Rouben Azizian

needs friendly neighbours.

Armenia needs to end this war and Armenia needs to get out of that one-sided dependence on Russia.

I'm here for a course we ran for some of our defence officials who will be appointed as defence attachés in various countries.

And one of the important things is to understand cultural differences and cultural motivations.

Yes, there is.

I mean, we can always argue about definitions.

And some people think that we are not in World War III, but it depends how you define World War III.

We could very well define what's happening as a World War III.

Look, we have 50 or so coalition partners of Ukraine, including New Zealand, supporting Ukraine and doing military and other support.

We have basically North Korea and Iran very much aligned to Russian interests and China basically being sympathetic at least.

So there are all the features of a third world war.

For some reason, we are careful not to call it that.

There is hesitancy to provide long-range missiles.

So there's a restrained support for Ukraine, and that makes it a little bit uneven in terms of a full war, in my opinion, is when both countries contribute equally in terms of enthusiasm and ambition.

Here we see, I think, Europe and the U.S.

being involved and supporting, but...

Of course, people will say, come on, Ruben, we don't want to escalate.

We don't want to make it a full Third World War, which they mean by the use of nuclear weapons.

I think that's the difference.

So we are worried that Russia will use nuclear weapons.