“...Going to have to go with “The US is busy and unavailable to help,” on this one...”
Which is fine and understandable, but the fact that on every one of these threads thus far, someone has felt the need to chime in with “not our problem!” (and quite often long before anyone in the threat has even REMOTELY suggested the idea of US involvement), has started to make me wonder if that, for some of the “not our problem!” peanut gallery, the: “not our problem!” is less about the spectre of (imagined) US involvement, and more a case of: “I resent the fact that I keep seeing this board get cluttered up with threads about people I really don’t give so much as two shits about?”
It really isn’t our problem though - Russia is currently supporting Armenia with weapons and logistics and intelligently is using it as yet another way to test weapons against NATO equipment thanks to Turkey propping up Azerbaijan. Also worth noting that Russia has in the last 48 hours forced a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Again, I’m not seeing that this is actually our problem, I’m not seeing that us entering the conflict is a good idea or even necessary; in fact, since Russia seems to be dealing with the problem, I don’t see how getting involved there would be anything but a bad idea.
The very title of this thread is suggesting US involvement. Also it’s part of being the US. When it comes to international kerfuffles the world takes 2 opinions at the same time:
why isn’t the US helping
how dare the US interfere
And of course it doesn’t bother the rest of the world that those are mutually exclusive. One way or the other the US is wrong and that’s OK with them. Meanwhile we need to pick our battles and acknowledge that some parts of the world are just screwed up and they need to get their own stuff worked out.