OPINION: In a recent moment that passed with remarkably little notice in the West, Armenia n Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan acknowledged something extraordinary. The loss of Nagorno-Karabakh — the 2020-2023 military defeat that cost Armenia its principal strategic buffer and ultimately drove 120,000 ethnic Christian Armenia ns from their ancestral homeland — was, in his words, “a calculated sacrifice to preserve Armenia’s independence.” Those of us who have spent years documenting what actually