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Originally published on ZeroHedge
Russia is not happy with its ally Armenia, which is part of the Moscow-led regional Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). There have been intensifying Armenia-Russia tensions after Moscow’s refusal to intervene military on Yerevan’s side in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War and follow-up clashes of 2022.
Armenia’s defense ministry has announced it will host joint military exercises with the United States next week, dubbed the Eagle Partner 2023 drills, which will run September 11-20.
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The defense ministry stated the exercises are for the purpose of training for peacekeeping missions. “Within the framework of preparation for peacekeeping missions, units preparing for international peacekeeping operations frequently participate in similar joint exercises and trainings in partner countries,” a statement said.
However, the drills appear small, given the Pentagon has confirmed that a mere 85 American soldiers and 175 Armenians will participate. A statement also said it will not involve heavy weaponry, and will feature members of the Kansas National Guard.
The Kremlin has said this is cause for “concern”, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov issuing the following statement Thursday:
“Of course, such news causes concern, especially in the current situation. Therefore, we will deeply analyze this news and monitor the situation.”
Currently there are contingents of Russian peacekeeping forces in the contested border regions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Since the truce signed on November 10, 2020 – which saw ethnic Armenians booted from historic territory – there have been some 2,000 Russian troops in the region keeping an uneasy peace.
Russia has long had a military base inside Armenia going back to 1991. Thus the tiny caucuses country has long been seen as within Russia’s sphere of influence since Soviet times.
On Thursday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once again charged that Azerbaijan is mobilizing troops along the border. “Azerbaijan has massed forces along the line of contact with Nagorno-Karabakh and on the border with Armenia over the last few days,” he said, adding that “the military-political situation in our region has seriously worsened.”
He alleged Azerbaijan is “demonstrating its intention to undertake a fresh military provocation against Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.”
i mean us-regime is always printing money for wars… i highly doubt the next great war is that far…
ruzzia already lost its money
nato expansionist ambitions won’t lead to greatness, except despair, greed, violence, instability. ultimately it’s going to be bad for all humans.
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the armenians must be dumb seeking exercises with us troops who for years were training with ukrainian troops.
the us sent no troops to defend ukraine, why do the armenians believe they would help armenia?
the leader is sold out to us/eu, people do not have anything to say, but they should start sabotaging their government….
ahahahaha…don’t confuse us/eu with shithole ruzzia
sorry for this old wonderful culture , but they play false and make only enemies with their neighbors. to complicate things they look for the remote allies like us and france which have also no good intentions in this part of the world. the trouble is guaranteed.
because ruzzia can’t…lost too many troops already
then do it youself. do not just be the western slavic leader.
since russia has burned all bridges replace them as the slavic
and eastern people leader. use your nato and eu position to
put the lights on the crimes of azerbeydzhan and turkey
against the armenian people.
russia has failed as slavic leader so why does poland not step up.
it would be welcomed by eastern christians.
poles’ task actually is to make trouble on the belarussian border , also to send some idiots to the ukrainian meat grinder. there is no will and no capacity to help armenia.
if were one of those guardsmen i’d be like the hell am i being sent over there for.
tak veru, arménsko je jedným z členských štátov odkb, ale ako vidíte sami, tak sa paktuje s nepriateľom rf, teda s usa!!! a práve tu vzniká istý problém a napätie. a toto teraz môže moskva využiť vo svoj prospech. azerbajdžan má zase za spojenca turecko!!! putin to vymyslel geniálne!!! usa a turecko podporuje každý inú stranu konfliktu!!! obaja sú v nato!!! toto nebude robiť v nato dobrú krv.
russia went to easy on azerbaijan when they invaded artsakh. this is what you get. armenia will seek to find a new garantor to defend it against its aggressive neighbors. azerbaijan and turkey want to wipe armenia off the map and cleanse armenian people even tough its already a very small rump state country. turkey and azerbaijan deserve to be wiped from existance. remove the turk from anatolia and the caucasus completely send these mongrels back to central asia. make anatolia greek again.
if you follow the history of the conflict , it were armenian which didn’t want to defend artsakh as their own land (i guess on demand of us). so why should russia have done it for them? armenian play false and calculate wrong , they risk to lose all if they don’t change the strategy
good thing if ruzzia is unhappy
kas kasti, po kokiomis skylėmis patenka pats
russia has a small airbase (mig-29sm, s-300pm) and peacekeepers in armenia. they need to deploy more troops and airforce assets. they cannot allow armenians to become cucks for the us. armenians must be fucking retarded to trust the us. at the same time, russia cannot let us to come in and take over easily like what happened in syria (east euphrates)
armenian leader feel like genius to try to play off russia and turks (+azeris) against each other while supporting us to get a new foothold in this part of eurasia. of course everybody watches this false play. the result will be their total collapse.
when you lay down with the united snakes of america you will surely be bitten. and the bite is fatal.
slovenian proverb says that everybody is forger of its own misery.