Artsakh officials have entreated the international community to recognize war crimes committed by the Azerbaijani military against civilian populations in Artsakh as a full week since Azerbaijani forces launched a deadly, large-scale attack along the entire Line of Contact and beyond dra
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It’s indeed wonderful news that the Artsakh military forces are finally launching missiles at military facilities, located in Azerbaijan’s major cities. However, in addition to that, it’s time to go for the knockout, by launching missiles at Azerbaijan’s extremely vital oil pipelines. Once and for all, those oil pipelines need to be demolished, which would severely and entirely damage Azerbaijan.
I agree, and many others surely do too. Because the OSCE has urged restraint from all parties (that’s cringingly laughable), the Armenian Stronghold has withheld itself from directly targeting civilian targets, so the next best thing is to attack the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyan Oil Pipeline, which is nearby Artsakh. Armenian missile strikes against logistical networks, in Azerbaijan, shouldn’t be limited to the oil pipeline though, utility sources should that provide logistical support should also be eliminated or damaged.
For a sophisticated high-tech nation, Armenia’s information war is surprisingly weak willed. Both Turkey and Azerbaijan have inundated the internet with slanderous lies, whether it be the Khojaly hoax, or Armenian Genocide Denialism.
Maybe, they’ve withheld from attacking the pipeline, because they don’t want to lose sympathetic endorsements from Western Countries that benefit from the pipeline; also, they don’t want to let Azerbaijan use it as a propaganda tool, and ad hominem red herring. But, I agree that it’s time to pound the oil pipeline with missiles, and thereby stop the oil flow. That way, Countries that are disinterested might start cracking down upon Baku, Azerbaijan, with more than lip service.
Although our mortal enemy, Azerbaijan, persistently bombs civilian targets in Stepanakert (as well as in other towns of Artsakh), I would never wish for our Artsakh military forces to “directly target civilian targets” in Azerbaijan (I’m sure you feel the same way too, as does Artsakh’s President Harutyunyan). Fighting a war, should never involve military attacks against innocent civilians.
In terms of Azerbaijan’s oil pipelines, it’s quite obvious that President Harutyunyan does not want to have his military forces fire missiles at them (at least for the time being) in order to not upset those particular European countries who obtain oil from Azerbaijan. And yet, these are the same countries (along with the USA) who are in favor of Artsakh giving up, and “returning back to being a part of Azerbaijan.” Therefore, President Harutyunyan should indeed have his military forces demolish those Azerbaijani oil pipelines as soon as possible. Furthermore, by demolishing those oil pipelines, it will also prevent Azerbaijan’s dear friend, Israel, from obtaining Azerbaijani oil. As a result of its oil pipelines being demolished (and therefore having no more oil to sell), the Azerbaijanis will no longer have so much money to buy all those highly sophisticated Israeli military weapons, which are being used to launch terrorist attacks against Stepanakert and Shushi, as well as being used to kill Armenian soldiers.