Arastun Orujlu: 2021 is a year of missed opportunities

Baku/30.12.21/Turan: Several hours  left until the end of 2021. What political events have marked 2021?

Political observer Arastun Orujlu spoke about the results of 2021 in the "Difficult Question" program. According to him, the past year has been both politically and economically bleak.

“This has been a year of missed opportunities. The possibilities of the country that won the war were much broader and countries could take much more decisive steps. However, we have witnessed attempts to return Azerbaijan to the state in which it was before the war, although the war changed the Azerbaijani society,” Orujlu said. According to the observer, war is changing any society.

“At least it changes its consciousness, its  ideas. I am not yet touching on the economic, social, military-political influence. But, morally, psychologically, war changes the minds of people. It accumulates enormous potential energy in society,” he is sure.

According to his words, the history of post-war countries shows that in most of them, after the end of the war, there was a rapid leap, rapid development. “It is enough to turn to the example of Germany and Japan. Their successes are impressive. As for the victorious countries, the USA, Great Britain, France, the USSR, all these countries have seen a giant leap forward,” he said.

Orujlu noted that after the end of the war, there were serious expectations in Azerbaijani society, but we witnessed some unhealthy rivalry, attempts to take away the victory they had won from the people, from the army and attribute it to one person, which meant strengthening the existing authoritarian model based on a strong centralized the power of one person.

“The past year has served just that. Thanks to such propaganda, the number of Ilham Aliyev's supporters in society has increased. “Nobody argues, Ilham Aliyev led the war as a whole very successfully. But here we saw another phenomenon - it turned out that he did not even trust his team. We can say that he fought the war alone. Starting with working with the mass media, ending with the leadership of military operations. He removed from the conduct of hostilities the Chief of the General Staff, the Minister of Defense. Nobody belittles Ilham Aliyev's merits in achieving victory, however, there are attempts to turn this into an object of rivalry and to put pressure on the people in order to return them to their previous state, to put pressure on the army,” the expert says.

According to him, ultimately this led to the fact that the energy of the people went into the sand.--0--