Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on April 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Mustafa Kaya)
Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.), Anti-War: Driven By Delusions: The West’s Nagorno-Karabakh Hypocrisy
Something stands out in recent U.S. and most Western reporting on the ongoing bloodletting in Nagorno-Karabakh (NK). Well, two things actually: ignorance and hypocrisy. Having shuttered most of their foreign bureaus long ago, there’s a distinct lack of expertise in the mainstream press on this – and many other – regional hot spots. That’s translated to a series of Nagorno-Karabakh "explainers” that read like Wikipedia-ripoffs hastily filtered through Washington’s built-in "blame Russia” conflict-colander.
Peddling in platitudes, they assume binaries that aren’t and Russian aggression that isn’t. All the while missing the core cause of this far worse than standard flare-up along the unmonitored Azeri-Armenian "line of contact." In other words, the Erdogan elephant in the regional room. High-intensity air and armored combat has entered its tenth day, with little sign of abatement. Hundreds have been killed, including civilians, and major cities shelled, along with credible and corroborated reports that Turkey has indeed shipped in Ankara-paid Syrian mercenaries to support the Azeri army.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: Just watched an interview with a Washington foreign policy specialist on the Canadian broadcaster CBC blaming Russia for the current war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. No mention on Turkey sending Syrian jihadists to the conflict zone .... Macron reprimands Turkey, accuses Erdogan of sending 'jihadists' to Azerbaijan (France 24). No mention of Turkish F-16 fighter jets in Azerbaijan .... Satellite Images Confirm Turkish F-16 Fighters Secretly Deployed To Azerbaijan (Warzone/The Drive). And definitely no mention of this .... After invitation from Putin, both Armenia & Azerbaijan agree to attend Moscow talks on Nagorno-Karabakh – Russian Foreign Ministry (RT). At least this foreign policy "expert" did not blame Trump for the war as some are now doing .... Caucasus war a result of US retreat from the world (Asia Times).
