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Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned a small group of lawmakers last week that his department is tracking the possibility that Azerbaijan could soon invade Armenia, according to two people familiar with the conversation.

Azerbaijiani President Ilham Aliyev has previously called on Armenia to open a “corridor” along its southern border, linking mainland Azerbaijan to an exclave that borders Turkey and Iran. Aliyev has threatened to solve the issue “by force.”

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    Would you like Armenian genocide to go with your Palestinian genocide? We are having a 2-for-1 sale on classic Muslim genocides this month.

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        Oh, I didn’t even know that. I assumed that they were Muslims from the region. Interesting that we haven’t heard anything from the “Christians are being persecuted” crowd about them.

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          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.

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      Just going to pass over the Ukrainian genocide?

      Sure does seem like everyone’s trying to go to war at once.

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      Sorry, I haven’t finished following the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar yet. Can I pay in installments?

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        I’m late on my Uighur payments

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    Nobody really cares about Armenia, so this issue has flown under the radar in the past month:

    On 19–20 September 2023 Azerbaijan initiated a military offensive in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region which ended with the surrender of the self-declared Republic of Artsakh and the disbandment of its armed forces. Prior to this offensive, Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but governed and populated by ethnic Armenians, had a population of nearly 120,000. Faced with threats of genocide and ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan, over 100,400 ethnic Armenians, nearly the entire current population of Nagorno-Karabakh,[6] had fled by the end of September 2023.[2][3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_Armenians

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      It’s because Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Always has been.

      Now, if Azerbaijan invades actual Armenia proper, then that’s a different story.

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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.

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          The possibility of that happening is literally the linked article.

          I know, it’s the title of the article, but I’ve seen many comments in recent weeks suggesting it’s already happened.

          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.

          Azerbaijan assured them they did not need to flee (for what it’s worth).

          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.

          This is true of almost every nation. Not excusing it, but nations get conquered and amalgamated. I hope we can stop doing that, but we can’t just magically reset things.

          Now, when it comes to Armenia, I think the borders could have been drawn better than they were after soviet collapse.

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    Azerbaijan and Turkey are monitoring the west’s reaction to what Israel is doing before going ahead. Turkey has been such a good Western alley lately really provided help at pivotal moments. What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.

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    Wars and rumors of wars.

    I feel like that even if you don’t believe in the apocalypse, we’re living in the end times.

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      “Wars and rumors of wars” is like “a day that ends in Y.” It has never not been applicable.