Artsakh has been under blockade by Azerbaijan for over a week, causing a shortage of food, medicine and other necessities and sparking international condemnation.
Azerbaijan blocked the Lachin Corridor, the sole route connecting Artsakh and Armenia, on December 12. The corridor is typically used to transport 400 tons of food and medicine from Armenia to Artsakh every day, according to Artsakh authorities. Shelves at grocery stores and pharmacies in Artsakh are emptying out, as the region faces a shortage of kitchen staples like flour and sugar, nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables as well as essential medicines.
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Turks are cowards, they only attack small country like Armenia, they don’t dare confront a county of their level.
That’s very true. They are opportunist cowards like the hyenas in the wild. They use very derogatory rhetoric with threats against much smaller and weaker Armenia but when it comes to dealing with equal or higher power, like Russia for example, their terrorist-in-chief Islamo-fascist Er-dog-an goes on a pilgrimage to Moscow, throws down his prayer rug, kneels down and kisses Putin’s feet, and asks for forgiveness. Comes back hone, recites a verse from their religion to his illiterate peasant followers and is hailed as a hero! That’s the Tricky Turkish way! No guts! Full of manufactured glory!
We should have been prepared for this long time ago!
How many time do we need to get screwed by the turks and the russians to understand that we cannot rely on turks to act like human beings or the russians to act as an Ally!
What’s puzzling to me is why Azerbaijan needs any financial aid from anyone in the first place when they have oil & gas revenues in billions of dollars annually? Whatever aid they receive must be bribe money. I also believe the US and France, and others for that matter, would have provided direct military assistance to the Armenians but can’t because Armenia is still a member of the dysfunctional Russian-led CSTO which is more or less a failed Russian version of the NATO alliance. But unfortunately, unlike NATO member states, CSTO member states are mostly run by dictators and they have closer ties with our enemies than they do with their fellow Armenian CSTO member state. This blockade by Azerbaijani state agents disguised as environmentalists is an Azerbaijani ploy and a trap to drag the Armenians into yet another war with Azerbaijan, with full Turkish backing, to try to get militarily what they have realized they can’t get legally. They think with Russia completely bogged down in Ukraine this is their opportunity to do so. We must not fall into their trap. Ironically, one positive outcome from this blockade is that if the international community thought Armenians can live under Azerbaijani control by means of some fake peace deal, they are now convinced that is impossibility. If Azerbaijan’s chicken-hawk Aliyev can try to starve Armenians to get what he wants in front of their eyes, they can only imagine what he is capable of doing if he has anything to say about the future of 120K Armenians in Artsakh.
BRAVO! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH HALF A BRAIN!
The verbal support from the US and France is nice, but how about some concrete actions. For example for every day of the blockade reduce US aid to Azerbaijan by 5 million dollars and shift it Artsakh for humanitarian purposes. And the EU could put price caps on Azeri oil and gas exports if the blockade continues another 48 hours. If there is no concrete response to criminal behavior, then it emboldens the criminal to push the envelope further. Although the military of Artsakh and Armenia are well within their rights to forcibly remove these so called activists, doing so would be a pretext for the Turks and Azeris to accelorate their ethnic cleansing goals of Artsakh AND Armenia. And the sad fact is that Armenia with 3 million people have no chance against oil rich Azerbaijan with 10 million people and Turkey with 80 million people and the second largest military in NATO. And the sad truth is that nobody, including Russia, truly has Armenia’s back.
MINUES 5 MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY FOR BLOCKADING ARTSAKH? WAKE UP! YOU ARE DREAMING! WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT WHEN THEY ARE RECEIVING OIL GAS AND MINERAL CONTRACTS FROM AZERBAIJAN? YOU HAVE ONE THING RIGHT. ARMENIA DOES NOT HAVE 3 MILLION PEOPLE. IT HAS 1 MILLION PEOPLE LEFT. 2 MILLION MOVED TO GLENDALE. ARMENIA AND ARTSAKH HAVE NO POWER PROFIT OR POPULATION. THEY ARE BUGS WHO CAN BE SQUASHED IN 2 SECONDS. YOU CAN THANK CORRUPTION AND ZERO NATION PLANNING FOR THAT.
If they are so ‘oil rich’ they wouldn’t care about 5 million dollars, would they.
It seems more Armenians are acknowledging the reality that Russia isn’t the kind of ally to Armenia that the USA currently is to Israel. Something that many Armenians in Armenia especially preferred to pretend otherwise, deny and overlook and should have been better understood and accepted however unpleasant to acknowledge years ago.
This quote: “We will continue our struggle and will never be a tool to put pressure on the Russian Federation or damage its reputation, because we are sure that the Russian Federation has the irrevocable will to solve the problems diplomatically and through dialogue.” I agree violence isn’t going to solve anything. However, Putin is in bed with Aliyev and Erdogan at the expense of all Armenians. When do we wake up? Maybe take a stronger stance and make our voices heard around the world? I want to do something. I don’t know what that might be. Even if I could do anything given my age and health. I donate and sign petitions. That’s not enough.
The Ukraine is overshadowing many other nations needing recognition and help. Putin’s plan to bring back the old world. He needs to get a grip and move forward with the rest of humanity.
