Thread by @akoz33

This is mostly true but:
1. Putin is surrounded by many Russified ethnic Armenians (including Lavrov and RT’s head Simoyan ) who actually do back Armenian claims but only as part of wider Russian imperial outreach. Their aim was to discredit Pashinyan and the American

https://twitter.com/edrormba/status/1328722378034212864

Armenian diaspora and turn Armenian into a Russian outpost. They view Armenian nationalist ambitions as a tool that can still be used in the future.
2. The Armenian cause was strongly supported by Russian nationalist groups linked to the militants fighting in the Donbas and in

Syria. Quite a few have Armenians fought with them and expected the same thing in return. Therea are strong emotional between the two as can be seen on the Russian Telegram site WarGonzo (which carries reports on the fighting in Syria, Donbas, Libya and NK) and the Russian

language Armenian nationalist site Armenian Vendetta. There is a palpable feeling of anger with Russia’s policy among some of the writers (some defend Putin saying he achieved the most that could have been achieved and blame Pashinyan and the West).
3. In addition to the

political consequences (and nobody doubts that the war was a big victory for Erdogan) it was a humiliation for Russia’s military technology, one that actually was accurately predicted by Pavel Felgengauer. No amount of pretending that Russia has better equipment that it just

wouldn’t let the Armenians will change this as the same has already been seen in both Syria and especially Libya, where Turkish drones proved equally devastating against Russian “Pantsirs” and and ground to air missiles.