[Mr Radical]

So, we appear to have Israel supplying drones to Muslim Azerbaijan being used to kill Christian Armenians.

A different theater, I know, but remember the Ukrainian 'rebels' accusing the Ukrainian government of using guided munitions against civilians in Lugansk and Donetsk. At first I put this down to paranoia; but after a week of direct hits on buses at bus stops, I began to think there was something in that.

[onona]

Coming soon to a neighborhood near us.

[Jewbacca]

Azerbaijan is a secular Muslim nation with close ties to the USA and Israel.

They neighbor Iran (who they despise and the feeling is mutual) and act as a major counterbalance to Iran in the region.

[rmlew]

Azerbaijan is not a Muslim theocracy. It has been a long standing friend to the US and Israel and faces threats from Russia and Iran. This is not an Azeri invasion of Armenia. It is a border dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian area given to the Azerbainjani SSR.They fought a war over this 25 years ago. Most Azeris were ethnically cleansed, but the region remains contested.

20 years ago, I wrote a paper, where I suggested that this conflict would continue indefinitely until there was full ethnic cleansing and annexation. The paper was poorly received in an IR class, but I stand by my assertions. (My assessment of the long term prospects of Islamic terror relating to Chechnya and Circassia are even more depressing.)