No eternal allies… War in Nagorno Karabakh-day 9

Qnarik Martirosyan
2 min readOct 5, 2020
Stepanakert after being bombarded by Azerbaijani forces

One of the lessons we definitely learn from living in a war is that either you fight and protect what is yours or you die… even if like a hero, still you die.

Israeli news media outlets and journalists said drones and other weapons were imported from Israel from which 60% of Azerbaijan arms procurement comes.

from Tehran Times

Israel and Azerbaijan have very close ties. Israel is the main supplier of arms to Azerbaijan, while a large portion of Israel’s oil supply — about 40% of its oil needs- comes from Azerbaijan.

from Axios

“The United States,” Mr. Pashinyan said in an interview, “needs to explain whether it gave those F-16s to bomb peaceful villages and peaceful populations.” He said that Mr. O’Brien had “heard and acknowledged” his concerns and promised to set up a phone conversation between the Armenian leader and President Trump.

from The New York Times

While the three Minsk co-chairs — and Iran — are in unison calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities, Azerbaijan’s closest ally Turkey has given its support to Baku’s military actions.

from The Moscow Times

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow…

Read also:

Nagorno-Karabakh War. What can we learn from media coverage? part 1
Nagorno Karabakh War. What can we learn from media coverage? part 2: the risks of a wider war
Peacebuilding… Does it exist? The War in Nagorno Karabakh is heating up
Why you don’t care about the situation in Nagorno Karabakh and why to be like a Greek?
The dying pacifist or humanity aufwiedersehen!

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Qnarik Martirosyan

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