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US, Turkey And Israel Fuel Forgotten War Between Armenia And Azerbaijan

October 29, 2020 Danny Sjursen, The Real News. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Türkiye, United States, Wars and Militarism

Since Sept. 27, fighting in the disputed south Caucasus Mountain region of Nagorno-Karabakh has killed over 1,000 people, both civilians and combatants, while uprooting the lives of thousands. This includes new 11 casualties on Sunday, Oct. 25, noted in a Deutsche Welle report citing numbers released by the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry. Leading up to the 2020 election, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, its disputed history between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and its geopolitical implications, along with many other critical foreign policy issues, have been largely ignored by the American media...

Guess Who Arms Both Azerbaijan And Armenia

October 23, 2020 David Swanson, Let's Try Democracy. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Wars and Militarism, Weapons Sales

This war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is, quite typically, a U.S. war even if the U.S. public doesn’t think so, even if the news is that the United States is trying to negotiate peace — news that includes zero mention of cutting off the weapons flow or even threatening to cut off the weapons flow. The Washington Post would like to send in the U.S. military — which it thinks is a simple and obvious solution. That claim is dependent on nobody even thinking of the idea of cutting off the weapons. This is not a Trump war or an Obama war.

Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan

October 22, 2020 Raul Diego, Mintpress News. Educate! Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, Weapons Sales

The latest iteration of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which has already claimed the lives of dozens of people, had been largely forgotten by the world before hostilities reignited in September. Only the collapse of the Soviet Union was able to bring about the end of the last war between these entrenched enemies in the 1980s and 1990s. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, the still contested region claimed under international law by Azerbaijan and de facto controlled by its ethnic Armenian majority has fallen under a new spell of violence thanks in large part to external actors vying for a larger war with another neighboring country: Iran.

Nagorno-Karabakh Talks Again Fail

October 22, 2020 Moon of Alabama. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Wars and Militarism

As we had expected the ceasefire in the war on Nagarno-Karabakh did not hold. Armenian troops have left the hard to defend lower grounds and retreated towards the mountains. For Azerbaijahn to proceed onto higher ground will be much harder than the previous fighting. The low ground also offered little protection for the Armenians from the massive aerial attacks by the Turkish and Israeli drones that Azerbaijahn is using. Armenian units had big losses of tanks and other equipment to aerial attacks.

How Can People In The US Support Peace In Nagorno-Karabakh?

October 18, 2020 Nicolas J. S. Davies, Intrepid Report. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Wars and Militarism

Americans are dealing with an upcoming general election, a pandemic that has killed over 200,000 of us, and corporate news media whose business model has degenerated to selling different versions of “The Trump Show” to their advertisers. So who has time to pay attention to a new war half way round the world? But with so much of the world afflicted by 20 years of U.S.-led wars and the resulting political, humanitarian and refugee crises, we can’t afford not to pay attention to the dangerous new outbreak of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Conflict Isn’t About Us (Or Russia)

October 2, 2020 Maj. Danny Sjursen, US (ret.), AntiWar.com. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Wars and Militarism

Journalists and geo-strategists call it a "frozen conflict” – one of several such deadlocked disputes under tenuous ceasefire in the post-Soviet states. Only now, the long-standing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) is anything but. For the third time since the Russian-brokered 22-year armed-truce – ending a bloody 1988-94 war that claimed some 30,000 lives – broke down in 2016, the antagonists are at it again. Yet this outbreak feels different, far bigger, with an ambitious Azerbaijan seemingly intent on cracking the whole stalemate wide open.

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