia’s generals demand Prime Minister’s resignation over the combination of his poor wartime leadership and the attempt to scapegoat them for the defeat:

BREAKING NEWS: MORE THAN 40 HIGH-RANKING MILITARY PERSONNEL, INCLUDING THE HEAD OF THE GENERAL STAFF ONIK GASPARYAN, SIGNED A PAPER DEMANDING PASHINYAN’S RESIGNATION. https://t.co/Rt2O1BK2DN

— 301🇦🇲 (@301_AD) February 25, 2021

He responded by ordering the highest-ranking of them dismissed but after deliberation, the President refused to get onboard:

BREAKING: PRESIDENT ARMEN SARKISYAN DID NOT SIGN THE ORDER ON THE DISMISSAL OF ONIK GASPARYAN.

THE PRESS SERVICE OF THE ARMENIAN PRESIDENT REPORTS THAT ARMEN SARKISYAN RETURNED THIS ILLEGAL ORDER TO THE GOVERNMENT.

— 301🇦🇲 (@301_AD) February 27, 2021

Pashinyan: the President didn't sign my order of dismissing the Chief of the General Staff, which doesn't help in solving the situation. He stated that he sent it back to the President hoping that he signs it. pic.twitter.com/yU5YLYjcVJ

— 301🇦🇲 (@301_AD) February 27, 2021

So now it is PM’s position which is threatened:

JUST IN: ALL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE RA ARMED FORCES WITH THEIR COMMANDERS AND PERSONNEL JOINED THE CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF'S DEMAND OF PASHINYAN'S RESIGNATION. pic.twitter.com/bOUPQXf0Vy

— 301🇦🇲 (@301_AD) February 27, 2021

BREAKING; Armenian police now also call for resignation of @NikolPashinyan – list of 30 police officials including Lieutenants and generals are calling on the PM to resign and outright said they will support the army commanders.

— ASB News / MILITARY〽️ (@ASBMilitary) February 25, 2021

No surprise there, Erdogan prefers the pro-Western, Soros-backed Pashinyan who just presided over defeat to Azerbaijan and Turkey to stay on:

Erdogan is now the defender of the Armenian peoples' will. He's worried about our future. pic.twitter.com/kOaY3kh0cR

— 301🇦🇲 (@301_AD) February 26, 2021

Karlin has something on how all of this started:

Hilariously, the thing that kicked this off was the Iskander missiles that Russia had supplied to Armenia.

Pashinyan was dissing the Iskanders supplied, dismissing them as a “1980’s technology” and claiming that only 10% of them exploded. General Tiran Khachatrian said that it was nonsense, which prompted his firing.

However, Pashinyan had apparently forbidden the General Staff from using Iskanders against Azeri enemy troop concentrations on account of the backlash it would provoke from the “international community”:

“On the third day of the war, I, as the head of the General Staff, decided to use Iskander in the direction of two strategically important facilities, one of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipelines. Pashinyan categorically forbade it, although the Russians made it clear that it is your business, it is your war.

Three days before the attack on Shushi, I asked Pashinyan for permission to strike with two Iskanders directly at the enormous accumulation of enemy manpower on the outskirts of Shushi. Pashinyan categorically forbade it, saying that the international community would curse us if we killed several thousand enemy soldiers at the same time.

This apparent chutzpah is what provoked this apparent mutiny on the part of the military brass.