A nice reading summarizes the conflict from Azerbaijani point of view.
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"I see that some people in the West express their support for Armenia purely because Armenia is a "Christian" country and Azerbaijan is a "Muslim" country.
In fact, of course, everything is much more complicated. In this conflict, neither religion nor ethnicity plays any role.
First of all, both countries are secular and none of the country have an official religion. Armenia is tacitly supported by Muslim Iran and Lebanon, as well as Christian Russia, while Azerbaijan is supported by Muslim Turkey and Pakistan, Israel and Christian countries like Ukraine and Italy. At least from this one you can understand that the conflict has no religious connotation.
Then some people say that not only Azerbaijan has a conflict with Armenia, but also Turkey doesn't have good relationship with Armenia. Both Azerbaijan and Turkey are mainly turkic countries, and here the factor of ethnic conflict allegedly enters, which is also not the case. The Azerbaijani army consists of Azerbaijani citizens of different nationalities. One of the famous heroes of the Karabakh war is a Jew and a monument to him was erected in Baku. While countries as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which are Turkic countries, are the official military allies of Armenia.
The conflict is purely territorial and the war is taking place exclusively on the territory of Azerbaijan. The main motivation for the war among Azerbaijanis is to return home. 30 years ago, Azerbaijanis were driven out of their homes and they want to return home. The whole world recognized and recognizes Karabakh as the territory of Azerbaijan. Armenia itself, having entered the UN, recognized the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
If you are in doubt about the words mentioned here, we advise you to read various articles on this topic from all sides and draw your own conclusions."
So 3rd day and still no significant (if any) success for Azerbaijan? It looks to me that fighting is stil on first layer of defense.
Unfortunately, this type of conflict is a "zero sum" / winner takes all type. It cannot be resolved through negotiations as there is no ground to compromise. Despite overwhelming qualitative edge over opposition, Azeri military performance has been dismal in every encounter for three decades already.
Not surprising considering Armenia has had years to prepare their defences and the balance of forces isn't massively in Azerbaijan's favour to offset that. Attacking fixed positions without having suppressed enemy artillery and anti tank positions first is suicidal.
Misterious crates with manpads showing up in turkish kurdistan in 3...2...1... record sales of truck canvas tarp in Iran, and more trucks on the Iranian Armenian border crossings than in a german autobahn.
If Azeris couldnt win this one on their own, one of the worst ideas they could come up with was openly calling the turks on their side. As everyone kind of knows this days, "Turkish help" comes with "Turkish enemies", and its not like they are lacking the later this days.
Just my 2c
Anyone reliable has confirmed the downing of the armenian plane by the turkish airforce?? Huge development if happens to be true...echoes of big G word not liked by Erdo intensifying
Where is Azeri's airforce?
All the problems started after the Soviet authorities decided to cede an Armenian-majority territory to Azerbaijan, using the famous Roman divide & conquer tactics. If it had not happened, today's issues would not have existed.Unfortunately, this type of conflict is a "zero sum" / winner takes all type. It cannot be resolved through negotiations as there is no ground to compromise. Despite overwhelming qualitative edge over opposition, Azeri military performance has been dismal in every encounter for three decades already.
Also, Azeris can forget about winning PR war as well. Having Turkey in Azeri's corner is actually "toxic". Also, Russian propaganda machine is already in full swing and the same folks who slandered Ukrainians and just recently Belarus opposition are already embedded within Armenian political and military structure. Russia Today conglomerate is run by an ethnic Armenian "power couple", and it has unlimited resources.
Things just don't look good for Azeris at the moment.
All the problems started after the Soviet authorities decided to cede an Armenian-majority territory to Azerbaijan, using the famous Roman divide & conquer tactics. If it had not happened, today's issues would not have existed.
Speaking of Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani enclave, its percentage of an Armenian population went down from 44.7% in 1829 to literally zero now. Ethnic Armenians are scared of living there. Anything Armenian tends to be destroyed, including people's graves.
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
These two articles will help our forum users understand how batsh1t crazy Azerbaijanis are:
An Azeri kills an Armenian soldier at a NATO training in Budapest: the ECtHR decides a rare case of State responsibility and presidential pardon - Strasbourg Observers
By Cedric Ryngaert and Kushtrim Istrefi On 26 May 2020, the European Court of Human Rights rendered a chamber judgment in Makuchyan and Minasyan v. Azerbaijan and Hungary. The case concerns a soldier from Azerbaijan, R.S., who killed an Armenian soldier and attempted to kill another one while on...strasbourgobservers.com
Ramil Safarov - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
All the problems started after the Soviet authorities decided to cede an Armenian-majority territory to Azerbaijan, using the famous Roman divide & conquer tactics. If it had not happened, today's issues would not have existed.
Speaking of Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani enclave, its percentage of an Armenian population went down from 44.7% in 1829 to literally zero now. Ethnic Armenians are scared of living there. Anything Armenian tends to be destroyed, including people's graves.
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
These two articles will help our forum users understand how batsh1t crazy Azerbaijanis are:
An Azeri kills an Armenian soldier at a NATO training in Budapest: the ECtHR decides a rare case of State responsibility and presidential pardon - Strasbourg Observers
By Cedric Ryngaert and Kushtrim Istrefi On 26 May 2020, the European Court of Human Rights rendered a chamber judgment in Makuchyan and Minasyan v. Azerbaijan and Hungary. The case concerns a soldier from Azerbaijan, R.S., who killed an Armenian soldier and attempted to kill another one while on...strasbourgobservers.com
Ramil Safarov - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Based on footage they seem to be degrading Armenia's air defence with UAVs first. If they were to fly jets straight into Armenian airspace it would be a Turkey shoot as I don't think they have the means to electronically suppress radar.
+++And the Hungarian government released the killer, who is celebrated at home as a hero. (He was immediately pardoned, almost immediately, when he got off the plane.)
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