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Armenian Defeat is Our Defeat
*Content Warning* genocide, ethnic cleansing, suicide bombing, drones, war trauma
Azerbaijan used drones they bought from both Turkey and Israel to kill thousands of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh which Armenians call Artsakh. The Turks trained them in how to use the drones as well as sending mercenaries to help the fight, some of whom were actual ISIS members. (This is not even the first time Azerbaijan used such drones against the Armenians either, they first used Israeli drones in 2016 against the Armenians. This is also not the first time ISIS has been involved in violence against Armenians, they destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in 2014.)
The Armenians used drones as well but those were locally made and unable to match the advanced technological warfare of Azerbaijan (which Azerbaijan can only afford because of their Caspian Sea oil money). Devastated by their losses, the Armenians have now surrendered and are giving up that disputed territory to the Azerbaijanis.
No one is calling this a war crime.
Very few are even bothering to talk about it.
Very few are talking about the genuine threat of ethnic cleansing in the region after this Russian brokered “peace deal”.
No one realizes, except astute world leaders, that this conflict, the public silence around it, and its current “resolution”, has changed modern warfare forever.
Rich countries don’t need to send troops into battlefields now. They don’t even need expensive war planes and fighter pilots. All they need to do is buy drones and train technicians in how to use them and they will kill all the poor people on the earth without ever risking any of their precious rich necks.
You do realize that Obama used drones on brown people in the Global South, right? You do realize that under Obama, US cops were militarized to the point of having drones? You do realize that Dallas Police used a drone to kill a black man in July 2016, when Obama was still president?
According to most news reports, the people of the US just put Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden, in power.
Do you know that some of the drones the Azerbaijanis bought were called “Kamikaze” drones? Those are designed to not only…
