Biden could've worn bronzer too. Also I'm embarrassed to admit this but I know that Biden won the coin toss and picked to be on the right side

Biden is to the right of Reagan

A pretty interesting book about Armenian Marxist Monte Melkonian is My Brother's Road by Markar Melkonian, himself a Marxist journalist. Monte was a leader in the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) an anti-Turkish/NATO/Israel ML group based out of Lebanon and allied with the PFLP and probably the Soviets. The book is interesting because no one really knows anything about this very secret organization but goes pretty in depth of one of the top commanders who seemingly was involved with many of the conflicts in the middleast from the mid 70s onwards. He was involved in the 79 revolution in Iran and the Lebanese civil war and invasion by Israel. ASALA got started during the civil war as a kind of neighborhood defense thing in Beirut but they expanded their operations through the middle east and Europe. The group eventually splits and Hagop's group carries hired assassinations while Monte's group fights in the first karabahk war, where he ends getting killed. There's a lot of great stories in this book though from blowing up Israeli tanks alongside the PFLP to getting arrested and the negotiation to get him released is we're going to cancel your embassies if you don't let Monte go, which they did.

ASALA is still around as sort of a boogie man but they haven't done anything since the late 90s. The Turkish nationalists often insinuate that ASALA created the PKK, but to my knowledge I don't think the two groups really worked together, but someone else my know more.

Markar also published a collection of his writings in The Wrong Train from the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent Soviet Armenian Republic and the transition to capitalist system but I'm a lazy butt and never finished it.

I don't think Markar is a academic Marxist considering he never denounced his brother who basically was the like the old school Bolsheviks that were in Stalin's group.

Some other famous Armenian Marxist are: The Mikoyan brothers. One is where MiG jets comes from and the other was a Bolshevik politician active from Lenin to Khrushchev and was a personal friend of Stalin from childhood. He was a negotiator during the cuban missile crisis and loved ice cream more than socialism according to Stalin.

There's Bagramyan a marshal of the soviet union during the Great Patriotic War. He led the liberation of the Baltics

Simon "Kamo" Der-Petrosian was a main member of Stalins group and his biggest thing was the Yerevan Square Expropriation which was a heist that ended killing like a dozen Tsarist Pigs and stole millions. He eventually got caught, was sentenced to execution, feigned insanity and was freed during the revolution where his group was so brutal to spies even Lenin told him to chill.

Sergei Lavrov is a former Marxist and favorite RBF diplomat of the Russian Fed. In the Soviet days he spent a lot of time in Sri Lanka and is fluent in Sinhala. He's more of a hardliner than Putin and was a cheerleader of the DPR and LPR basically from the onset.

I'm sure there's many more especially from the Soviet Union but I'm just going off the top of my head. Marxism was extremely popular in the Armenian community since it was the capitalist faction of the Turks that engaged the genocide. The Armenian community was split between the dashnaks who were the pro revolution social Democrats and Marxists. There were some libs but most understood revolution. The Dashnaks were/are anti Soviet and tend to be pretty conservative nowadays. The Marxists don't really exist in an organized fashion mostly fading away after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Whelp I guess no more Ukraine

It's because they're a toxic burning trash heap

Even Earth hated him

Apparently gunmen have stormed a police station in the Armenian capital.

I've heard from Armenians from the country that there's a lot of hatred towards the police as they really protect Pashinyan and tend to violently put down protests, moreso than they used to.

This also happened a few years ago before the color revolution by a group called Sansa Tsrer.

The Serj Tankian comments made me sit down. They acknowledge that he's right about 9-11 but since he said it two days afterwards he's wrong or something and that he's Armenian.

I'm still trying to figure out what Armenians did to zionists to earn their ire outside of getting ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 48 and trying to stay in the Armenian quarter of Old Jerusalem.

Probably has more to do with the Pashinyan's color revolution that blamed Russia for most of the problems in society. Or the Soviet mindset

I can also understand why Russia wouldn't help the government that antagonized them at every opportunity. After all, why would you let your soldiers die when the government asking for help refuses to fight. That would be moly. At least zelensky wouldn't be dumb enough to ask Putin for help when Poland takes Lviv

This is literally a day after Azerbaijan requested Armenian hand over four villages that are in Armenia. I'm sure Macron will scold Aliev and then pay him a couple billion for natural gas.

At this point I hope Russia invades. My people yearn for freedom Putin

He's a fascist of the neo Nazi variety. Constantly dehumanized Caucasians (of the Caucasus mountains like chechens dagastanis Georgians Armenians etc). He's basically the zelenskiyiyiyiyi of Russia

Isn't the president supposed to be the one who establishes treaties and not congress? The fOuNdInG fAtHeRs would disapprove.