Everyone is amazed at the insistence with which the Armenian lobby is leading Russia towards a "big war" and military disaster. Last week, undoubtedly the "chief Russian patriots" whose "patriotism" and "irreconcilable opposition to the West" were cited as "examples" of Russians were Margarita Simonyan and Sergey Lavrov-Kalantarov.

Following the revelation that the Kremlin's chief propagandist and editor-in-chief of Russia Today media group and RT TV channel, Margarita Simonyan, was put on the US sanctions list, she responded with an emphatically bravura response:

 " I am proud to be in the same company as such esteemed people. I hope the sanctions give me the right to invite them all to a kebab party," Simonyan said.

In addition, the editor-in-chief noted in her telegram channel that she does not and has never had any real estate, business or bank accounts abroad.

Simonyan also stressed that she considers the US a "wonderful country" where she studied and where her friends live:

"But I haven't travelled to this beautiful country for years, because this beautiful country has sent me a subpoena to testify in a case to be declared as foreign agents, and I know how such subpoenas sometimes end, and I cannot risk leaving my three children motherless for many years," Simonyan noted, and nevertheless added that "on the aggregate of the above, I don't give a damn about these sanctions...".

Meanwhile, it should be recalled that Simonyan's career soared after she was an "exchange" student in the US at the age of 15. For those who do not know - the organized "exchange" trips were supervised by the CIA and were nothing but training for future agents.

The fact that sanctions are being imposed on one's own agent by the US can be interpreted in two ways. Perhaps the sanctions were imposed "temporarily and for fun" - so that the rabid "anti-Americanism" in the media of US agent Simonyan would be more convincing to Russian citizens. However, it cannot be ruled out that the agent "got carried away" and started "yapping at her masters more than she should" - and was given a "warning".

Most of all, as a "militant Russian patriot", Sergey Lavrov-Kalontarov, Russia's foreign minister and Armenian nationalist, met with US Secretary of State Anthony Bleeken in Geneva on Friday, January 21. At the meeting, the "best diplomat of all times," as he is called by short-sighted Russian ura-patriots, did his utmost to inflame the situation around Ukraine and push the world even closer to a new "big war". Lavrov-Kalontarov did not mention any possible compromises, on the contrary, he put forward new, knowingly impossible ultimatums.

As his body clarified, the new Russian demands for so-called "security guarantees" were the withdrawal of NATO troops from Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the Alliance after 1997. The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that this point was deliberately made very clear in the draft agreements:

"This refers to the withdrawal of foreign forces, equipment and armaments and other steps to return to the 1997 configuration on the territory of countries that were not members of NATO at the specified date. This includes both Bulgaria and Romania," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Until 21 January 2022 there was no talk at all of NATO troops in Romania and Bulgaria. But without waiting for a response to his past ultimatums on Ukraine, Lavrov-Kalontarov deliberately went "up the ante" by demanding that NATO "leave" two more countries, full members of the Alliance.

Thus, Kalontarov made a compromise impossible in principle, even in the hypothetical case if the US had made concessions on the previously voiced points. In other words, it is not enough for Kalontarov to "non-join" Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. He demands that NATO should "give up to Russia" Romania and Bulgaria.

If we consider the threat of Russian aggression in Ukraine, then only the Black Sea coast of Turkey and a small segment of the Georgian coast from Anaklia to Sarpi, which is always "under the gun" of a group of occupants stationed in Abkhazia, remain "outside Russian armed intervention".

At that, the West understands that in case NATO leaves and does not defend Romania and Bulgaria, then, at some point, Russian troops may also "dashingly" appear there, as they have recently appeared "in the framework of the CSTO" in Kazakhstan.

The foreign ministry of Russia Derzhava, which really wants peace, does not behave as aggressively as the Russian foreign ministry under Lavrov-Kalontarov.

It is clear that the Russian people, like other nations, need peace. However, it appears that the Armenian lobby, which has "seized power" in Russia, wants different things. And what is that? Do Armenian nationalists dream of turning the Black Sea into an "Armenian lake"?

 Judging by trends, such "dreams" cannot be excluded. Separatist Abkhazia, taken away with Russian help, has already been transformed "into a small seaside Armenia".  Russia's Krasnodar region is becoming more Armenian than Russian. Armenian expansion into the occupied Crimea is underway. Armenian nationalists do not hide their claims to the Black Sea towns of Trabzon and Rize, and to "break through" a corridor through Samtskhe-Javkheti to Adjara and the Black Sea coast of Georgia ...

What else remains to be done? To "settle" with the help of "Russian bayonets" on the Black Sea coast of Romania and Bulgaria? And at the same time in the south of Ukraine, which the Armenian nationalists can also quite "master" after large-scale aggression of the Russian Federation ...

It is clear that Kalontarov's new claims, this time against Romania and Bulgaria, will not lead to anything else but aggravation of the situation in the geopolitically important Black Sea region. And it is no coincidence that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference after the meeting in Geneva with Sergey Lavrov that he warned about Moscow's choice between negotiation and war.

"Russia faces a choice - negotiations or conflict," Blinken said.

He added that the U.S. is prepared for both options. 

Blinken also warned Lavrov that "crossing the Ukrainian border by Russian troops would be considered an invasion and would entail a response".

But we recall that Russian troops are de facto already on Ukrainian territory - both in illegally annexed Crimea and in the guise of PMCs in Donbass. Provocations and, consequently, inciting a "big war" can be expected at any moment.

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