Azerbaijan has said its military measures in Nagorno-Karabakh are continuing for a second day, having launched what it calls “anti-terror” operations in the enclave.
It says it will not stop until Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians surrender.
Tensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway region, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan and Armenia last went to war three years ago.
So. I guess “operation” is what we’re calling war these days? Disappointing to see even the BBC fall in line with the newspeak.
But the war has been going on for 30 years. It’s just one operation within the ongoing war.
You know why we in the west suck? We never do the right thing unless in benefits us directly. We’ve known for years that this was going to happen again and did jack shit to help the Armenian people secure themselves against it. We will go to the ends of the earth to protect Israel, but Armenia? Sorry y’all, your genocide just don’t hit the same.
For anyone who wants to know more about Karabakh and the horrible shit Azerbaijan has been pulling, I recommend checking a few of the more recent episodes on the “Popular Front” podcast. Also, send love and respect to people like James Adomian and Joe from “Lions Led By Donkeys” podcast, who repatriated to Armenia over the past few years. If there’s any justice in this world then hopefully some non-asshole power will lend Armenia the strength to defend itself.
Wait so if we suck for never always doing the right thing, how bad is everyone outside the west for not even doing it some of the time?
I kinda wonder if Russia could just invade Armenia, just to get them some NATO guns to defend themselves with.
Armenia is a member of the CSTO, right? That’s the NATO alternative run by Russia, as I understand it. Russia has no ability to actually help Armenia in this conflict, though.
I agree that the west is awful about doing the right thing if there’s no compounding factor to juice it like oil.
But Armenia made a decision to ally themselves with Russia for protection. That has proven to be a terrible mistake. Let’s not pretend this was a completely unavoidable situation that the west could just walk into and stop. Armenia’s membership in CSTO complicates that greatly.
So … gonna go with “a little of column a, a little of column b” here. I wish the west was more righteous and less greedy. I wish Armenia had chosen better friends.
From what I know, the roots of CSTO basically go back to the early 90’s and a time where a collective guarantee of regional safety largely made sense after the fracture of the soviet states. There was a lot of hope for Russia back then, and at the time, it probably made a lot of sense 30 years ago. New Russia, not so much…
So I see what your saying but also fully understand why a country of under 3 million and a very sparse economy would take the deal to defend against a territory hungry dictatorial petro state. How about we nudge that 50/50 to a 70/30?
“Now hurry up and surrender so we can exterminate all of you as efficiently as possible!”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of starting a ground operation aimed at “ethnic cleansing”.
But hundreds of Armenian protesters, frustrated by their country’s response, clashed with police outside parliament in Yerevan, condemning their leader as a traitor and calling on him to resign.
Azerbaijan said talks could start in the town of Yevlakh, some 100km (60km) north of the Karabakh regional capital of Khankendi, called Stepanakert by ethnic Armenians.
Azerbaijan said it had launched its operation in response to the deaths of six people, including four police, in two fatal landmine explosions on Tuesday morning.
Russia’s foreign ministry said it had been warned of the Azerbaijani offensive only minutes in advance and urged both countries to respect a ceasefire signed after the war in 2020.
Hikmet Hajiyev, special adviser to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, called on the separatist ethnic-Armenian administration to “dissolve itself”.
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