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Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned a small group of lawmakers last week that his department is tracking the possibility that Azerbaijan could soon invade Armenia, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
Azerbaijiani President Ilham Aliyev has previously called on Armenia to open a “corridor” along its southern border, linking mainland Azerbaijan to an exclave that borders Turkey and Iran. Aliyev has threatened to solve the issue “by force.”
Would you like Armenian genocide to go with your Palestinian genocide? We are having a 2-for-1 sale on classic Muslim genocides this month.
Just going to pass over the Ukrainian genocide?
Sure does seem like everyone’s trying to go to war at once.
Sorry, I haven’t finished following the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar yet. Can I pay in installments?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but Armenians aren’t muslims, they’re majority Christian.
Oh, I didn’t even know that. I assumed that they were Muslims from the region. Interesting that we haven’t heard anything from the “Christians are being persecuted” crowd about them.
The “Christians being persecuted” crowd only care about Target selling shirts with rainbows.
They were actually the first Christian nation in 301 AD/CE. Not that state religion is great, but it’s an interesting history given they were sandwiched between the Romans and the Parthians at the time and were pretty much a football between the Romans and whoever was nextdoor throughout the entirety of the Roman empire. If they aligned with “nextdoor” the Romans often ignored them as long as they didn’t allow armies from nextdoor through. And when the Romans had their own puppet king over there, well, bully for them.
Not much has changed. Now they’re sandwiched between Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Georgia, with Georgia being a Russian conduit at least militarily if not politically. And Turkey and Azerbaijan are effectively one and the same with Azerbaijian having a dash of Russian influence. That’s not a great place to be if you’re a tiny country served as an appetizer to the surrounding powers.
Anyway, welcome to my TED Talk.
Oh boy, WW3 is really warming up huh? 😞
Wars and rumors of wars.
I feel like that even if you don’t believe in the apocalypse, we’re living in the end times.
Azerbaijan and Turkey are monitoring the west’s reaction to what Israel is doing before going ahead. Turkey has been such a good Western alley lately really provided help at pivotal moments. What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.
What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.
F16s.
Which is yet another reason why the West will hang Armenia out to dry.
Turkey already endorsed a corridor between the two countries through the south of Armenia, immediately after the attack on Artsakh, literally 4 days, while 100,000 Armenians were fleeing.
Why would Armenia open this corridor voluntarily? Azerbaijan already pinky swore Artsakh wouldn’t be attacked. Erdogan knows how this will be solved, and it won’t be pen and paper.
Understand that Armenia is a Russian puppet state.
russian peacekeepers are letting it happen - they’ve been cooperating with Azerbaijan - so really the US and Russia are on the same side here (the side of “let the genocides rip”). Its probably worth noting Azerbaijan has oil and Armenia doesn’t.
They also have many of the pipelines that send oil/gas from that region to Europe. Hence the hand wringing and platitudes from the West rather than actual help. Aliyev knows this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gas_Corridor
And when Armenia had the gall to even hint at trying to break from under Russia’s thumb to the West, Aliyev got the ok from Russia to teach them a lesson.
Azerbaijian took Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh 8 days later, in spite of a prior Russian security agreement to prevent exactly that.
