{"id":134290,"date":"2022-09-16T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=134290"},"modified":"2022-09-16T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:27:19","slug":"how-azerbaijan-attacks-on-armenia-are-setting-up-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=134290","title":{"rendered":"HOW AZERBAIJAN ATTACKS ON ARMENIA ARE FURTHER SETTING UP WORLD WAR III"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">AZERBAIJAN ATTACKS ARMENIA AMIDST THE GLOBALIST COUNTDOWN TO WW III<\/h1>\n<p>Joachim Hagopian<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->[The Criminal Prosecutor of Armenia] <em>says its criminal investigation into Azerbaijan\u2019s attack \u2013 a violation of the November 9, 2020 trilateral statement and several international treaties prohibiting the use of force or the threat to use force and invading the territory of another country gathered information on war crimes and criminal violations of customary international humanitarian law.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the fall of 2020, Azerbaijan invaded an area the size of Delaware known as Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh in Armenian) in the last 44-day war,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/israeli-drones-used-by-azerbaijan-under-spotlight-in-new-tv-report-661804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israeli supplied<\/a>\u00a0Azeri drones proved to be the key to establishing air superiority and the pivotal change in modern warfare witnessed the defeat for the first time the Armenians\u2019 limited, conventional military force, and the Baku government ultimately acquired control over most of the Armenian breakaway\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/europe-central-asia\/caucasus\/nagorno-karabakh-conflict\/warding-renewed-war-nagorno-karabakh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">territory<\/a>, including seven adjacent districts.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, September 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022, the perennial Azerbaijani aggressor was at it once again. Shortly after midnight, this time the Azeri military was simultaneously firing artillery shells at the Armenian towns of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1506549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Goris, Sotk and Jermuk<\/a>\u00a0directly inside Armenia proper. On Tuesday the Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan disclosed to the Armenian parliament in Yerevan that at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ae\/news\/world\/at-least-49-armenian-troops-killed-in-azerbaijan-border-clashes-pm\/ar-AA11Lpki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">49 Armenian<\/a>\u00a0troops lost their lives from the overnight shelling. Soon after the Armenian death toll went public, Azerbaijan\u2019s defense ministry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/nearly-100-killed-in-armenia-azerbaijan-border-clashes-\/6746320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>50 Azerbaijani servicemen died as a result of Armenia\u2019s large-scale provocation.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as in Ukraine,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/13\/armenia-says-49-soldiers-killed-in-attacks-by-azerbaijan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP<\/a>\u00a0reported that Azerbaijan is claiming its attacks were only in response to Armenians first attacking their troops. A consistent pattern is that Azeris regularly accuse Armenians as the guilty aggressors when the Armenians are simply defending what\u2019s already theirs, and been theirs since ancient times dating back to the early\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2018\/3\/16\/20641780\/armenia-the-first-christian-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bronze Age<\/a>\u00a0and the first Christian nation as early as the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century AD. But lies of war spread thick as mud in Ukraine and Azerbaijan as two peas in a similar pod.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u00a0 September 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022, within several hours after Azerbaijan\u2019s Energy Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseySnell\/status\/1569443706553651201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1569443706553651201%7Ctwgr%5Ebce978406db422453b637011bf498343d5851cf6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Flarge-scale-fighting-breaks-out-between-armenia-azerbaijan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bragged<\/a>\u00a0that its gas exports to Europe are increasing by 30% this year, Azerbaijan was attacking Armenia. No doubt the Baku government is opting to flex its energy-rich muscle militarily against Armenia, fully exploiting the dire circumstance Europe finds itself, desperately needing fuel to heat its homes this winter. Plain as day, Azerbaijan is opportunistically seizing the initiative with its energy-rich capital, immediately cashing it in as a bargaining chip to launch yet another first strike military offensive igniting yet another potential war, this time directly at Armenia, fully taking advantage counting on the West\u2019s weakening power and energy dependence to remain silently passive to criticize another round of unprovoked Azeri aggression. Guaranteed, the preferential