On Aug. 8, a beaming Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev shook hands over President Donald Trump, agreeing to a seemingly win-win peace deal that would see the decades-old rivals finally put an end to their feuding.

This is the view held by Baku and Yerevan, at least. As Armenians struggle to come to terms with the crushing loss of Nagorno-Karabakh, diaspora Armenians in the U.S. feel disappointed by both their home country and ancestral homeland. To many of them, the latest preliminary peace deal signed by Pashinyan represents a humiliating capitulation.