Azerbaijan demands that Armenia demilitarize, denazify, no longer contain it on behalf of foreign (Western) powers, stop obstructing regional trade routes, and allow ethnically cleansed Azeris to return.
I can’t express how much I value your analysis and stacks. You cover such a wide angle of politics (whatever politics is, always sounds more like high stakes games to me) of regions and nations where information (for me from the UK) is scant out there. Many thanks!
To hell with geopolitics. Just morals...Armenians were victims of horrible genocide by Turks 100 years ago.....and now world will just watch Turks crush them again?
Iran currently supplies gas to Azerbaijan’s exclave Nakhchivan. A gas pipeline is being built through the Zangezur corridor which crosses the Armenian territory, Syunik.
Europe is hungry for gas via additional pipelines through the region - will it sacrifice Armenia?
Hopefully Russia would simply lock the border and block weapon smuggling through borders controlled by Russia. And Russia should not accept request from Armenia for intervention without asking Armenia for controlling its own NATO-backed behavior. Ditto for Azerbaijan.
By the way, I think this is an inevitable by-product of multi-polarity. Multi-polarity does reduce a single hegemony from bullying around the world, but it does enable multiple small bullies. I guess this is yet another reason of why modern economy, technology, and weaponry are unfriendly for smaller nations. The smaller nations either have to align (spheres of influence) or to fight (needing some tough qualifications to participate) National sovereign comes from fighting and holding, not from other people politely recognizing one's country. A jungle you say? It has always been this way. The so-called peaceful life and rule-by-law is only because a single hegemony (the government) dominates against all other competition within a single domain.
I can’t express how much I value your analysis and stacks. You cover such a wide angle of politics (whatever politics is, always sounds more like high stakes games to me) of regions and nations where information (for me from the UK) is scant out there. Many thanks!
Thank you, that means a lot to me!
To hell with geopolitics. Just morals...Armenians were victims of horrible genocide by Turks 100 years ago.....and now world will just watch Turks crush them again?
How does this play into the pipelines?
Iran currently supplies gas to Azerbaijan’s exclave Nakhchivan. A gas pipeline is being built through the Zangezur corridor which crosses the Armenian territory, Syunik.
Europe is hungry for gas via additional pipelines through the region - will it sacrifice Armenia?
Hopefully Russia would simply lock the border and block weapon smuggling through borders controlled by Russia. And Russia should not accept request from Armenia for intervention without asking Armenia for controlling its own NATO-backed behavior. Ditto for Azerbaijan.
By the way, I think this is an inevitable by-product of multi-polarity. Multi-polarity does reduce a single hegemony from bullying around the world, but it does enable multiple small bullies. I guess this is yet another reason of why modern economy, technology, and weaponry are unfriendly for smaller nations. The smaller nations either have to align (spheres of influence) or to fight (needing some tough qualifications to participate) National sovereign comes from fighting and holding, not from other people politely recognizing one's country. A jungle you say? It has always been this way. The so-called peaceful life and rule-by-law is only because a single hegemony (the government) dominates against all other competition within a single domain.