propagandized treatment of \u201csave Ukraine at all cost\u201d will definitely not be forthcoming with Western hyped unity rallying bandwagon support for the defense of the Armenian Republic. After all, defending Armenia runs completely counter to the globalist Western agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Per NATO, the US and EU, the West has eagerly sought any and all opportunity to weaken Russia by intentionally stirring up sufficient regional conflict and tension to entice Putin to commit yet more Russian troops on the ground fighting on yet another warfront opening up. This is precisely the Western motive quietly urging behind-the-scenes Azerbaijan to launch yet another timed offensive against their hated Christian enemy, the Armenians. Small energy-poor nations like Armenia on the grand geopolitics chessboard are used as mere cannon fodder and collateral damage in the elites\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-elite-the-great-game-and-world-war-iii\/25160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">great game<\/a>\u201d of its \u201clong war.\u201d Speaking of which, on June 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022, the Rothschild owned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2022\/06\/30\/how-to-win-ukraines-long-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a>\u00a0headline read \u201cHow to win Ukraine\u2019s long war,\u201d declaring in its opening sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ukraine won the short war. Mobile and resourceful, its troops inflicted terrible losses and confounded Russian plans to take Kyiv.\u00a0<strong>Now comes the long war<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>[<strong>Emboldened\u00a0<\/strong>by for emphasis].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan contacted by phone Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. According to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/newsrnd.com\/news\/2022-09-13-putin-and-pashinyan-discuss-escalation-on-the-armenia-azerbaijan-border.rJgwR9Tes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sputnik<\/a>\u00a0News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pashinyan conveyed to the Russian President the details of the provocative and aggressive actions carried out by the Azerbaijani armed forces towards the sovereign territory of Armenia, which began at midnight and was accompanied by artillery and heavy weapons fire.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though no mention of any formal request was made for Russia to militarily intervene against the Azeris, if so, it would fall right into the West\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alethonews.com\/2022\/09\/13\/resuming-of-azeri-armenian-conflict-would-be-quite-suitable-for-the-political-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">game-plan<\/a>, aimed at stretching the Moscow army thinner, having to fight on two separately engineered warfronts, compliments of the West. Speaking of which, Nikol Pashinyan also reportedly reached out to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French President Emmanuel Macron for support. Little doubt that Blinken must be pleased by this latest news of renewed conflict, knowing it\u2019s providing one more border headache for Putin. But as the leading US diplomat, Blinken has to keep his excitement to himself, instead expressing his phony, obligatory \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/fresh-fighting-erupts-between-azerbaijan-armenia\/32031031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deep concern<\/a>\u201d over the situation of \u201creported [Azeri] strikes against settlements and civilian infrastructure\u201d in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Russian Foreign Ministry reported a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/fresh-fighting-erupts-between-azerbaijan-armenia\/32031031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cease-fire<\/a>\u00a0was reached by Tuesday morning at 9AM Moscow time, Azeri media insisted that the cease-fire collapsed within minutes and border fighting persists. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/32032858.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Radio Free Europe<\/a>, early on September 14<sup>th<\/sup>, the Armenian Defense Ministry maintains that Azerbaijan has again \u201cresumed shelling\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization, Armenia has appealed to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1lurer.am\/en\/2022\/09\/13\/Armenia%E2%80%99s-Government-appealed-to-Russia-UN-Security-Council-and-CSTO-regarding-aggression-against-t\/793986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CSTO<\/a>\u00a0for assistance, other members being Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. When on January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2022\/01\/csto-deploys-to-kazakhstan-at-tokayevs-request\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kazakhstan<\/a>\u00a0president requested support from the CSTO, Armenia as part of the CSTO detachment immediately sent troops to Kazakhstan to quell the anti-government uprising. Yet apparently when it comes to Armenia falling under outside attack, there is no reciprocation. Back in July 2021 when Azerbaijan breeched Armenia\u2019s sovereign borders, the