Posted on 10/10/2020 6:55:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Minutes after the truce took force, the Armenian military accused Azerbaijan of shelling the area near the town of Kapan in southeastern Armenia, killing one civilian.
The Azerbaijani military, in turn, accused Armenia of striking the Terter and Agdam regions of Azerbaijan with missiles and then attempting to launch offensives in the Agdere-Terter and the Fizuli-Jabrail areas. Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov charged that “conditions for implementing the humanitarian cease-fire are currently missing” amid the continuing Armenian shelling.
The latest outburst of fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces began Sept. 27 and left hundreds of people dead in the biggest escalation of the decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh since a separatist war there ended in 1994. The region lies in Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia.
Since the start of the latest fighting, Armenia said it was open to a cease-fire, while Azerbaijan insisted that it should be conditional on the Armenian forces’ withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that the failure of international efforts to negotiate a political settlement left it no other choice but to resort to force.
Speaking in an address to the nation Friday hours before the cease-fire deal was reached, the Azerbaijani president insisted on his country's right to reclaim its territory by force after nearly three decades of international talks that “haven’t yielded an inch of progress."
Fighting with heavy artillery, warplanes and drones has engulfed Nagorno-Karabakh, with both sides accusing each other of targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure.
According to the Nagorno-Karabakh military, 404 of its servicemen have been killed since Sept. 27. Azerbaijan hasn’t provided details on its military losses. Scores of civilians on both sides also have been killed.
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Sounds like a tactical truce to rest and resupply more than a lasting one. The conflict is likely the result of longstanding issues that finally came to a head, combined with plenty of buildup on both sides to prep for the big game. Talking and fighting could go on for a while.
Not our problem.
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[Not our problem.
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It is not our problem militarily, but the US can do a lot of good for the Armenians (who are Christian people, the oldest Christian nation in the world) by simply signaling Russia that they have a green light to run over the Azeris without risking international sanctions, while simultaneously condemning Erdogan’s Turkey. A formal recognition of the independence of Artsakh would also go a long way and costs nothing.
Not our problem, but my sympathy is with Christian Armenia (backed by Russia) rather than Muslin Azerbaijan (backed by Turkey).
My sympathies are the same as yours. And that’s as far as it goes.
Not one American boot on the ground there.
Not one.
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The ethnic cleansing operation by the Azeris and stoked by the Turkish dictator goes on.
Israel should and probably is sending aid to the Armenians on the QT.
I agree. But any weapons shipments will have to arrive overland, from Iran. Probably be sourced in China, and arranged by Russia.
Logistics. Now there’s the rub. Perhaps all that can be sent at this time is intelligence.
It may get much worse before it gets at all better.
Proxy war gets coopted by proxors. Cluster f@#$ at 11.
The entire flare up is the continuation of the attempted escalation in East Ukraine and the Belarusian coup.
The only purpose it to force the Russian involvement and scream about ‘unchecked Russian aggression’.
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