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Context from Wikipedia (because the article doesn't have it): "The main combatants were Azerbaijan, with support from Turkey and foreign mercenary groups on on

Context from Wikipedia (because the article doesn't have it): "The main combatants were Azerbaijan, with support from Turkey and foreign mercenary groups on one side; and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh and Armenia, on the other. It was the latest escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, which was annexed to Azerbaijan during the Soviet era and internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but partially governed by Artsakh, a breakaway state with an Armenian ethnic majority."

dmix 5y ago
And it wasn’t much of a war. It was just Armenia getting relentlessly hammered by Turkish-manufacturered drones.
- 1-more 5y ago
  That and a bunch of Syrian mercenaries who had a curiously easy time getting from Syria to Artsakh. Huh. Weird. Probably nothing.
  - remind_me_again 5y ago
  - diminish 5y ago
    And Russian wagner mercenaries and Russian troops in 1990 killing AZ who wanted independence from Soviets together with Baltics.
elchin 5y ago
It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.
- bpodgursky 5y ago
  Yes, which happened 30 years ago, so there's an entire generation that grew up with the borders we have today. We don't want to go back to the borders of historic Armenia for the same reason we don't want to go back to the 1988 borders — it's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_Armenia_150-en.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_...
  - elchin 5y ago
    30 years ago isn't that long - there are still people alive in Azerbaijan who own property deeds for houses in Karabakh, and who were born and grew up there. At the time there were 684k displaced Azerbaijanis (UN number), most of which are still alive today.
- bonzini 5y ago
  It was 90% Armenian in the 1920s; the Azerbaijan SSR promoted immigration of Azerbaijani in the region between then and the 1980s, but it never went below 75%.

dmix 5y ago

And it wasn’t much of a war. It was just Armenia getting relentlessly hammered by Turkish-manufacturered drones.

1-more 5y ago
That and a bunch of Syrian mercenaries who had a curiously easy time getting from Syria to Artsakh. Huh. Weird. Probably nothing.
- remind_me_again 5y ago
- diminish 5y ago
  And Russian wagner mercenaries and Russian troops in 1990 killing AZ who wanted independence from Soviets together with Baltics.

elchin 5y ago

It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.

bpodgursky 5y ago
Yes, which happened 30 years ago, so there's an entire generation that grew up with the borders we have today. We don't want to go back to the borders of historic Armenia for the same reason we don't want to go back to the 1988 borders — it's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_Armenia_150-en.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_...
- elchin 5y ago
  30 years ago isn't that long - there are still people alive in Azerbaijan who own property deeds for houses in Karabakh, and who were born and grew up there. At the time there were 684k displaced Azerbaijanis (UN number), most of which are still alive today.
bonzini 5y ago
It was 90% Armenian in the 1920s; the Azerbaijan SSR promoted immigration of Azerbaijani in the region between then and the 1980s, but it never went below 75%.