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Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned a small group of lawmakers last week that his department is tracking the possibility that Azerbaijan could soon invade Armenia, according to two people familiar with the conversation.

Azerbaijiani President Ilham Aliyev has previously called on Armenia to open a “corridor” along its southern border, linking mainland Azerbaijan to an exclave that borders Turkey and Iran. Aliyev has threatened to solve the issue “by force.”

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Would you like Armenian genocide to go with your Palestinian genocide? We are having a 2-for-1 sale on classic Muslim genocides this month.

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      2 years ago

      Just going to pass over the Ukrainian genocide?

      Sure does seem like everyone’s trying to go to war at once.

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    2 years ago

    Nobody really cares about Armenia, so this issue has flown under the radar in the past month:

    On 19–20 September 2023 Azerbaijan initiated a military offensive in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region which ended with the surrender of the self-declared Republic of Artsakh and the disbandment of its armed forces. Prior to this offensive, Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but governed and populated by ethnic Armenians, had a population of nearly 120,000. Faced with threats of genocide and ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan, over 100,400 ethnic Armenians, nearly the entire current population of Nagorno-Karabakh,[6] had fled by the end of September 2023.[2][3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_Armenians

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    2 years ago

    Azerbaijan and Turkey are monitoring the west’s reaction to what Israel is doing before going ahead. Turkey has been such a good Western alley lately really provided help at pivotal moments. What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.

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    2 years ago

    Wars and rumors of wars.

    I feel like that even if you don’t believe in the apocalypse, we’re living in the end times.

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      “Wars and rumors of wars” is like “a day that ends in Y.” It has never not been applicable.