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The original was posted on /r/armenia by /u/ReverendEdgelord on 2025-01-29 21:11:58+00:00.

u/T-nash had written a very interesting comment on the subject in a related discussion at:

So, I was thinking, what is the reason the Republic struggles to reach the diaspora and organise it?

Obviously, money is a big issue, and if we had unlimited coffers, we could just throw more money at the problem. However, I don’t think that this is the only issue. I think that there is, at the diplomatic level, a significant disconnect between Republic Eastern Armenians, and Armenians who have been shaped by life in the diaspora.

I think that we also have an issue of charisma, vision and leadership. There are hardly any people in Armenian politics who are truly visionary, and the kinds of politicians Armenians in the RoA as well as the diaspora could look to as all-Armenian cultural leaders, visionaries and unifiers.

At one point, the Apostolic Church may have played this role, but they have had their chance and with the subordination to Russia and the pervasive corruption they wallow in, they have discredited themselves. There’s also the issue that in today’s world, I think we are long past clerics and clerical governance as a source of all-Armenian collaboration and coordination. We are largely a religious people, but secular in our everyday lives and political structures.

A lot of Armenian politicians, even the competent ones, don’t appear to have vision or a drive towards any form of national revival or reconnection with the diaspora, especially with Western Armenians. I am culturally Eastern Armenian, so perhaps I am overreacting, but it feels like the RoA is less the nation state for all Armenians, including Western Armenians, and more a “brotherly nation” with significant cultural connection, like Norway is to Sweden or something like that.

Why is it that we are such paltry diplomats?