Another blast from the Eighties:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/armenia-heavy-fighting-in-nagorno-karabakh-helicopter-hit/2016/04/02/9396dd14-f89f-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_story.html
Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again. This time the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh are posting pictures of the dead Azeris (a bad PR move) and it's given Putin an unexpected chance to be a genuine statesman and peacemaker if he decides to take it. Or given his prior pattern he'll just bomb shit to ashes and choose to take a leaf out of the US book and initiate major force without any clear goal or endgame as to what the force is theoretically intended to achieve. But in any event in the midst of surprising chaos, here's some that actually fits right into prior patterns fairly niftily. The more things change, the less some of them change.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again. This time the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh are posting pictures of the dead Azeris (a bad PR move) and it's given Putin an unexpected chance to be a genuine statesman and peacemaker if he decides to take it. Or given his prior pattern he'll just bomb shit to ashes and choose to take a leaf out of the US book and initiate major force without any clear goal or endgame as to what the force is theoretically intended to achieve. But in any event in the midst of surprising chaos, here's some that actually fits right into prior patterns fairly niftily. The more things change, the less some of them change.