Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov recently rejected as "ridiculous" common-sense calls for the Artsakh Republic to take part in talks to determine the status and security of its
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How old is Azerbaijan in relation to the Armenian Kingdom, nation, people and culture? Why do Jews hate Armenians so much by providing military arms and personnel to Azerbaijan? Why did the Jewish ADL for years conspired and committed hate speech with Turkey in denying the Armenian Genocide and ANCA did nothing about it?
If I were Armenia, I would be worried. Very worried, because as Turkey and Russia increase their cooperation and relationship, time might come when Russia sees no use for Nagarno-Karabahk to remain under Armenian occupation. Tick tock Armenia. Tick Tock.
Tuna,
I assure you there will be no “tic tac toe”
Yes, if oil man gets back to Artsakhi land he will do what ever he is done to Julfa’s old Armenian cemetery and creation of 2-nd Armenian Genocide by newly crowned invading Turkic herds!
KGB Putin will never destabilize the region, unless oil man stop paying Russia and that’s unlikely, because Putin next chosen man is on the line of duty! On the other hand Putin and Turkey will never dare to destabilize the region without Iran’s permission.
Azerbaijani tense internal situation, Kurdish war against Turks, and Russia’s North Caucasus situation will work in favor of Armenia, where political stabilization will be supported by the most advanced civilized nations!
Actually, there doesn’t exist any particular land by the name of “Nagarno-Karabahk.”
How extremely ridiculous it was when Levon Ter-Petrosyan (LTP) agreed to Heydar Aliyev’s ceasefire, back in 1994, and therefore ordered the Armenian freedom fighters to halt their advance towards Baku and to instead return back to the newly liberated Armenian land of Artsakh. If that dope of LTP hadn’t made this horribly stupid mistake, then in a matter of 2 to 3 weeks, the Armenian soldiers would’ve easily reached Baku. Therefore, in addition to the liberation of the historic Armenian province of Artsakh, the whole entire “country” of Azerbaijan (once upon a time, it had been an Armenian province by the name of Aghvank) would today be a part of the Artsakh Republic.
Yerevanian seems to have a fantasy that strangely parallels that of an Azeri fantasist (he dreams of all Azerbaijan being Armenia the Azeri dreams of all Armenia being Azerbaijan). What does Yerevanian think some temporary nominal “capture” of Baku would have accomplished? Armenia could never have conclusively won a war against Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan could never have conclusively won a war against Armenia. The fighters back then showed great wisdom in taking only territory that was integral to Artsakh or needed for its successful defense, because the most Artsakh can achieve militarily is to halt and successfully neutralize Azeri attacks. That defensive strategy has worked. However, all Azerbaijan needs is to make one overwhelming attack that is not halted and then it will be the end of Artsakh, the complete end, for ever, for all time. Preventing the smallest chance that at some time in the unpredictable future that could happen is why finding a political solution will be an eventual necessity. But it has to be a political solution based on reality, which the obsolete Madrid Principles are not.
Nope, I’ve got no fantasy whatsoever of “all Azerbaijan being Armenia.” However, the reality is that if Levon Ter-Petrosyan (LTP) had not made that extremely ridiculous decision to accept Heydar Aliyev’s “call for a ceasefire” (back in May of 1994), then the Armenian freedom fighters who by that time were destroying the opposing Azerbaijani forces and were quickly advancing towards Baku, would easily have arrived there within two to three weeks. As a result, Azerbaijan would have become an extra territory attached to the newly liberated Armenian province of Artsakh. This would’ve certainly been the correct thing to do, because after all, it was the Azerbaijanis who started that particular war by attempting to commit a genocide against the Armenians of Artsakh as well as against the former Armenian population of Azerbaijan. Furthermore, as an additional territory included within the Artsakh Republic, there would be no terrorist state of Azerbaijan today to continuously commit acts of aggression (on a weekly basis) against both Artsakh and Armenia.
The combination of today’s Artsakh Republic Defense Army and Armenia’s Army can actually do a lot more than only being capable of halting an Azerbaijani military attack. In an all-out war, they easily have the capability to knock out Azerbaijan’s oil pipelines with their missiles. If that were to happen, Azerbaijan’s economy would be in total ruin and it would no longer have the strength nor determination to continue fighting. It would call for a ceasefire, just like it did back in the four-day war of April, 2016. As the Armenians began to win that war and were just about to advance into Azerbaijani territory, what did Ilham Aliyev do? He immediately called for a ceasefire. And again, for a second time, the leadership of Armenia ridiculously accepted this Azerbaijani “ceasefire.”