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by zniturah 1458 days ago
What happened in 2020 is that Turkey and Azerbaijan with the direct political support from Israel and UK attacked a small Armenian population on a disputed land, whereas the rest of the world was just silently watching because most of the western politicians were simply bribed by Azerbaijanis government. There are numerous fact about the story, just google it.
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Strong words about bribed western politicians, considering that the land was owned by Azerbaijan up until Armenia occupied those lands in 1990s.

Yes, the lands were disputed and the dispute was resolved by Azerbaijan winning the lands back after 16 years of occupation.

Strong words about Azerbaijan winning back the land. ~150K Armenians leave in Artsakh today and btw have you heard of 2K Russian troops defending Armenians in Artsakh?
Of course a lot of Armenians live there.

But a lot of Turks live in Bulgaria(%10 of the population), a lot of Russians live in Ukraine and the baltic states, a lot of Azeri live in Iran. On each and every case, they are concentrated in some specific regions.

Do you think that Turkey should invade Bulgaria, Russia rightfully invaded Ukraine and has the right to invade Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and many others. Do you think that Azerbaijan should invade Iran?

Artsakh was Armenian land for centuries, thats the point your are missing.
Russia says the same thing for Ukraine and other parts of the Europe.

Let's agree to disagree on this one.

This is an nonsensical comparison. As absurd as Putins claim is historically it has more ground to stand on , at least historically both Russia and Ukraine are (kind of) successors to the original Rus state centered around Kiev. Whereas Azerbaijan’s claim is basically based on the fact that they invaded the region and murdered or drove off the Armenians living there.

Obviously what happened hundreds of years ago should be irrelevant since the people currently living there had nothing to do with it. But also I don’t think we should deny the right of self determination to the people living there just because Stalin drew some line on a map close to century ago.

What gets me is that people always talk about the land and not people who live there. As if they don’t matter at all.

Do you need that piece of land that bad so that Armenians living there have to abandon their homes?