Heavy weekend fighting continued into Monday, with reports of at least three more Azeri soldiers killed and Nagorno-Karabakh reporting that they’ve had 20 fighters killed and 72 wounded in the past three days of fighting.
Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan warned a group of foreign ambassadors today that the war could have “unpredictable and irreversible consequences, right up to a full-scale war,” cautioning that both Russia and Turkey could quickly become involved.
The UN recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, but the region has had an unrecognized, Armenia-backed government since 1994. The dispute over the territory’s ownership rages throughout the Soviet era as well, with no signs of resolution.
Turkey issued a statement about the weekend fighting expressing support for Azerbaijan, while Russia’s Foreign Ministry slammed Turkey for being “one-sided.” Russia has an existing defense treaty with Armenia, and has 5,000 troops stationed there to defend them from potential incursions.
The recent flare-up came in the wake of Azeri President Aliyev’s visit to the United States. Secretary of State John Kerry met with him, and called for an “ultimate resolution” of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. Though Kerry insisted he wanted a diplomatic solution, within 48 hours fighting was raging.
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USG debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Ukraine
are already costing (us) taxpayers billions. Apparently, this isn’t enough
for the crooks, thieves, and war profiteers in the Pentagon whose
overall budget is 1.7 Trillion per year.
The situation will only get worse when Clinton and her Repug neocon
supporters (win) the selection in November. I expect the status quo
of perpetual war to continue.
Geez, just to think that this all started as a protest of the Armenians in the region against the Soviet Azeri TV programming in 1988!
Kerry, while in Baku, called for the ‘ultimate resolution’ of the conflict and Biden told the Azeri President that the US is behind him and note that just several days thereafter the war restarted. It looks like the US is doing to Armenia and Azeribaijan what the US did to get Saddam to invade Kuwait to start a big war.
So who is calling for renewed fighting? The US, as usual, in its insufferable ‘indispensable and exceptional’ lunacy, in its mad hatred of Russia, Armenia, the SCO and the BRICS.
The US is on the path to more murder and destruction. More millions will suffer and die due to US policy. The US doesn’t care about Armenians. The US would be happy to lay pipelines over Armenian corpses.
There in for a rude f**king awakening. Turks are only good at murdering Armenians when there unarmed. They wont be so lucky this time around.