ARMENIA IS RUSSIA’S TOY DOLL. SOMETIMES IT GETS LOVE FROM RUSSIA. OTHER TIMES IT GETS THROWN ON THE FLOOR AND STEPPED ON. ARMENIA MUST DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND BE AN IRON STATE. 100% MILITARY. THAT IS THE WAY TO SURVIVE AND COMMAND RESPECT IN THAT GEOGRAPHIC GUTTER. TOO BAD ARMENIA IS RUN BY AMATEURS AND CROOKS.
Not one reply addressed the large elephant in the room. We all expect or ask for outside assistance, correct? Yet where is the one Nation that is supposed to protect Armenian’s of Artsahk? Yes ,that nation is Armenia. The leadership chose to abandon our Artsahk, choosing instead to continue blame the Russians for not stepping in as peace keepers.
Until Armenia shows the resolve to care for all is Armenians citizens and lands, do not expect the rest of the world to care.
Our troops should never have been removed from protecting the borders. The Pashinyan regime also gave to our enemies locations of land mines, which were placed defensively, to protect our very borders. Our POW’s are still being held. I could go on and on.
So if we want change, then we have to look in the mirror and replace the leadership at the top.
ARMENIAN TROOPS WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN 0.00006 SECONDS BY THE TURKS WHO ARE THE WORLD’S 13TH STRONGEST MILITARY. ARMENIA IS RANKED 98. LIKE MANY, YOU ARE DELUSIONAL. RETURN TO REALITY.
Really? How about the ultra useless loser Pashinyan’s responsibility in all of this? The status quo was maintained for 30 plus years. UNTILL the loser of Armenia “got elected”. Yes the old regimes were exceptionally corrupt in their own right and Armenia did need a political more uniting change. But isolating Artsakh and even losing some of Armenia proper as a result of this most incompetent useless loser is NOT MY IDEA OF NEEDED CHANGE. Pashinyan is also responsibile. DO NOT EVER IGNORE THAT.
31 YEARS OF NATION BUILDING, NATION STRENGTHENING, AND NATION ARMING MONEY WAS MISMANAGED, STOLEN, AND WASTED BY ARMENIAN CROOKS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!! THE TURKS OR AZERIS DID NOT MISMANAGE, STEAL, AND WASTE THAT MONEY. WE DID. ARMENIANS. NOW, LIKE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF ARMENIAN HISTORY, WE ARE AGAIN VICTIMS, ON OUR KNEES, IN FRONT OF MICROPHONES, HOLDING PAPER DEMANDS LIKE KHRIMYAN HAYRIK, BEGGING AND PLEADING WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR HELP. ARMENIA AND ARMENIANS KEEP DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT. WE ARE DELUSIONAL AND TRULY STUPID AND PATHETIC. THE ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT IS FILLED WITH SHORT-SIGHTED, SELFISH, AND GREEDY DIPLOMATIC AMATEURS. MY 12 YEAR OLD GRAND DAUGHTER COULD HAVE BUILT A BETTER ARMENIA IN 31 YEARS WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. NO WONDER KIRK KERKORIAN SENT HIS OWN MANAGERS TO OVERSEE HIS MULTI MILLION DOLLAR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. HE DID NOT TRUST THE ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT OR ITS PEOPLE.
Don’t read too much into that ‘Globalfirepower’ website. It is rubbish. It uses quantity rather then quality and does not care about reality. It does not take most things into consideration. North Korea had the world’s strongest Navy for 3 years before they changed it. It counts tug boats and other non sense as equal to a corvette or aircraft carrier. Yeah also no one cares who owned what when, the world can’t be restructured to fit your old kingdom glory days. Get real and get with the times. You don’t need land to be a wealthy state. Do business and stop demanding things. A 50 year old Kingdom ain’t that great either. We had like 7 of those or more. Also Ararat guy needs to chill. Insults don’t really work.
Lahmacun is NOT Turkish – It is Lebanese
The world does not need to be restructured to fit our demands. The Turkish minds need to be readjusted and restructured to see facts as they were instead of blindly accepting the institutional brainwashing they have been getting for the last hundred plus years.
Speaking of chilling, I suggest you direct that remark to your terrorist-in-chief Er-dog-an who like an infant throws temper tantrums ranting and raving about anything and everything he can’t tolerate and is displeasing to his ears.
As for insults, once again, I suggest you redirect that remark to Turkish mullah Er-dog-an disguised in suit & tie who refers to the descendants of the Armenian Genocide victims as ‘remnants of the sword’ and considers being called an Armenian offensive and derogatory.
Maybe I should refresh, Dementia-stricken readers, on how Nikol Pashinyan, became Prime SINISTER of Armenia. During his, Tuxov Tetoum Keloukhov movement, at the Freedom Square he screamed top of his lung, ” Either I will become the next Prime Minister of Armenia, or Armenia WILL NOT have prime Minister”. Now, that’s what you call, Power Grab. Sooner this, clown and his circus troupe, vanish the better for Armenia.
If we can learn to move forward on ALL fronts, we have it made.
Hello friends, I am half turkish, half armenian grew up in Turkey as grandson of converted genocide orphans. Now I live in the US. Although I cannot find myself a place in neither community I want you to know I pray for people of Artsakh. I condemn Azerbaijan who uses oil and gas money to buy guns and make an army to silence people and try to torture the weak. This is not humane. I wish there was a way to help people of Artsakh except making comments here. Maybe I can reach out to our senator here but whoever has the money will do what they want in this world.