CSTO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asbarez.com\/csto-rejects-yerevans-appeal-for-help-in-armenia-border-breach-by-azerbaijan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rejected<\/a>\u00a0Yerevan\u2019s appeal for help. As a small landlocked Christian nation flanked by two larger hostile Islamic Turkic nations \u2013 Turkey to the West and Azerbaijan to the east, Yerevan in the past has sought security primarily from its allied neighbor Russia, the world\u2019s largest geographical military power that stationed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alethonews.com\/2022\/09\/13\/resuming-of-azeri-armenian-conflict-would-be-quite-suitable-for-the-political-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2,000<\/a>\u00a0Russian soldiers serving as peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh after the last Baku invasion in late 2020. Both Russia and Armenia are also mutual Eurasian Economic Union members.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of response from the West to oppose Azerbaijan\u2019s unlawful aggression has everything to do with welcoming [if not instigating] instability on Russia\u2019s border as well as Armenia historically remaining a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/08\/11\/armenia-russia-iran-azerbaijan-turkey-nagorno-karabakh-security-small-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">close ally<\/a>\u00a0with Russia, largely rejecting the West\u2019s efforts to court favor in making Armenia its latest anti-Russian geopolitical pawn. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2015\/05\/07\/why-armenia-turned-to-russia-instead-of-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>\u00a0explanation back in May 2015 isn\u2019t so blunt but far more pragmatic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One-third of Armenia\u2019s exports go to Russia and its partners, including agricultural products on which thousands of jobs depend. In addition, Russia sells natural gas to landlocked, energy-poor Armenia \u2018at quite a good price.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/08\/11\/armenia-russia-iran-azerbaijan-turkey-nagorno-karabakh-security-small-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0article last month articulates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Armenia is]\u00a0<em>a country that in terms of democratic and societal values identifies solidly with the West but that, because of its geography, has befriended the two most heavily sanctioned countries in the world: Russia and Iran.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to this latest Azeri inflicted crisis, in addition to appealing to its closest ally and trade partners for support, right after the Tuesday attacks, Armenia also requested assistance from the UN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1lurer.am\/en\/2022\/09\/13\/Armenia%E2%80%99s-Government-appealed-to-Russia-UN-Security-Council-and-CSTO-regarding-aggression-against-t\/793986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Security Council<\/a>, although realistically it stands as much chance of support as endangered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20220205-israel-and-the-silent-genocide-of-palestinian-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Palestinians<\/a>\u00a0against deadly Israeli aggressors that year upon year go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>With America\u2019s long-term cold war strategy to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/598290-to-further-isolate-russia-the-west-must-support-its-neighbors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">encircle<\/a>\u00a0its targeted enemies \u2013 both Russia and China with Western allied NATO members, for decades the CIA and its cutout fronts within US State Department, USAID and various other spook-controlled NGO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrongkindofgreen.org\/2012\/04\/17\/how-the-cia-operates-through-non-governmental-agencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">operatives<\/a>, all subversively courting numerous Eurasian neighbors that border the Eastern powers for pro-West NATO membership. Four days prior to launching its Special Military Operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/russia-us-dragging-european-countries-nato-join-alliance-1337890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lavrov<\/a>\u00a0accurately asserted that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The West is advancing its brazen policy of dragging this region into NATO in total disregard of the countries\u2019 people, in addition to ignoring the lessons of history or simple diplomatic courtesies.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As such, the Western puppets have recently shown their true megalomaniacal colors in their relentless, never-ending provocation to ignite a potential nuclear\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/2022\/09\/joachim-hagopian-elites-are-racing-humanity-to-madness-off-the-armageddon-cliff\/\">world war<\/a>\u00a0with both Russia over Ukraine as well as China over the growing Taiwan conflict. Following their puppet masters\u2019 orders, madness prevails. The powder keg fuse is now lit in Europe under globalist command cadence to World War III countdown. To illustrate, a September 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0<em>Global Research<\/em>\u00a0article by journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/explosive-situation-europe\/5793145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manlio Dinucci<\/a>\u00a0sets the sober stage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sanctions on Russia are preventing Gazprom from operating North Stream 1, the only one bringing Russian gas to Germany after the forced closure of its sister pipeline, North Stream 2. The Kremlin reports that\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>\u2018Sanctions imposed by the EU, UK, US and Canada have disrupted the technical maintenance system of turbine components that ensured pumping.