Home
Latest images
Register
Log in
Pashinyan says that Armenia has frozen its membership to the CSTO in all levels
https://armenpress.am/en/article/1198725
https://armenpress.am/en/article/1198725
+19
Hole
Rodion_Romanovic
Kiko
lancelot
JohninMK
franco
Isos
d_taddei2
par far
Werewolf
T055
Cyberspec
sepheronx
Hannibal Barca
Viktor
GarryB
TR1
Admin
Russian Patriot
23 posters
CSTO: News and Developments
George1- Posts : 18524
Points : 19029
Join date : 2011-12-22
Location : Greece
GarryB- Posts : 40555
Points : 41057
Join date : 2010-03-30
Location : New Zealand
If the people of Armenia are happy with that it looks to me rather like there is going to be a shift.
Russia will trade with anyone, friendly relations don't come it to it... business is business, so you don't need to be best buddies with the owner of a shop to buy their products.
Currently Russia is on good terms with Azerbaijan, even though traditionally they have been the bad guys because of their relations with Armenia... but if Russia can trade with both they likely will.
That clearly upsets Armenia and they are responding by turning west and away from Russia.
Russian relations have never been exclusive... Russia never tells a country you trade with us and no one else.
The Russian trade offers to Yanokovich/Ukraine were not trade with us and no one else... there were Chinese trade offers and EU trade offers too.
The EU offer was exclusive so to take their offer you had to reject all other offers.
It wasn't even a very good offer... and would have cost rather more than it delivered because included in the offer was for them to cut trade and ties with Russia for a few billion in loans that would have to be paid back...
But of course at the time they would make claims like the fact that they would be offering trade with the rich G7 and west which will more than compensate and you will become European... part of the first world... none of which was going to happen... they would demand everything be privatised and restrictions on foreign ownership rolled back and pretty soon the Ukrainian people would be like the Cuban people before their revolution... working in sugar cane fields or delivering drinks to rich people on holiday from the US on the beach living a life they could never afford or dream about.
Russia will trade with anyone, friendly relations don't come it to it... business is business, so you don't need to be best buddies with the owner of a shop to buy their products.
Currently Russia is on good terms with Azerbaijan, even though traditionally they have been the bad guys because of their relations with Armenia... but if Russia can trade with both they likely will.
That clearly upsets Armenia and they are responding by turning west and away from Russia.
Russian relations have never been exclusive... Russia never tells a country you trade with us and no one else.
The Russian trade offers to Yanokovich/Ukraine were not trade with us and no one else... there were Chinese trade offers and EU trade offers too.
The EU offer was exclusive so to take their offer you had to reject all other offers.
It wasn't even a very good offer... and would have cost rather more than it delivered because included in the offer was for them to cut trade and ties with Russia for a few billion in loans that would have to be paid back...
But of course at the time they would make claims like the fact that they would be offering trade with the rich G7 and west which will more than compensate and you will become European... part of the first world... none of which was going to happen... they would demand everything be privatised and restrictions on foreign ownership rolled back and pretty soon the Ukrainian people would be like the Cuban people before their revolution... working in sugar cane fields or delivering drinks to rich people on holiday from the US on the beach living a life they could never afford or dream about.
Broski likes this post