Opinion piece on the tensions between Moscow and Baku — and the ‘risk’ backing the latter poses to the West
Posted by 1DarkStarryNight@reddit | anime_titties | View on Reddit | 8 comments
VintageGriffin@reddit
TL;DR on the tensions as far as I came to understand them: * Russia cracks down on Azeri criminal gangs. They do that all the time and to everyone, this time around it just happened to be these guys. * Criminal gangs have friends in high places. Or rather, the other way around. * Azerbaijan responds by cracking down on reporters and civilians; arresting them, and posting videos of their public humiliation in an obvious provocation. * West sees someone else having a beef with Russia and attributes them with all kinds of justice virtue and righteousness, because nobody who's against Russia can be anything either but. Keep trying to destabilize Russia doing whatever it takes. * Azerbaijan did this expecting that support in the first place.
Just some more Western meddling across the ocean.
enterisys@reddit
"Reporters and civilians" with FSB ties.
Sure bro...
kekus_dominatus@reddit
Which fucking "fsb ties"?
Aliev arrested some damn liberal expats from 2022
Dirty_slippers@reddit
Fuck Russia tbh, can’t say they didn’t have it coming, with the endless terror they inflict on civilians in Ukraine, fuck’em both honestly, Russia and all the Caucasus countries, nothing but strong-men types and religious nutters from Dagestan/Chechnya.
Dragon2906@reddit
Azerbeidzjan is strategically super important. It's in between Russia and Iran and India. And in between Turkey and the Caspian sea. North-South and East-West trading routes intersect there
Potaeto_Object@reddit
The most anomalous thing about this whole affair is that the Prime Minister of Armenia is supposedly backing Azerbaijan against Russia. This is an extremely unnatural alliance for a number of reasons. Firstly and most obviously, Azerbaijan expelled the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh just a couple years ago, and all indications are that Azeri ambitions for Armenian territory have not ended. Secondly, it is somewhat reasonable to consider Azerbaijan to be a proxy of Turkey, or at the very least, a strong ally of Turkey. Armenian relations with Turkey are still sour for the historical reason that Turkey continues to deny the existence of the Armenian genocide. The fact that Armenia decided to side with a country which is actively seeking to annex their territory and a country which refuses to acknowledge they committed a genocide against them, against Armenia’s historical regional backer is extremely poor judgement by Pashinyan.
Overall I expect the Russians will not let Azeri threats impact their internal law enforcement and eventually Azerbaijan will stand down especially because from what I hear, Turkey does not want Azerbaijan-Russia relations to sour too much.
SongFeisty8759@reddit
Not to mention Israel backs Azerbaijan... it's a weird world.
Dragon2906@reddit
In the Middle East everything (bad) is possible