\u2019<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0The U.S.-EU strategy is clear: to prevent Europe from receiving Russian gas at low prices<\/em>\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=39390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rothschild owned<\/a>\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0didn\u2019t hesitate interviewing \u201cAzerbaijan-Armenia expert\u201d Laurence Broers of the Rothschild controlled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/concisepolitics.com\/2017\/05\/04\/british-israel-rothschilds-top-think-tank-for-faked-wars-chatham-house-riia-the-royal-institute-of-international-affairs-1920\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chatham House<\/a>\u00a0think tank, expounding on Russia invading \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/why-are-armenia-azerbaijan-fighting-again-why-does-it-matter-2022-09-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0is a key factor\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Since February, we also have been seeing the collapse of Russia\u2019s reputation as a security patron and a provider of security in the region. That has created a window of opportunity for Azerbaijan, recalling that the outcome of the second Karabakh war in 2020 left unfinished business. I think there is a feeling in Azerbaijan to that now is the time to deploy its power to military advantage and extract the maximum it can get.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The large Armenian diaspora in the US, estimated at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/states-with-the-largest-populations-of-armenian-americans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">10 million<\/a>, three times the number of Armenians in Republic of Armenia, also exercises considerable lobbying clout in Washington DC, wielding influence on Armenian politics. Even with its potent and persistent lobbying effort, it took the United States until\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/24\/politics\/armenian-genocide-biden-erdogan-turkey\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021<\/a>, before it officially recognized the 1915 Armenian genocide perpetrated by Turkey during World War I and final days of its Ottoman Empire. For many decades American strategic military interest to placate NATO member\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armenianweekly.com\/2022\/04\/20\/bidens-recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide-ended-the-us-denial-of-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Turkey<\/a>, where two key US airbases are located, caused America to formally resist recognizing last century\u2019s first genocide of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/turkish-prime-minister-offers-condolences-to-armenians-for-genocide\/5379069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1.5 million<\/a>\u00a0Armenians murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Armenia has long been courted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/armenia-chooses-russia-over-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">join the West<\/a>\u00a0as another anti-Russian neighbor, but the US has failed to lure Yerevan. As a result, this dynamic operates in every recent past war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as a US pattern of tacit approval encouraging Azerbaijan aggression to enflame conflict in order to destabilize the wider region bordering Russia, particularly after Armenia in recent years chose to maintain closer relations with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2015\/05\/07\/why-armenia-turned-to-russia-instead-of-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moscow<\/a>\u00a0than the West, which is exactly the reason why the Obama-Hillary-Victoria Nuland neocons honed in to destabilize\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moderndiplomacy.eu\/2018\/06\/04\/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0in 2014. Similar geopolitical dynamics of the Ukraine conflict apply to Armenia with the flagrant US attempts to instigate a color revolution in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/peaceful-protests-in-armenia-bringing-democracy-or-east-vs-west-showdown\/5638399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yerevan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that it was right after the democratically elected Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych reaffirmed Kiev\u2019s ties with Putin in 2013 that the neocons, still dictating US foreign policy to this day, spent $5 billion financing and inciting an illegal violent coup in Kiev by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-truth-behind-the-crisis-in-ukraine-us-covert-manipulation-and-the-resurging-cold-war\/5372408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 