The Republics of Armenia and Artsakh have declared martial law after officials say Azeri forces launched a deadly, large-scale attack along the entire Line of Contact.
“We have declared several times that we don’t support war, but we are ready for it,” said Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, stressing the responsibility of this latest aggression on Azeri leadership. “We didn’t want war. The war was imposed on us, and it is our duty to defend our homeland and families," he continu
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As usual, Russia who calls itself an ally of Armenia will call on both sides to de-escalate the conflict, even though Azerbaijan was clearly the aggressor. Thank you Russia
I don’t care about who condemns who. It’s not like it does anything anyway. Everybody demonizes Russia no matter what they do. As long as they continue cooperating with us militarily and prevent a Turkish invasion, then it is fine to appear neutral. The fighting is between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, not the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
I would rather we not focus on cheap diplomatic statements and focus on the actual reality on the ground. They have already been cooperating with us.
I deeply enjoyed watching those Azerbaijani tanks get blown up by the Armenian military forces. Those extremely well-trained Armenian soldiers are really clobbering the crap out of the Azerbaijani military, which also includes four thousand mercenary soldiers that were brought in by Turkey. Surprisingly, the military weapons that the Azerbaijanis have been using over the past day, have not been Israeli; they’ve been Turkish military weapons; however, these newly acquired Turkish military weapons have not improved their performance as compared to their Israeli military weapons.
What will Prime Minister Pashinyan do, when the Azerbaijanis immediately call for a cease-fire as soon as the Armenian military forces begin to advance into Azerbaijani territory? It will indeed be a failure if Pashinyan accepts this “cease-fire” from Azerbaijan. Without losing any territory, the Azerbaijanis will simply regroup and continue on with their skirmishes until they feel confident enough to launch another all-out terrorist attack. Therefore, if Pashinyan is at least a little bit smart, he will not accept any kind of “cease-fire” from Aliyev, and instead, will have his military forces advance towards Baku, while grabbing as much territory as possible (there still remain several Armenian lands, which are occupied by Azerbaijan); and along the way, destroying Azerbaijan’s oil pipelines, which would severely damage its economy. After that, the Azerbaijanis will be in no position to put up any kind of fight against the Armenians. Therefore, as a result of those remaining Armenian lands being liberated, combined with a heavily damaged Azerbaijan, this would finally be the end of Azerbaijan’s campaign of terrorism against Artsakh and Armenia.
Destroying Azerbaijan’s oil pipelines definitely would be beneficial, since the world would lose interest in it. This would also dampen Azeri-Turkish relations, which would provide Armenia with some relief.
One last comment, It is better if the Russians don’t publicly say anything, since NATO would accuse them of being intrusive, despite that their fellow member Turkey is sticking its nose in this. Diplomatic condemnations would draw the ire of the EU, UN, NATO, and many other organizations.
It is better for them to just support us on the down low.
Your comment hasn’t aged well. 4 days later, Turkey has shot an Armenian plane over Armenian air space, over 80 Armenian servicemen have died, and Russia is doing what ?
I don’t see why so many Armenians can’t see that Russia doesn’t give a dam about Armenia and would readily watch us be slaughtered without bating an eyelid. Whatever inaction Russia exhibits is always brushed over by some Armenians “well their just being diplomatic”, “they are secretly on our side they just don’t like to openly support us”. We need to stop being in denial about Russian inaction.
No, my comment has aged just fine, Greg. Russia has continued to deliver weapons through Iran and even reportedly has PMCs in Artsakh. If you want someone to blame, then look no further than the western allies that some Armenians have been looking to for the past two years. Their obsession with undermining Iran and Russia through arming and providing diplomatic cover to Turkey has emboldened the likes of Erdogan, and their monster has gone insane. They seem powerless to stop him.
However you are right on one thing, in that Putin’s failure to disavow and condemn Erdogan has me feeling he is either compromised or just plain delusional.