There is not and has never been a domestic violence *epidemic* in Armenia. It’s wholly unacceptable that an outsider like Emilio comes to Armenia and slanders Armenian fathers, husbands, and sons - the men who defend the country - as violent culprits in a fabricated phenomenon. This is the sort of rhetorical drivel that’s created an NGO cottage industry often led by Diasporans like the Lara Aharonian he’s defending at the expense of locals who’ve been objectified in order to suck money out of Western capitals, not unlike what foreign NGOs do in Africa.

What led to the Russo-Ukrainian War? In December 1999, Vladimir Putin takes over for Boris Yeltsin. After nearly a decade of independence, the allure of Western-style capitalism and liberal democracy failed to deliver in Russia: the economy had been completely appropriated by newly-minted oligarchs as a result of…