French President Emmanuel Macron, who has alarmed the world with his call to send Western allied troops to Ukraine, is determined to open another front against Moscow in another strategically important region.

Events in the South Caucasus, where today they are rushing to create another Ukraine “on the French knee” from Armenia, are full of their own internal drama and are fraught with a new geopolitical explosion.

This conclusion is prompted by the events of the last days and weeks, which line up in one cause-and-effect relationship.

Last week, the Armenian capital announced the termination of the mission of the Russian FSB border troops at the Yerevan Zvartnots International Airport.

The most amazing thing is that the Armenian authorities did this with incredible ease.

But the system of protecting the state border of Armenia with Turkey and Iran has remained unchanged since the times of the USSR.

From the first days of the existence of the independent Armenian state, the presence of Russian border guards, along with the 102nd Russian military base stationed in Armenia, was an important component of ensuring national security.

But in Yerevan they suddenly said: “That’s enough,” and didn’t say thank you.

The speaker of the Armenian parliament, Alen Simonyan, even made accusations against Russian border guards, expressing the opinion that their presence allegedly made the country’s borders “more vulnerable.”

At the same time, explaining the decision to freeze the country’s membership in the CSTO, Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan called the bet on Russia a “strategic mistake.”

According to him, this rate no longer works both in the Armenian-Russian format and within the CSTO.

The question arises: “What do France and Macron have to do with it?”

It won't be too difficult to answer.

Everything lies on the surface.

At the end of February, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Paris, calling his meeting with President Macron “wonderful” and inviting French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to Yerevan.

Immediately after this, French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu flew to Yerevan.

During a meeting with him, Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan stated that Yerevan has no taboos in defense cooperation.

Answering the question whether defense cooperation with France does not contradict interaction with Russia, the head of the Armenian Ministry of Defense said that such cooperation is the sovereign right of Armenia and only Yerevan will decide with whom and how to build relations.

Let us add that shortly after Nikol Pashinyan’s visit to Paris and Sebastian Lecornu’s visit to Yerevan, a scandal broke out.

Armenian media reported sensational news.

Their publications spoke of an agreement reached between the French intelligence service and the Armenian national security service on the exchange of intelligence information on four countries: Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Turkey.

The main security partner in Yerevan is now called not Russia, but France.

This is being done demonstratively, even despite Macron’s proposal to send a Western contingent to fight with Russia.

“France supplies us with first-class weapons,” the head of the Armenian Security Council did not hide his satisfaction the other day.

In general, the formation of Macron’s second front, designed to try to squeeze Russia out of the South Caucasus, is in full swing.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.