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You mean the revolutionaries, who evidently couldn't win by democratic means, tried? Meanwhile, de Gaulle did not in fact quit the club, and I hear Georgescu (who was anti-NATO and ahead in polls) just got arrested in Romania. Armenia also seems to be well in the process of quitting "Putin's empire", though that's still a wait-and-see situation.
Serious question- does Armenia have another choice?
Armenia is a tiny country whose archenemy with probably-genocidal intentions is backed to the hilt by a regional hegemon which tried to exterminate their people barely outside of living memory and still denies having done it and which has an enormous degree of influence over the actions of the world hegemon in the region. Their only options for allies- and without allies they will be occupied by enemies which, again, tried to exterminate them within the memories of the grandparents and have a state ideology that it didn't happen and was a good thing anyways- are Russia and Iran. Russia might allow Nagorno-Karabakh to be conquered, but they continue to deter a crossing of the internationally-recognized borders of Armenia.
Azerbaijan has already crossed the internationally-recognized borders in some places, too.
A big story that might have gotten little play in Western media due to the Ukraine conflict is that Armenia currently has a pro-Western president, who has been gradually cutting ties with Russia in favour of French guarantees - there is even mutual finger-pointing between him and the Russians, with his allies claiming that the Russians let the Azeris take NK unopposed to spite him, while Russians and their allies in Armenia claim that he ordered the Russian peacekeepers to stand down and remain in their base.
Some more conspiracy-theory-minded Russians even think that he used Armenia's CSTO access to pass some information about Russian air defense and strategic forces disposition to the Ukrainians via France, as part of a larger deal that looks something like "Russia humiliated, Nagorno-Karabakh surrendered, Zangezur Corridor connected, but Turkey and Azerbaijan refrain from further squeezing Armenia".
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