The upcoming war in the Caucasus. Azerbaijan and Turkey targeted Armenia. American Conservative

1915 is located on top of a high hill in Yerevan. The monument commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Last month, Azerbaijan, Turkey's close ally in the region, achieved its goal of clearing Nagorno-Karabakh of the ancient Chrysostom community after a 9-month siege, according to News.am, American Conservative wrote.

"After the Second World War, Raphael Lemkin promoted the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at the United Nations Organization. Lemkin defined genocide as "a coordinated plan of various actions aimed at the elimination of a group, the destruction of the foundations of life."

What happened to the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh is a case of genocide, carried out by the Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev. And while the events in Gaza pushed those events into the background in Washington, last week Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy became one of the few presidential candidates to admit that what happened in Nagorno-Karabakh is "probably the most underrated atrocity in the world."

And he was not wrong. The Biden administration accepted the news with a few sharp statements, nothing more.

However, as you can see, something bigger is waiting for Armenia, and the West has little interest in doing anything to prevent it.

Aliyev's next target is the Armenian region of Syunik, which will create a land corridor (also known as the Zangezur Corridor) that will connect Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan, which borders Turkey, thus creating a beneficial link between the two allies.

This does not mean that Azerbaijan and its powerful Turkish sponsor are hiding their plan to invade and annex Armenia. 2022 In December, Aliyev announced that "current Armenia is our land". In the following months, he announced that "we will implement the Zangezur Corridor, whether Armenia likes it or not." Aliyev's patron, the Islamist Erdogan, praised the ethnic cleansing (of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh), calling it an "action" that "ended in a short time, with maximum consideration of the rights of the civilian population."

Anyway, apparently, Aliyev will digest the invasion of the eastern border of Armenia, if the time comes. Why? As Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, explained recently, "Azerbaijan is an ally of the West in the fight against Iran, it supplies Europe with energy and spends millions on modern Israeli weapons." But that need should not prevent the world from stopping what is happening before its eyes: the Armenian Genocide in 2023."

This was not enough; Armenia was cursed to have a small-minded leadership in the hands of a politician named Nikol Pashinyan supported by Soros.

Pashinyan, who has been the Prime Minister since 2018, has what can be called "Anti-Midas". In five years, he managed to drive away the main supporter of the country, Russia, which led to the loss of Nagorno Karabakh and very likely even more. Dr. Pietro Sharakryan, a researcher at the Saint Petersburg Higher School of Economics, noted that "Pashinyan's prime ministership has become a disaster for the Armenian people."

More alarmingly, there is the possibility of a wider regional war if Azerbaijan enters Syunik. First, Iran has expressed its disapproval of that move, and if Russia ends the war in Ukraine, there is a possibility that it will also intervene. Therefore, it is not worth excluding the conflict with the participation of the main players of the region: Russia, Iran and Turkey.

"Unfortunately, the brutal violence of history and politics in Armenia has not yet ended."