Posted on 04/06/2022 9:20:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
If given an opportunity, Erdoğan will take Armenia as a small step in his Ottoman dream. Russia’s difficulties in Ukraine must have him thinking it would not be so difficult.
“Had Ukraine adhered to the Minsk Agreement, Russia wouldn’t have intervened.”
Patent nonsense. Putin from his start in power has voiced his opposition to an independent Ukraine and at every opportunity he has disparaged their right to exist as a nation.
Putin’s path to crowning himself the Tsar of a resurgent Soviet empire necessarily ran through Ukraine and he’d be invading it regardless of whatever the Ukrainians did or did not do. Putin has similarly denounced the rights of the Baltic states to exist and it wasn’t that many years ago he was openly threatening to invade and annex Estonia.
(Just to be clear, Estonia had nothing to do with the Minsk Agreement.)
Putin’s buddy Lukashenko seems to have realized that Belarus was likely high on Putin’s list (and may still be) ergo Lukashenko has held his forces in reserve. Probably because he estimates he may need his military to oust the Russians should they suddenly pivot from conquering Ukraine to conquering Belarus.
Don’t be deceived by the supposed ‘conservatives’. At least a few of them are Russian trolls who are here to spread Moscow’s narratives.
https://frtrollwatch.blogspot.com/2022/04/troll-watch-for-4-april-2022.html
Turks also hate Kurds. So should the Kurds, the Armenians, Israel and the Azerbaijanis (who have just used Putin to evict Armenians from an energy-rich Armenian enclave so they can build a pipeline) be allies? And can Turkey play, too? Would they want to with the Kurds in the coalition? Would the Armenians want to with the Azerbs and the Turks in the coalition?
Under the Soviet system, Nagorno Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian area, was some kind of autonomous area within Azerbaijan. An Azerbaijani district on the other side of Armenia was officially part of Azerbaijan. Why Nagorno Karabakh wasn’t officially part of Armenia, or why a corridor connecting it to Armenia wasn’t established, only the Soviet officials probably knew. It has been a bone of contention ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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