An Azeirbayan military leader occupies ethnic Armenian territory at the end of WWI. Britain gives it the ok. Azeirbayan says they’re declaring it part of their country. The USSR gives it the ok, since Armenia also has an Azerbaijani enclave within their territory. The USSR fucking dies.

Azeirbayan and Armenia start harassing each other for those territories. Since the Armenian enclave (Karabakh) doesn’t want to be ethnically cleansed, they end up declaring independence. There’s an increasingly hotter cold war between Armenia and Azeirbayan, with Russia warning them both not to attack each other. Russia invades Ukraine, gets stuck in an unending fucking stupid conflict.

Azeirbayan decides it’s a good moment to retake control of Karabakh, and attacks them. Neither Armenia nor Karabakh can stop Azeirbayan. Karabakh surrenders. Azeirbayan “invites” ethnic Armenians in Karabakh to leave their home. Karabakh gets ethnically cleansed.

Looks like there’s a bad ending to the story, but an ending nonetheless.

Azeirbayan now wants to connect their territory to their ethnic enclave in Armenia, therefore threatening military action <- We’re currently here.