Posted on 08/14/2025 12:01:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
'If it were not for the Trump administration, Azerbaijan would have attacked, and we would have had severe instability in the region.'
When President Donald Trump sat between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan last week, few people realized the significance of the meeting and the months of negotiations that took place beforehand to get two hostile nations to come together at the White House.
Just weeks before the president and his team stepped in to maintain stability in the South Caucasus earlier this year, a full-scale invasion of Armenia’s southernmost province, Syunik, appeared imminent, according to Dr. Nerses Kopalyan, an Armenian-American political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kopalyan informally advised and supported negotiations between the Trump administration and Armenia and spoke to The Daily Wire this week about the agreement that was signed last Friday.
In March, Trump administration officials were briefed on U.S. intelligence that Azerbaijan was planning a major offensive against Armenia, reigniting hostilities two years after Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing campaign uprooted thousands of Armenians from their ancestral homeland in Nagorno-Karabakh, Kopalyan said. The American intelligence assessment sparked immediate action from the Trump administration. Later that month, the president’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, opened up negotiations with Azerbaijan as the White House sought to prevent another armed conflict.
“Once U.S. intelligence had that information, the Trump administration decided that they had to step in and put diplomatic pressure on Azerbaijan not to attack, and then initiate diplomacy to find a solution,” said Kopalyan, who previously wrote about the significance of Trump’s Armenia-Azerbaijan deal. “So if it were not for the Trump administration, Azerbaijan would have attacked, and we would have had severe instability in the region.”
The challenge before the Trump administration at the beginning of the talks in March and April was complicated.
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“In March, Trump administration officials were briefed on U.S. intelligence that Azerbaijan was planning a major offensive against Armenia, reigniting hostilities two years after Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing campaign uprooted thousands of Armenians from their ancestral homeland in Nagorno-Karabakh, Kopalyan said.”
Not MAGA? But if you can stop bloodshed with a simple non military proposal? Not sure why the Europeans aren’t doing this.
Not an end, but hopefully the start of diplomacy instead of aggressive diplomacy, if you know what I mean. 😉
Isn’t that what the UN is for?
Make themselves useful for a change.
Trump made them an offer they couldn’t refuse?
No one respects the UN by now
Obama and Biden had our diplomats concentrate on attacking countries that were against homosexuality.
Trump has competent diplomats focused on real issues.
Bravo!
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