in Armenian – http://crossroadorg.info/hy/wa-21-9-2025-7-hy/
in Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/wa-21-9-2025-7/
in French – http://crossroadorg.info/en/wa-21-9-2025-7-fr/

Source

(in the current crisis, we urge you to carefully read this series of articles prepared in early 2012 and consisting of eight parts)

Just like the And the 2017 article in the magazine “Strategist”: “The US Should Support the Plan to Create a Kurdish State in Iraq”, the 2006 publication “A New Map of the Middle East According to Blood Ties and Similarities in Faith” are about the plan of Western circles to create a large Kurdish state, which pursues two goals:

a) to create a Kurdish state on the territory of Western Armenia, sub-mandated to Israel and the collective West, and

b) to suspend, once again, for a certain period of time, the implementation of the rights granted to the Armenian people and the settlement of the Armenian Question, following the example of 1920-1921 and 1945.

We have addressed these programs in a number of speeches, publications, and analyses since 2010. Now we find it appropriate to repeat both the publications presenting Western programs and our previously prepared articles on these programs.

State of Armenia (Republic of Western Armenia)

September 22, 2025

Armenia in Ralph Peters’ Article and Maps

(Part 7)

In the article “A New Map of the Middle East Based on Blood Ties and Religious Affinities,” written by retired U.S. Army officer Ralph Peters on June 6, 2006, the key passage regarding Armenians and Armenia is as follows: “And such a terrible crime as the genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in a state of decay can never be compensated by territorial “gifts”” (1).

You really need to have a lot of imagination to be able to utter a sentence that skillfully packs at least three blatant falsehoods:

1. The actions against Armenians were crimes against humanity, which have no statute of limitations and must be punished; thus, the term “crime” is more accurate than “terrible crime.”
2. There is no need to justify the Ottoman Empire by claiming it was in a state of decay. The Armenian Genocide was carried out by three Turkish governments: the Sultanate, the Young Turk, and the Kemalist administrations (1894–96, 1909, 1915–17, 1918–23), with the bulk occurring in 1915–17, when the Ottoman Empire was not in decline.
3. Armenians should not be deprived of “gifts,” because their homeland does not disappear; it is only temporarily occupied (2). Furthermore, the Treaty of Sèvres and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitrary Decision provided for partial compensation, which was not implemented but remains legally required. The Wilson decision included only 40% of the Armenian homeland, arguing that Armenians did not constitute a majority at that time; now they do.

It is said that a person in the U.S. cannot escape two things: death and taxes. It is noteworthy how Ralph Peters and his expert group handle American taxpayer money, circumventing U.S. national interests, including the president’s own ratified Arbitrary Decision. Similar actions were taken by U.S. senators in 1920, who rejected the Armenian mandate (3).

Although Peters includes Armenia among the theoretically benefiting countries with a return of Mount Ararat, the map does not include:

1. Territories belonging to Armenia under Wilson’s Arbitrary Decision;
2. The three vilayets of Western Armenia and Cilicia;
3. The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh;
4. The Autonomous Nakhichevan region.

These omissions follow arbitrary early 20th-century divisions, similar to Trotskyist “gifts” (4). In other words, nearly all rights of Armenians and Armenia—national, state, legal, political, economic, cultural, historical, and civilizational—are ignored.

This situation is particularly instructive: considering the experience of the First and Second World Wars, when Armenians participated in major military-political operations with faith and potential, only to remain alone with their losses afterward, today Armenians may adopt a neutral stance (5).

Therefore, it is more prudent for Armenians to focus on creating their own contemporary national security and self-defense system. This is evidenced by the entire work produced by Ralph Peters and his expert group.

Public initiative “The Covenant of Ararat” («Ուխտ Արարատի»), freedom fighters and former political prisoners of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

April 3, 2012

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References:

1. See Ralph Peters, “A New Map of the Middle East Based on Blood Ties and Religious Affinities,” translation and preface in Azg newspaper, 25.08.2006: Blood borders, How a better Middle East would look, All content © 2006, Armed Forces Journal | Terms of Service.
2. See Paruyr Sevak, “The Homeland Does Not Disappear, It Is Only Occupied,” “Three-voice liturgy,” February 1965, YZHL, No. 4, Armenia publishing, Yerevan, 1973, p. 314.
3. See “The Mandate for Armenia,” U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee decision, June 1, 1920, 11 against 3, rejecting President Wilson’s proposal to take the Armenian mandate, HSN, No. 6, Yerevan, 1980, pp. 147–148.
4. See Lev Trotsky, Armenia and Turkey at the Upcoming Conference, “Life nationalities,” March 4, 1921, Oukht Ararati («Ուխտ Արարատի»), No. 3/14, October–November 2007, pp. 18–22.
5. See Convention on the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of Land War, The Hague, October 18, 1907.