2014<\/a>, installing its neo-Nazi Maidan puppet government, and ever since using the carrot stick of EU and NATO membership to ratchet up hostilities and hatred toward ethnic Russians living in the Donbas region as well as Crimea and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The US and NATO forced Putin\u2019s hand as Ukraine\u2019s continual violation of its signed Minsk Agreement to refrain from further violence in the Donbas region went unheeded, killing nearly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/world-news\/russia-ukraine-crisis\/ukraine-russia-war-ukraine-involved-in-genocide-in-donbass-region-claims-russia-articleshow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">14,000<\/a>\u00a0ethnic Russians (from 2014 to just\u00a0<strong>prior to<\/strong>\u00a0this year\u2019s Putin intervention) in the two breakaway eastern provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk that in a 2014 referendum voted to separate from Ukraine. And it was after the US, NATO and mercenary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6076035\/erik-prince-ukraine-private-army\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eric Prince<\/a>\u00a0training 150,000 Ukrainian Nazi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article215489.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">soldiers<\/a>\u00a0in preparation for a Donbas invasion that in self-defense prompted the Putin request that the wrongly demonized Russian leader finally decided to launch his Special Military Operation into Ukraine, to de-Nazify and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/world\/demilitarise-and-denazify-how-vladimir-putin-justifies-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-10405181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">demilitarize<\/a>\u00a0Kiev. It is now confirmed that a joint invasion by both US\/NATO and Ukraine was imminently forcing Putin\u2019s hand to come to the aid of his fellow ethnic Russians in Donbas. Moreover, with the dozens of discovered illegal bioweapon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesroguski.substack.com\/p\/the-us-department-of-defense-funded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">labs<\/a>\u00a0funded by the US Department of Defense located inside Ukraine, alleged working on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/documents-drop-us-funded-ukraine-biolabs-russia-accuses-us-government-making-race-based-bioagents-transporting-insects-bats-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pathogens<\/a>\u00a0that can genetically target and attack the ethnic Russian genome, Putin was left with no other choice but to intervene. The West\u2019s refusal to recognize Russia\u2019s right to its own national security forced Putin to act. Yet Ukraine and Western media deceitfully accuse Russia as the unprovoked invader, which is a boldface propaganda lie.<\/p>\n<p>With fork tongue, this is how the US has always operated, ever since breaking countless peace treaties with Native American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/native-american-broken-treaties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tribes<\/a>\u00a0throughout the 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries, to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mltoday.com\/new-document-us-promised-not-to-expand-nato-eastward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">promising<\/a>\u00a0in February 1990 the last Soviet leader, the late Mikhail Gorbachev, that \u201cnot one inch eastward\u201d would US led NATO go. Really no different from Kiev never intending to honor its commitment with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.almayadeen.net\/news\/politics\/kiev-disregarding-minsk-agreements-with-french-german-conniv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minsk Agreement<\/a>, the US\/NATO never intended to refrain from actively recruiting Russia\u2019s neighbors to turn against Moscow as hostile NATO members with US nukes pointed directly at Russia. When one assesses this larger geopolitical picture based on historical facts, the West behind its pathological obsession for unipolar hegemony at all cost that has always driven America\u2019s hyperaggressive, warlike foreign policy machine for centuries, invading and overthrowing 75 countries while killing more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ushypocrisy.com\/2020\/04\/25\/u-s-presidents-have-killed-30-million-people-in-dozens-of-countries-since-the-end-of-wwii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">30 million<\/a>\u00a0fellow human beings since WWII alone. But then the puppets in Washington DC have always been under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sovereignaustralian.org\/masters-of-puppets-the-vatican-city-the-city-of-london-and-the-city-of-washington-dc-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">direct control<\/a>\u00a0of the City of London-<a href=\"https:\/\/pedoempire.org\/chapter-27-the-rothschild-banking-dynasty-how-zionist-luciferian-overlords-came-to-rule-the-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rothschild<\/a>\u00a0central banking cartel and the Vatican, increasingly over this last century, engineering and backing both sides in every global conflict for more than two full centuries.