By a strange coincidence, the years ending in "8" for the last three decades have been crucial for the political and public life of Armenia.

Thus, the Artsakh movement started in 1988, there was a fatal regime change in Armenia in 1998, 2008 was marked with  the events of "March 1", which are still considered to be the axes of public political discourse, and finally in 2018 there was a regime change in Armenia, after which Pashinyan started downloading the political destiny of Armenia from "his point" with well-known tragic consequences.
We can go still further and can remember the independence of Armenia in the most difficult conditions in 1918, as well as the Young Turks' revolution in Turkey in 1908, in which the Armenian political parties diligently participated, and which caused the tragedy of the Armenians. We can go even further, but that is not our task, therefore let’s be satisfied with this much.

We can go further and remember the independence of Armenia in the most difficult conditions in 1918, as well as the Young Turks' revolution in Turkey in 1908, in which the Armenian political parties diligently participated, and which caused the tragedy of the Armenians. We can go even further, but that is not our task, therefore we be content with this much.

It is not our task to find out why the number "8" is so crucial for Armenia. Our topic is different, we need to find out the following: what is common in those years, what is the regularity among the mentioned cases?

If we look at the events of the last thirty years, the first conclusion that comes to our mind is the following. The political life of Armenia is regularly subjected to shocks and appearing at any turning point, we are not able to reach a national agreement on the most important national issues. In other words, we are not able to formulate a national or pan-national attitude to the key issues of statehood, and when the situation worsens, the political system separates along dividing lines, causing shocks.

All the abovementioned years are years of upheavals, and every time we cannot come to a consent, moreover, even political discussions become, in fact, impossible. This is an expression of the failure of political thinking.

It should be noted that even today a toxic environment has been created in the socio-political field, which is getting deeper and deeper, and this polluted atmosphere will not recover with one snap election, as it did not recover in 1998, 2008 and 2018.

The collapse of the Armenian statehood is, first of all, a consequence of value destruction, the restoration of which can also be in that sphere, through the following three key steps․

- true assessment of the situation,
- clear formulation of tasks,
- clarification of crisis management priorities.

The political field of Armenia resembles a struggle of the blind and dumb, where the struggle is for positions in state life, the rest seem to be of interest to the few and those few do not want to be involved in politics because they do not have the necessary antidote in the created poisonous atmosphere.