Turkey and USA stand behind Nagorno Karabakh battle

Who’s behind the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan and what penalties can it result in in opposition to the backdrop of Turkey’s imperial ambition? Pravda.Ru requested these and different inquiries to army historian Yuri Knutov. Turkey’s appetites are rising
“The army battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan, or reasonably between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, is escalating. Is that this a full-scale army operation to the bitter finish?””If one takes a have a look at how the occasions started, one have ask many questions on this connection. Initially, NATO held army workouts close to Russia’s western borders. Then they did it in Ukraine. All this was timed to coincide with the disaster in Belarus. Now the workouts are over, the disaster in Belarus is step by step stabilizing, however on the similar time one other disaster sparked in Nagorno Karabakh. I see one architect right here, and that is Washington. Azerbaijan needs to revive sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey, a NATO member, can also be behind this. I can see the next motives behind the disaster: in opposition to the background of restricted hostilities, it turns into doable to strengthen the positions of Azerbaijan in future negotiations on a peaceable settlement of the disaster;
within the occasion of a full-scale operation, the purpose is to switch Nagorno-Karabakh underneath the management of Azerbaijan.
“Given Erdogan’s powerful statements about Turkey’s help for Azerbaijan and the necessity to return Nagorno-Karabakh, I consider that Azerbaijan is set to battle to the bitter finish, which suggests critical losses not solely among the many army, but additionally among the many civilian inhabitants. Hostilities should be stopped on the very starting, earlier than they develop right into a large-scale battle.””The battle has been occurring for nearly thirty years, and it isn’t going to subside. Fairly quite the opposite, it turns into extra critical. Do you suppose that nobody ought to intrude and let these individuals battle one another?””If it wasn’t for therefore many deaths, together with civilian casualties, it may very well be the case. But, given the doable civilian casualties, I consider that one mustn’t let this battle unfastened. On the similar time, nevertheless, it isn’t really easy to cease it both. “Each side have strengthened their army energy. Armenia is a three-million-strong nation. A lot of them reside and work in different nations as visitor employees, so the inhabitants is 2-2.5 million. Azerbaijan is a nine-million-strong nation. Given Azeri visitor employees, the nation has 7-7.5 million individuals. The Armenian military counts 40,000 troops, whereas Azerbaijan has a 120,000-strong military. By way of army , the Azerbaijani military is 3 times stronger than the Armenian one. There may be appreciable superiority in aviation and artillery. All senior officers of the Military o Azerbaijan underwent retraining in Turkey. Israel offered help within the modernization of Soviet weapons that Azerbaijan has. Azerbaijan purchased weapons from Russia, Belarus and NATO nations (primarily from Turkey). Armenia additionally bought state-of-the-art arms programs, together with Iskander complexes and new fighter jets. The Armenian military additionally meets right this moment’s necessities. Nevertheless, the Azerbaijani military enjoys the help of Turkey. The Turkish army carry out the position of advisers and might present direct army help to their counterparts in Azerbaijan. Turkey’s Erdogan set a purpose to revive the Ottoman Empire, create one thing related. We are able to see an aggressive course geared toward increasing Turkey’s affect in adjoining areas: