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if Azerbaijan invades actual Armenia proper, then that’s a different story.
The possibility of that happening is literally the linked article.
Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Always has been.
Internationally recognized, fine. The population was about 120,000. 100,000 fled to Armenia after the attack. I’m sure they care about international lines on a map.
Always has been is categorically false. Armenia has been a country for about a thousand years before the ones who drew the lines on your map.
The “Christians being persecuted” crowd only care about Target selling shirts with rainbows.
They were actually the first Christian nation in 301 AD/CE. Not that state religion is great, but it’s an interesting history given they were sandwiched between the Romans and the Parthians at the time and were pretty much a football between the Romans and whoever was nextdoor throughout the entirety of the Roman empire. If they aligned with “nextdoor” the Romans often ignored them as long as they didn’t allow armies from nextdoor through. And when the Romans had their own puppet king over there, well, bully for them.
Not much has changed. Now they’re sandwiched between Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Georgia, with Georgia being a Russian conduit at least militarily if not politically. And Turkey and Azerbaijan are effectively one and the same with Azerbaijian having a dash of Russian influence. That’s not a great place to be if you’re a tiny country served as an appetizer to the surrounding powers.
Anyway, welcome to my TED Talk.
What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.
F16s.
Which is yet another reason why the West will hang Armenia out to dry.
Turkey already endorsed a corridor between the two countries through the south of Armenia, immediately after the attack on Artsakh, literally 4 days, while 100,000 Armenians were fleeing.
Why would Armenia open this corridor voluntarily? Azerbaijan already pinky swore Artsakh wouldn’t be attacked. Erdogan knows how this will be solved, and it won’t be pen and paper.
They also have many of the pipelines that send oil/gas from that region to Europe. Hence the hand wringing and platitudes from the West rather than actual help. Aliyev knows this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gas_Corridor
And when Armenia had the gall to even hint at trying to break from under Russia’s thumb to the West, Aliyev got the ok from Russia to teach them a lesson.
Azerbaijian took Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh 8 days later, in spite of a prior Russian security agreement to prevent exactly that.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but Armenians aren’t muslims, they’re majority Christian.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115782
They were suspended by vote, then AFTER the vote results they said they had actually already quit. It was elementary school playground levels of “nuh uh” and within a year they tried to come back.
3·11 months agoThat’s certainly quotes around a lot of things I didn’t say. I admit I need to do a better job seeing past my own biases.
I also admit OPs posting pattern is materially irrelevant to the contents of the Washing Post article on its own. I was just pointing out a larger pattern within the c/worldnews community as a whole. In that context someone with an agenda can have influence.
But I’m not sure why I did. They seem like a nice person and post good faith articles. This was probably a misaimed shot on my part, true or not.
I didn’t attack the source. I just pointed out that someone posting more than most on lemmy could push a certain point of view using any and all sources if they cherry pick.
If this is a play on my username, I laughed.
I actually read most of Nightowl’s submissions for the reason you mention, to read outside my “narrative.” But they have an agenda and people should know that.
As far as I can tell, this prolifically posting account has literally never posted an article that wasn’t negative on Ukraine, and posts about 90% negative on the West in general. For whatever that’s worth.
9·11 months agoWhat’s the over under on how many days until he backtracks this wonderful idea? I’ll put it at 5. I choose over but only because I think that’s how long the coke and benzo binge will take to wear off.
With this headline Bloomberg seems to be implicitly (borderline explicitly) saying that the wealth loss is tied to the war in Ukraine. Here is the actual report this article is based on:
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-20230815-global-wealth-report-2023.html
No mention of Ukraine. The wealth loss is tied to inflation, appreciation of the dollar to other currencies, and losses in the financial sector.
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The fact that issuing this order publically is such an obvious BFLNN certainly raises the question, “Does Judge Cannon want to be removed from this case?”
Are there not… less publicly idiotic ways to do that?
I hope the January 6th trial moves quickly because she is absolutely going to delay this one as long as Trump wants, if not outright tank the case. Even if she’s removed it starts the clock all over again. But I do look forward to another absolute smackdown from the 11th circuit. The last one was brutal and a great read.
The F16 will be vulnerable but not completely useless, as implied by the other post.
It’s kind of bizarre. The original article says (in a very repetitive and long-winded way) Europe needs to step up its military spending and send more of their own troops to the eastern borders to be able to counter Russian aggression on their own in the face of a potentially unreliable US who may be more focused on China. I honestly don’t think the US would disagree here. Strong allies aren’t a bad thing.
Economically it argues (again, in very unnecessarily long wording) the US will make decisions regarding protecting itself from a rising China without concern for Europe.
My opinion, this is probably true, although Europe might want to be concerned about China in its own right. Again, I’m not convinced the US wouldn’t want strong economic partners either. This only gets into disagreement territory if the EU intends to partner with China to counter the US. That will go about as well as it did partnering with Russia for their energy dependence.
Bottom line the article makes just two arguments that I’m fairly sure the US would agree with, in an unnecessarily inflammatory way that does seem intended to drive a wedge between the US and EU. I’m not sure if they’re just being salty, just trying to use emotion to rile people up to get things done, or if their goal is the second argument, an economic wedge, in which case they’re arguing to tie themselves to another despot.
The F-35 has been operating over Syria for years against those supposedly infallible Russian AA defenses. So far the only thing that’s been able to hit them is a bird.
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