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by diminish 1571 days ago
A bit of counter-historical facts.

1. Russia wants to eliminate Ukraine, and Armenia is the sole explicit supporter

2. Russia did the same in 1915, arming Armenian Dashnaks to kill 500K to 1million of their neighbors; Turkish or Kurdish civilians unprotected due to Ottoman war against Russia.

3. Russia in 1990 punished Azerbaidjan protests in Baku and used Armenia as a puppet which occupied not only Karabagh but an additional 20% of Azerbaijan land and killed and displayed 100K to 1million people.

4. Ataturk's presence and war against occupants from Italy, England, Greece, France starts in 1919 long after the world war 1. So your interpretation is wrong.

Finally yes I'm sad for the deaths, like everyone in Turkey. But we're sick of people who omit 5 million Turkish deaths in Balkans and Caucasus.

5. My several best mates in Turkey are Armenians. I love their everyhing. But I think Armenian nationalist heritage of Russia supported aggresiveness hurts all neighbors including Georgia too.

Armenia's sole friends are Russia and Iran - and that is not a coincidence.
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kylehotchkiss 1571 days ago
Not sure if this is still the case today, but Yerevan's US Embassy compound is the second largest in the world (couldn't find a more authoritative source in a quick google, but https://pickvisa.com/blog/biggest-embassy-buildings-around-t... and https://pickvisa.com/blog/biggest-embassy-buildings-around-t... roughly say the same things). It seems odd they'd let USA build such a massive operation in a country with the same population as Arkansas if US wasn't a friend.

Of course, such a large embassy isn't being used only for visas, conducting local diplomacy, and USAID operations :)

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hnav 1565 days ago
Counter-historical as in not corresponding to history?

1. What? 2. Genocide denial talking point straight from the hurriyet. Massacres had been going on for 20 years in 1915. 3. Armenia didn't occupy anything until 1992. In 1990 people in NKAO were speaking of independence as were people in the rest of AZSSR, in 1991 Soviet Union with the support of AZSSR was ethnically cleansing parts of AZSSR of Armenian militias. It wasn't until 1992 that after being besieged for a year NKAO defenders broke out and started occupying anything. 4. The civilians that were death marched into the Middle East were causing those millions of deaths?

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