Azerbaijan has started a war of aggression against the Armenians of Artsakh. Azerbaijan has the open support of the Turkish government. The murderous and genocidal policies of Turkey that led to the extermination of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greeks Christians of Anatolia are being revived today. Just as Azerbaijan is waging aggressive war against Armenia (Nagorno Karabakh is rightfully a part of Armenia) Turkey has been threatening to do likewise against Greece.
The whole of the Christian world (East and West) is obligated to support the Armenians as much as possible. A repetition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is unthinkable. Some time ago, the government of Azerbaijan threatened to attack a nuclear power plant in Armenia. It appears that the Azerbaijani leadership is even less capable of rational thought than the leadership in Ankara.
The United States and Russia are both morally obligated to help the Armenians. The United States claims to support democracy while the Russians claim for themselves the sponsorship of Christianity. The Azerbaijanis appear to be another jihadist state making use of Syrian jihadists. Israel has taken an immoral position by inexplicably supporting Azerbaijan.
Syria appears to have become the new Afghanistan. The Reagan administration support of the notorious “Afghan Arabs” during the 1980’s led to the formation of Al Qaida during the 1990’s. The western world’s support for jihadists in Syria has apparently permitted jihadism to revive even after the destruction of Islamic State.
Syrian jihadists have been used by Turkey to fight against the Russians in Libya. Now they are fighting on behalf of Azerbaijan. The Russians were on the right side in Syria. Hopefully, Moscow will recognize that the enemies they fought in Syria and are fighting in Libya are waging war against the Christian Armenians.
During the First World War, the Russian Empire gave support to the Armenians against the Ottoman Empire. It is time for the Russians to demonstrate their claims to sponsorship of Eastern Christianity by fully supporting the Armenians militarily, diplomatically, and politically. The Trump administration which admirably cut off aid to the jihadists in Syria must recognize those same jihadists are engaged in aggressive war against the Armenians.
3 replies on “Support the Armenians!”
An interesting article can be found here
https://www.reuters.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-int/russia-warns-that-nagorno-karabakh-could-become-islamist-militant-stronghold-idUSKBN26R1DZ
From a common religion standpoint and ideologically I support the Armenians. Azerbaijan is your typical militaristic and chauvinist eastern entity and they’re close to Turkey with all that denotes.
Regardless, the real support for Armenia needs to come out of Russia. It’s their region, their interests and their neighbors. I’m a little preplexed that Georgia has taken a middle of the road position with respect to the Azeris and Armenians, but there is a lot of history there-the Georgians hate Russia and have been warming up to America a great deal recently. They probably look for a lead from America on this conflict to echo.
We have many Armenians in this country and they’re generally wealthy and somewhat influential. I’m sure both parties are courting their vote and won’t do or say anything critical of Armenia until after the election. Then, I expect we’ll call for a cease fire and try to play middle of the road.
At the end of the day it’s up to Russia to defend Armenia’s interests, or lose another satellite state. The real question is what will America do to strong-arm Turkey into putting restraints on Azerbaijan? Without that effort, Erdogan will likely provide financial and military assistance for the Azeris and this could drag on for months and months.
The Russians have to take into consideration the fact that Turkey is still courting the enemies of the Syrian regime that Russia supported. Turkey is arming these Syrian jihadists in Libya (where they are fighting the Russians) and these Syrians aren now fighting with Azerbaijan. Turkish and Russian interests are not compatible. Sometime something has to give and there has to be a collision between the two.