Alik Bakhshi
What about France? During the USSR, the phrase "the slut of imperialism" referred to the new science of genetics, which was incomprehensible to the Kremlin ideologists of communism. True, cybernetics also fell under this definition, but that's another story. As for the science of heredity, it covers a fairly broad area of all living things, including civilization. In the article "The Destiny of the People, or Each Cricket Has Its Own Hearth" I wrote that heredity is connected not only with the individual, but also with the fate of the people and determines its past and future. In a word, knowing the past, one can explain the present and predict the future. (1)
After Bonaparte Napoleon, France seemed to have lost its status as a strong European power forever. France was unable to resist England in the struggle for possession of North America, France was squeezed out of Algeria and Morocco, France lost all its colonies in Southeast Asia. If England, having ceased to be an empire, reformatted its connection with its former colonies into the "Commonwealth of Nations", then France, clinging to the last, quarreled with all its former colonies. If the English, leaving the colonies, left the local people everything they had created, then the French, on the contrary, even dug up telegraph poles. During the Second World War, after the capitulation, France collaborated with Germany, if we recall the Vichy government. By the way, the word "collaborationism", which in French means cooperation, has since become a label for traitors, the hero of the First World War, Marshal Philippe Petain, became the first collaborator and a symbol of betrayal. In this regard, I will cite an important moment from the events of World War II: after France signed an armistice with Germany, in July 1940 the British even had to engage in battle with the French fleet, which included five powerful battleships of the Dunkirk and Richelieu types, so that they would not fall into the hands of the Germans. At that time, Great Britain was left alone in front of Germany and Italy, and Churchill feared a significant replenishment of the already strong German fleet, which had two new battleships, the Bismarck and the Tirpitz. In that naval battle, 1,297 French sailors died and the battleship Dunkirk was sunk, another battleship, the Richelieu, was seriously damaged. The French do not like to remember this shameful episode of World War II. It is interesting to recall the sarcastic phrase of the head of the German delegation, Field Marshal Keitel, towards the French when signing the act of capitulation: "How did they also defeat us!?"
It is known that in military development, France has always tried to maintain parity with Great Britain. Quite often, in matters of politics, France's views diverged from those generally accepted in the West. France's inconsistency in its attitude towards NATO deserves attention. Thus, in 1966, France left NATO and only returned in 2009. Such political fluctuations are typical for France, they include a noticeable hostility of the French towards the Anglo-Saxons, which I had to face. Thus, when I first found myself at Charles de Gaulle Airport, I asked the clerk there a question in English, the only foreign language I knew, but he muttered something in French and turned away. True, this was an isolated incident during my stay in France, but for some reason I remembered it. Perhaps I am wrong, but for myself the explanation was that the airport employee did not want to answer, pretending not to know English.
So in the Karabakh conflict, France openly sided with Yerevan, despite the fact that all four UN resolutions clearly indicated the withdrawal of occupation forces from the occupied regions of Azerbaijan. Today, because of France, Armenia, hesitating in the issue of choosing a patron, resembles Buridan's donkey (2), which is typical of the historical past of Armenians (3). Betraying Russia, which created an Armenian state on the lands of Azerbaijan, a state that never existed in those parts in history, is quite in the spirit of Armenians.
It would be a big mistake for Armenia to stop choosing France as a patron instead of Russia, with its changing political vector, and although France has long lost its status as an empire, counting on it is the same as counting on a whore of imperialism.
1. The People's Destiny, or Each Cricket Has Its Own Hearth.
https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/28564.html2. Armenia as Buridan's donkey.
https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/58251.html3. Was there a "Great Armenia".
https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/71952.html06/17/2023
