Reuters reported that since the Azerbaijani army launched another large-scale offensive on the Nagorno-Karabakh region on September 19, Armenians living there have been seriously threatened and have begun to flee to Armenia en masse. The Armenians here seem to realize that no one will come to their rescue this time, and to avoid persecution and cleansing by the Azerbaijanis, they can only flee with their families.
The struggle between Armenia and Azerbaijan for sovereignty over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dates back to the Soviet era, when the two sides were incompatible with each other. After the upheaval in Eastern Europe, oil-rich Azerbaijan received the support of the United States, while Russia chose to support the weaker Armenia.
Some analysts believe that this time the Armenians made a huge mistake, that is, in the rare gap between peace, abandoning Russia and choosing the United States. And the United States did not intend to save Armenia!
This attack by Azerbaijan obviously made very thorough preparations and predicted the situation in advance. Azerbaijan is powerful and has repeatedly launched attacks on the Nagorno-Karabakh region before, but each time it has been blocked by Russia and cannot fully achieve its goals. But now, Russia's main forces are concentrating on the Ukrainian battlefield, and Armenia's recent start of getting closer to the United States has angered Putin. Therefore, the Azerbaijanis do not expect the Russians to help Armenia this time, and Putin wants them to deeply experience the end of betrayal.
Azerbaijan's choice of the timing of the offensive was also fully considered, at a time when the Armenian army was holding military exercises with the United States. Armenians will take it for granted that with American troops in their territory, Azerbaijan will never dare to attack, so vigilance will be greatly reduced.
Second, with world leaders currently participating in the UN General Assembly, there are more important issues to discuss, and as long as the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is contained within a certain scope, it will not be dealt with immediately. After all, even Russia does not care, who will come to the rescue of Armenia. The Americans are even less likely to care whether the Armenians live or die, the United States just wants to use them to balance Russia.
Therefore, the Armenians really had no one to save them this time, and no one even from neighboring countries lent a helping hand. According to reports, on the second day of Azerbaijan's offensive, the Afghan army missed an attack on a Russian military vehicle, killing four Russian officers and soldiers on the spot. What frightened the Azerbaijanis even more was that one of them turned out to be the deputy commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed there, Ivan Kovgan.
Azerbaijanis expected that the Russian army would not interfere in their military operations, but they did not expect that their soldiers were cheap and beat the deputy commander of the Russian army to death, which angered the Russians and Putin, and Azerbaijani President Aliyev called Putin for the first time and apologized over and over again. Aliyev also said he would severely punish the perpetrators and was willing to provide huge financial compensation to the families of the victims.
If before, regardless of whether the Russian army was attacked or not, Putin would never allow Azerbaijan to be so presumptuous, but this time, Putin finally chose to calm down and did not interfere too much in Azerbaijan's actions. Although the main forces of the Russian army are indeed contained in Azerbaijan at present, it does not require much strength to deal with an Azerbaijan. It follows from this that the Armenians really have to pay for their choice.
After this battle, the Armenians can finally recognize the true face of the Americans. The US military was with them, and Biden did not even ask Azerbaijan to stop the operation in the first place.
Of course, it is not completely unmanned to speak for Armenia, and French President Emmanuel Macron has publicly condemned Azerbaijan, but only because of political disagreement with the United States.
Perhaps, this is the end of being close to the United States!