Russia should not bribe or bully or threaten Armenia, if they government they elected wants to see what sort of concessions and bonuses they can get from the west then let them do that... but such friendly freebies are never free... look at Georgia... they are not by any means pro Russia or pro Putin, but some of their interests do not match the interests of the west, and you could say the same about the Ukraine... before the Maiden coup the Ukraine as not pro Russian or even very Russian friendly, but of the economic packages being offered at the time they chose the Russian package because it was more generous and more beneficial to the Ukraine... and it wasn't an exclusive deal so they could also accept investments from China at the same time. The western offer was the EU deal and not the Russian or the Chinese offer at the same time.
Russia didn't bully Georgia, but eventually the economic consequences of the loss of ties and trade and tourism and relations from Russia and the lack of a replacement from the west who are not interested in buying from more countries, meant they ended up realising that they don't need to be best buddies with Russia but good trading relations is financially beneficial to them, while the cost of making them an enemy will be significant in terms of how much they would need to spend on "defence", and western military equipment is very very expensive.
The issue here is that Armenia will abuse Russia to get the most out of it while working against it.
Which is why Russia should remain civil but not chase after the current pro west government in the country.
Honestly if the people hate Russia and the government hate Russia and blame Russia for all their problems, why does Russia need Armenia?
Azerbaijan and Turkey and Iran have all proven to be able to reach agreements with Russia and while they are not best buddies there can be cooperation and trade where both sides make a profit and grow and develop.
Armenia doesn't seem to know what it wants and blames Russia for all of its problems...
The best method is to put heavy pressure on them and to prove the US can't help them and then they will put pressure on Shitstaynian, the leader, to oust him to get better relations with Russia.
Putting pressure on them will just push them away, and regime change is a western thing... there is no point in changing government if the people are just going to elect something similar later on.
Look at Georgia. Russia destroyed them, got 2 pieces of land out of them, put pressure on them, and now they want to work with Russia in long run again.
The people in Georgia are smart enough to know that western support is temporary, while Russia being their big neighbour to the north is permanent...
Russia responded to Georgian aggression and did not enact regime change like a western government might in that situation.
The method of doing nothing but continue to pretend everything is normal, is what got Russia into the mess that is Ukraine right now.
Ukraine and the US and UK and EU and the Biden family and the Clinton family is what got Ukraine into its current position.
Russia isn't going to bully the EU into better relations, they are just accepting the EU cutting themselves off from Russia and turning to the rest of the world to fill the gap that they left. In the future when the EU realises it hurt itself more than it hurt Russia they might want better relations, but Russia will be trading with the rest of the world and might do a little trade with the west, but it wont be a focus or a priority. Russia wants good relations with everyone, but it wont beg or grovel or get down on its knees to trade with anyone.
Eventually, like Georgia and Slovakia and Hungary, the countries like Armenia and Finland and Sweden and other countries in the EU will come to their senses and grow up a little... or maybe they wont... it doesn't matter much for Russia because Russia will be trading with countries and making money and helping the countries it does trade to grow and develop and improve their quality of life.
The US was able to get brothers and sisters to kill each other.
It was, and that is easy, but what is its future? Death and destruction means profit for the US MIC, but for the countries, they are promised victory and comfort and becoming part of the west... but when has that ever happened?
And even when it does you give up your independence like Japan and Germany that are still occupied countries almost 80 years on.
They don't seem to be living the American dream either.
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US Army in Armenia!
Let's even leave aside the fact that the main source of such threats, in the conditional elimination of the consequences of which Armenian servicemen participated, is precisely the American leadership.
The fact is that this does not bode well for either Russia or the region as a whole. And the situation is such that the CSTO is once again inactive, although the example of the Central Asian countries has already shown that a herbivorous policy in our time is not just ineffective, but even destructive.