There is still a big threat of war in the region, and Armenia needs to get ready for that war. This is what Head of the Department of Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University Vardan Voskanyan told reporters today.
According to him, this is linked to the fact that the participants of the Nagorno-Karabakh war aren’t satisfied with the outcomes, and this first and foremost concerns Turkey, which failed to have its presence as a peacekeeper, and now it is trying to ensure its military presence in Ganja.
“Besides that, from the military perspective, Russia strengthened its positions in Azerbaijan (if we take into consideration the fact that Baku considers Nagorno-Karabakh its own). Amid this, Ankara and Baku are planning to hold military exercises in Kars, which is not far from the Russian 102nd Military Base in Armenia. Israel, which de facto participated in the war as well, didn’t get what it wanted,” the analyst stated.
Tavit says
The planned joint Turkish-Azeri military exercises in Kars are an obvious signal to Russia that the Turkic duo is not intimidated by Russia.
And this is yet another sign that Russia made a big mistake by betraying its Armenian ally and siding with the Turkic duo who hate the Russian people.
Putin betrayed not just Armenia but Russia.
George says
Couldn’t agree more! Putin is so preoccupied by Russia’s so-called “pragmatic” relationship with Turkey (with the hope of taking away Turkey from NATO and bringing it to Russian camp) that he lost national dignity and pride. And this is nothing new; he stood idle when Russian military plane was shot down over Syria (Nov. 2015), Ambassador Andrei Karlov was assassinated in Ankara (Dec. 2016), and Russian military copter was shot down over Armenia near Nakhichevan border (Nov. 2020). Disgraceful, eh?