A crisis was expected in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, and it did not take long to arise. It started as an arm-twisting exercise between the civilian and military authorities of Armenia but evolved to further consolidate Russia’s influence in the country. Hopes were high when Nikol Pashinyan won …
Read More »Crisis In Armenia Provides Fertile Ground For Russian Meddling – OpEd
Armenia is in crisis. Again. The immediate cause came on February 25, when Onik Gasparyan, Chief of General Staff of the Armenian Army, and other senior commanders released a statement calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to step down. Pashinyan responded by firing Gasparyan. Yet the real cause of the …
Read More »Sanction the Axis of Mercenary and Terrorist Evil: Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Georgia
Azerbaijan deployed thousands of mercenaries in last year’s 44-day war that it and Turkey waged against Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabagh and Armenia. Azerbaijan thereby flagrantly violated the UN’s International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries (UNMERC) which it signed in 1997. Forty-six countries have signed UNMERC including Belgium, Cyprus, …
Read More »Russia ‘Ready To Cut Ties’ With EU If Sanctions Threat Carried Out
Russia says it is prepared to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc follows through with threats to implement tough new economic sanctions against Moscow over the detention and jailing of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
Read More »Nagorno-Karabakh, religious war?
So far, there have been many wars over beliefs between human beings, some of which have been over religious beliefs and some have not. For example, widespread conflicts between communists and capitalists or the American Civil War were not formally the result of a religious belief, although they could be …
Read More »Iran’s policy in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Introduction: This article is written from a strategic point of view on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and the possibilities and consequences related to the future of the region. Any war in any part of the world will be doomed to defeat without the support and determination of the nation or the …
Read More »Nagorno-Karabakh, religious war?
So far, there have been many wars over beliefs between human beings, some of which have been over religious beliefs and some have not. For example, widespread conflicts between communists and capitalists or the American Civil War were not formally the result of a religious belief, although they could be …
Read More »Can Russia Steer the Endgame in Nagorno-Karabakh to Its Advantage?
Until late last month, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh had been mostly frozen, with occasional skirmishes, for over a quarter of a century.
Read More »What the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Revealed About Future Warfighting
Last week’s Russia-brokered agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended 44 days of bloody clashes over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh—the first interstate war fought by conventional forces in recent years.
Read More »Russia to Exit Open Skies Treaty, Escalating Military Rivalry With U.S.
Washington withdrew from the treaty, which lets countries make reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory, last year. Moscow’s move could signal difficulties for the Biden administration. Russia said on Friday that it was pulling out of a decades-old treaty that allowed countries to make military reconnaissance flights over each other’s …
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