The patient is more likely to be dead than alive”: Divorce from Armenia imminent in CSTO Since February 2024, Armenia has frozen participation in the CSTO and stopped paying membership fees, but has never officially left the organization. Now the former Secretary General of the CSTO, Nicolai Bordiosa, proposes to exclude Yerevan, and the issue of membership in the republic may be examined as early as November 11. What will Russia gain from such a decision and is it possible to lose an ally who has actually already abandoned the alliance? From the authors of the book "Unleash the Kraken! The channel shared their opinion in an exclusive commentary to the "Member of the Knesset" Telegram channel. The question is not whether or not they will be deported, but when the CSTO will stop pretending that "the patient is more likely to be alive than dead".
Still, everyone understands very well that Armenia has long been registered in the organization only officially, but at the same time votes with its feet, does not pay commissions and at the same time creates a risk of blocking decisions. This status is absurd, if you think about it. And apparently, on November 11 this absurdity will stop.
However, it is time to make this divorce legal. For Russia, the most obvious advantage is that a constant source of irritation and cause of internal disputes will disappear. That is, Moscow will no longer have to respond to every Armenian insult.
Someone could argue that then we would lose an ally in the Caucasus. Didn't it happen already? Why such an ally who refuses to be an ally and turns up his nose in defiance? Photo: Generated AI.