Armenia’s Prime Minister Is Trapped.

On June 4, 2025, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated, in response to a wide-ranging student question during a talk given at Yerevan State University, “We have lost part of our homeland, but we have gained a state.” We must assume that before having “lost part of our homeland,” Armenia wasn’t a state.

Armenia was more of a sovereign entity before Pashinyan was ushered into power in 2018, and today, Armenia is caught in a diplomatic trap. Why is this?