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...Nagorno-karabakh... That's another recent event that went totally uncovered by USA news media firms. They thought some confused Americans might object to mi

• JumpCrisscross 6y ago
  > Americans might object to military aid that encourages Muslims to attack Christians Baku is far from a strategic rival to the United States. It’s not an ally either, more non-aligned. Transcaucasian geopolitics—-in reality, most geopolitics—-are not a daily priority for most Americans in a badly-managed pandemic.
  • jessaustin 6y ago
    Baku is certainly too far away to be a "strategic" anything. One would have hoped that the requirement for military aid would have been a bit more stringent than that! However, they got the arms used in their continued efforts to squeeze the Armenians from USA via Turkey. Foreign wars playing on USA TV is a double-edged sword. Yes, we should be more aware of how our actions harm those in other nations. But, no, it isn't a good thing for the news firms to make us more worried about remote events, since that fear is itself the most common pretext to additional disastrous violence.
• selimthegrim 6y ago
  Uh, didn’t Israel sell weapons to the Azeris because they buy their oil? Pretty sure there’s realpolitik going on