\u00a0 And it\u2019s within this historical context that today\u2019s world teeters closer to nuclear annihilation than any previous time in our recorded human history.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the 1994 war, Armenians have successfully defended their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/october\/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-azerbaijan-christian-muslim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ancient homeland<\/a>\u00a0as residents living in Nagorno-Karabakh for millennia, long prior to the existence of either the Azeri people or nation. The sovereign Armenians living for centuries in the breakaway enclave prevailed in that 1994 war, as Azerbaijani residents residing in Nagorno-Karabakh fled to nearby Azerbaijan territory.<\/p>\n<p>Right after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the brutal winding down of WWI in 1918 while the Armenians in eastern Turkey were still being massacred, by 1920 a short-lived two-year Armenian national government found itself stuck between a rock and a hard place, risking total annihilation by the Turks or capitulating to the demands of the advancing Russian army from the east, choosing the latter as its optimal chance of ending the genocide. To entice a reluctant Armenia to become an outer Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), on November 30, 1920, the new Soviet government of Azerbaijan SSR issued a proclamation that the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave would belong to the Armenian SSR since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/global-conflict-tracker\/conflict\/nagorno-karabakh-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">95%<\/a>\u00a0of its population was Armenian. However,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainous-karabakh.org\/book_08.html#.YyCYuXZBzIU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josef Stalin<\/a>\u00a0as Moscow\u2019s Commissar for Nationalities, in hopes of spreading Communism to Turkey, made a last-minute deal on behalf of fellow Turkic brethren the Azeris, to grant Nagorno-Karabakh and two other small disputed Armenian enclaves to Azerbaijan SSR. Hence, the fateful die was cast to deny Armenians their rightful homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Stalin and his burgeoning Soviet Empire also backstabbed Armenians in order to purposely set up divide and rule, permanently embedding contentious seeds of conflict that would boil over 70 years later with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Since Armenia and Azerbaijan were both outer state republics, the Georgian Stalin ensured that each conquered SSR would inherently remain adversarial, that way more easily controlled by third party Moscow, betrayingly handing over to Azerbaijan SSR ancient Armenian Artsakh. During the Soviet Empire while a genocidal Communist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0%2C7340%2CL-3342999%2C00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">regime<\/a>\u00a0ruled with a totalitarian iron fist, by design the unsettled conflict was delayed and deferred for the next seven decades until both Armenia and Azerbaijan emerged in 1991 as newly independent nations. But less than three years into their independence, they came to loggerheads over Nagorno-Karabakh. Though its population was still overwhelmingly Armenian, in 1993 and 1994 Azerbaijan went to war against the Armenian residents. Artsakh received additional assistance from loyal fellow Armenians in the Republic of Armenia. After losing the war, Azerbaijan appealed to the UN which through the feeble OSCE Minsk adjudicator (Organization for Security and Cooperation), again decided in favor of the Baku government which of course failed to remedy the conflict at all. Left to its own devices, ever since Azerbaijan has been chomping at the bit for ultimate revenge, repeatedly attempting to militarily conquer Artsakh.<\/p>\n<p>In early April 2016, the largest flareup since the 1994 war broke out, triggered within hours after Azeri President Ilham Aliyev returned from a Washington DC visit with Secretary of State, the Skull and Bonesman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-nagorno-karabakh-story-the-us-does-not-want-you-to-know\/5519678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Kerry<\/a>, who had granted Azerbaijan the greenlight to invade the disputed Armenian territory. Note the pattern, tacit West approval within hours of the 2016 attack on Armenia and Tuesday morning\u2019s attack after Baku assures 30% more energy-starved gas is coming to Europe. Each side during the fours days of fierce fighting in April 2016 lost about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-talks\/28797554.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">75 soldiers<\/a>. So far this week a total of 100 died.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Azeri dictator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/a-13-a-2003-10-31-12-ilham-66300762\/542054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ilham Aliyev<\/a>\u00a0inherited the job in 2003 from his father who had been president since 1993 but stepped down with his health failing, swearing on numerous occasions to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/307251\/israels-shortsighted-alliance-with-baku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wipe Armenia<\/a>\u00a0off the face of the earth.