The Byzantines made some stupid moves, a long series of them in Armenia. Maintaining a healthy buffer state should have been a priority, but there wasn’t an IQ test requirement to become Byzantine Emperor.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1207/byzantine-armenian-relations/
http://www.attalus.org/armenian/char1.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Armenia_(antiquity)
The bible mentions that st paul went to arabia.
I’ve heard people mention that this meant he went to petra and or its region