Posted on 09/19/2023 12:24:53 PM PDT by McGruff
The United States is engaging in diplomatic outreach after Azerbaijan launched "anti-terrorist activities" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, adding that the incident was particularly dangerous.
A senior U.S. State Department official said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was likely to get involved in the next 24 hours in the diplomatic engagement already under way on the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Blinken discussed the situation and stated the need for de-escalation, Interfax reported, citing the Armenian government.
Azerbaijan launched military action in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a step that could presage a new war in the volatile area but which Baku said was necessary to restore constitutional order and drive out Armenian military formations.
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God help us.
I was actually involved in this a while back. Had a nuclear physicist friend, originally Armenian, who had converted to Judaism and moved from Moscow to the US. He was trying to find a lawyer for the Armenians, and I did a little looking here in Israel. Nothing came of it. But I had thought that Putin determined in favor of the Azerbaijanis, awarding them the natural gas pipeline, and told the Armenians to get the f@#$$ out of Nagorno-Karabakh and take their thousand-year-old churches with them. Looks like that was not the end of it, though.
Britain had centuries of experience being a colonial power and they gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the various tribes and cultures and peoples inhabiting the world and their historic grievances and hatreds of each other.
We decided we could do this better than Britain (and France) at the end of WWII so we’ve basically been playing global referee/ policeman/ busybody/ for about 78 years, max.
And naturally we know nothing about any of these peoples while at the same time we are convinced that we can teach the world to sing in perfect harmony because dopes never know the limits of their power.
This problem will solve itself as the United States collapses from the internal rot that our ruling class has fostered and ignored while they bankrupt the country from playing Global Empire.
I'm sure he'll work out arms deals with both sides. We have to keep our economic growth going, don't we?
Ah, some erudition and sanity injected into this discussion!
Now that is a very astute observation. Well done, sir, and bravo.
Just a small quibble. In my humble experience, while formerly colonized peoples often resented what they thought of as British arrogance, they were pragmatists enough to appreciate the institutional legacy of the British left to them. And in practical terms it did stand them in good stead mostly. Just as it did us.
Nobody ever appreciated anything about the French. And don’t get me started on the Belgians.
In SE Asia, during and following WWII, they adored Americans, whom they contrasted with the British (and sometimes Dutch) thusly: “You Americans respected us and treated us like equals” while the British “in their silly hats and socks” talked down to them. My, how things have changed now. It breaks my heart for my country. But it is what it is.
Again, kudos and well said. Hat (silly or not) off to you.
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