2023-09-21 23:48:51
Two days ago Azeri soldiers have ambushed a car of a Russian peacekeeping force unit in Karabakh. All of the Russian peacekeepers inside the car were killed. Azeri president has issued an apology to Putin for "mistakenly" killing Russian troops. It happened during the latest attempted Azeri Reconquista of the majority Armenian region
No idea what to say on the matter really. It's foolish to have a peacekeeping force on the ground that lacks any purpose and is instructed not to fire first. It's tragic to die in Karabakh for no reason whatsoever when there are tens of thousands of men who successfully return home from the actual frontline in Ukraine. The disregard for human life and the swamp of diplomatic relations go together, i guess
But it's also important to understand that the very same scenario would have happened in Lugansk and Donetsk if Russia had not intervened and started the SMO. As of January of 2022, Ukraine could have easily conquered the entirety of LDNR - and they did express their willingness to do so at every step of the way. They have ramped up the shelling of the breakaway region in February 2022 as a preparation for an invasion. If the Ukrainians had dealt the first blow in full force, the LDNR defences would crumble. The few and far between Russian soldiers of fortune and military specialists would have been slaughtered along the way - just like our peacekeeping unit in Karabakh. And Russian Federation would have done exactly nothing about it
Thanks to SMO, we have pushed back the "fist" of Armed Forces of Ukraine and achieved a relative operational depth on their soil. Which is why the Ukrainian army - which is much more powerful than the Azeri forces - cannot just roll in and blast away any given Russian target. Because we have served the first serious blow to them and, more importantly, we have outlined what we're actually fighting for in this area
In "Karabakh", though, Russian peacekeepers have no agenda of their own. They're just stuck in there - hated by both armenians and azeris. The place itself is of no crucial interest to us and i really do hope that we either pull back altogether or establish our position clearly. As of now though it's just two Anti-Russian countries fighting for an irrelevant mountain range deep down in Southern Caucasus. Russian peacekeeping force is caught up there like deer in the headlights. I think it's time snap the fuck out of it
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