\u201d Ever since Azerbaijan lost that 1994 war to the Armenians, with a total death toll of about 30,000, Aliyev has remained a corrupt, seething, bloodthirsty loser vowing to punish Armenians for even existing.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the US and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/307251\/israels-shortsighted-alliance-with-baku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a>\u00a0as well as Russia, competing with the West to remain an Azeri ally, all have been busily selling their latest technological advanced weaponry that oil rich Azerbaijan could buy. And though the 2016 conflict proved a 4-day stalemate, it was clear in 2020 that the Azeris were gaining a decidedly upper hand and far more lethal arms advantage than Armenia. So that by the time Aliyev launched his latest war in September 2020, the Armenians were badly outgunned, out-droned and outmanned. Hence, when the fighting stopped 44-days later after 6,500 lives perished, Putin brokered another fragile cease-fire, but the spoils of war went to the aggressor Azerbaijan, granted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mirrorspectator.com\/2022\/02\/10\/aliyevs-war-on-armenian-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">75%<\/a>\u00a0of Nagorno-Karabakh that again, had rightly remained an ancient Armenian homeland long before the Azeri people came-to-be walking upright. In the meantime, every Armenian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mirrorspectator.com\/2022\/02\/10\/aliyevs-war-on-armenian-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">church<\/a>\u00a0and every trace of Armenian culture is being wiped off the face of ancient Artsakh as the first phase of Aliyev\u2019s revenge.<\/p>\n<p>After a March 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0flareup earlier this year, both Pashinyan and Aliyev in April agreed to peace talks. But that prospect broke down after the Azeri proposal insisted that the rest of Nagorno-Karabakh goes completely to Azerbaijan and Armenian Defense Minister Ararat Mirzoyan\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/7\/armenia-azerbaijan-gear-up-for-nagorno-karabakh-peace-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a territorial issue, but a matter of rights<\/em>\u00a0[for local residents to decide].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, with the sinister trap laid down 102 years ago by Communist genocidal murderer Stalin, in all likelihood Azerbaijan will continue claiming both more of the disputed Armenian enclave as well as increasingly mount more challenges to directly conquering the Republic of Armenia as well, having publicly vowed nearly three decades ago to wipe Armenia off the map entirely. Hence, Tuesday\u2019s middle of the night sneak attack is only a preview of what\u2019s to come \u2013 more violent escalation and brutal war.<\/p>\n<p>In this entered age of total lawlessness, where might makes right and rule of law means nothing, when only the false pretense is given to complying with \u201cinternational rule of law,\u201d today it\u2019s actually turned into law of the jungle, no different from the globalists deliberately setting the stage for countless people to die of mass starvation frozen in their Dark Winter homes. Under these brutally dire conditions fast descending on this Earth, again where lawlessness of the jungle prevails and whoever can proficiently kill for food stands the best chance of surviving, particularly in leftist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/07\/20\/woke_corporate_support_of_blm_has_deadly_consequences_147919.html#!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">woke corporate<\/a>\u00a0sponsored American cities where the deadly consequences of BLM, Antifa and organized gangs now criminally ruling the streets,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-breakdown-of-civil-society-part-1-reflections-in-a-broken-mirror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">civil society breakdown<\/a>\u00a0has now run amok.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defconnews.com\/2021\/12\/21\/us-cities-hit-homicide-highs-in-2021-but-blm-and-antifa-infested-portland-may-be-the-worst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Homicide<\/a>\u00a0highs are spreading nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The nightmare of the modern dystopian city is but a microcosm of the globalist macrocosm that is earth under the elites\u2019 totalitarian technocratic dictatorship police state. Unless the psychopathic controllers and their Great Reset are overturned and defeated very soon by We the People committed to fight for both our freedom and lives for the sake of preserving the human race, smart cities super surveillance, digitalized endgame enslavement are in store for all of us who survive this genocidal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/2022\/09\/joachim-hagopian-elites-are-racing-humanity-to-madness-off-the-armageddon-cliff\/\">assault of the ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/2022\/09\/joachim-hagopian-azerbaijan-attacks-armenia-amidst-the-globalist-countdown-to-ww-iii\/\">https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/2022\/09\/joachim-hagopian-azerbaijan-attacks-armenia-amidst-the-globalist-countdown-to-ww-iii\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AZERBAIJAN ATTACKS ARMENIA AMIDST THE GLOBALIST COUNTDOWN TO WW III Joachim Hagopian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}