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How Azerbaijani lobbying influences American academia
In the summer of 2000, Svante Cornell drove a motorcycle from Azerbaijan to Turkey to deliver the first barrel of Caspian Sea oil along the newly inaugurated Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. His motorcycle was sponsored by Azercell, Azerbaijan’s chief telecommunications company. A photo from the trip features a smiling Cornell carrying a bright blue barrel of Azerbaijani crude in his sidecar through dry mountainous landscape.Â
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ARMENIA SHOULD STOP WHINING ABOUT WHAT AZERBAIJAN IS SUCCESSFULLY DOING AND OUTSMART THEM BY DOING IT BETTER! THAT WILL ONLY HAPPEN IF THE DAMN CORRUPTION STOPS, ARMENIANS WORK TOGETHER, AND USE THEIR COLLECTIVE INTELLECT THAT WE HAVE INDIVIDUALLY BUT DISAPPEARS WHEN MORE THAN ONE ARMENIAN IS IN THE ROOM.
Well said Garo
If we only get rid of those Russians, Americans will embrace us. We are Christian. We are European. Christians of the Western world will help us as soon as we free Armenia from Russian oppression. Nikol didn’t go far enough. We need a real color revolution to save Armenia.
There are more Christians in Africa than in Europe. The EU and NATO are not Christian. And Armenia is not European. Armenians and Georgians are Middle Easterners whose only connection to Europe is Russia’s conquest of them.
We Armenians ARE Europeans! Europeans ARE Christians! We just have to unite and convince our European brothers that Armenians are Euroepans and they Europeans are Christians. Once we do that Europe and America will quickly come and save Armenia from Russia, Turkey and Iran. You just wait and see. It will happen. I am praying for it everyday. It will happen! Armenia will be free from Russia and Turks and Iranians. Yes it will!!!
Let us learn diplomacy from them !
There is nothing to learn here other than that the Anglo-American-Jewish empire needs the services of Azerbaijan. Europe and Israel need Baku’s oil and gas, as an alternative to Russian energy. They are also trying to turn Azerbaijan into a staging ground against Iran. Let’s therefore stop wasting time trying to “learn diplomacy” in a viper’s nest like Washington and instead start lobbying officials in Moscow and Tehran. An Armenia in the south Caucasus only serves the interests of Russia and Iran, not Europe, not the United States.
Armenians don t know diplomacy neither do they know politics, they only know how to build useless churches.
This reminds me of the Lybian dictator Quddafi, then George Bush’s Secretary of State, who was in Libya for an official visit with her delegation. She played a “Happy Birthday” melody on a piano with her manicured long fingers for him.
Qadaffi was killed in a water ditch after a few months by his people. Condy was lecturing for her students at Stanford Department Of Political Sciences with her old charming smile.
Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded over fifteen honorary doctorates.
I remember in the mid-1990s, at about the same time as Thomas de Waal was starting his career as a pro-Azeri supposed “Caucasus expert”, trying to drum up financing interest in a film about the Armenian Genocide and surviving evidence of it in the form of physical remains in Turkey and Azerbaijan. “This subject is of no interest to the London Armenian community” was the reply I got from one funding organisation. The AGBU also refused to give financial help, but “generously” offered the loan of camera equipment provided they were given joint copyright of everything filmed using it. (Which is rather like loaning someone a pen and expecting to jointly own everything written using it!) In the 30 years that have passed I have come to realise that most Armenians actually do not want non-Armenians to become experts on Armenia, and almost everything is limited in aspiration to “by Armenians for Armenians” output. I also doubt de Wall ever got a “this subject is of no interest to Azerbaijan” reply.
Ask diasporan activists on the front lines and they’ll tell you: the US won’t embrace (what’s left of) Armenia until it’s fully absorbed by Turkey/Az. Again, ask diasporan activists on the front lines and they’ll tell you: US academia has been deliberately anti-Armenian for a long time. It’s not as if attempts have not been made.
S. Frederick Starr is a big opponent of Armenia and has been for a very long time.
He is terrible.
This is the beginning of his article in The National Interest 25 years ago.
I can’t access the entire thing.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42896934
I have the entire article, David. Let me know where and how I could post the article for public view.
Saudi Arabia announced a few days ago a cut of its daily oil production by a million barrels per day. But guess what happened to the crude oil price? It fell… Apparently the world demand is not increasing. So where does that leave the Azerbaijan “oil” narrative? They are not going to increase production.
why am I left out of this diatribe? I created the BTC bike ride; Svante came along as a guest. Give credit where credit is due..
Svante Cornell, the CACI are a perfect example of how much more advanced, through these down low efforts to influence, Armenia/Armenians are not playing in the same league.
The Israeli influence, via Ilan Berman, Brenda Shaffer and their like, is disgusting, but is in the interest of Israel, not Armenia.
The comment above about lobbying Iran and Russia could mine some good, possibly.
The underfunding of the Armenian Army and the immature, if any, diplomacy/lobbying by Armenia, are glaring apparent, and negligent in the time from day one but more since 2020.
We need to step it up.
They learned from Armenians.