Trey Blanton, STEPANAKERT, Artsakh (CINFUSA.org) — Armenians in the Republic of Artsakh woke up on September 13 to an uncertain future after Azerbaijan attacked Armenia in the dead of night.
Armenia’s Ministry of Defense reports Azeri forces hit several villages using drones, artillery, and mortars.
Prime Minister Nicol Pashinyan says 49 Armenian soldiers have died so far in the attack.
Azerbaijan made numerous statements leading up to the attack that Armenia had been provoking the Azeris with small arms fire. This accusation has been rejected by Armenia as misinformation.
The Ambassador-at-Large for Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on social media that Armenia would seek assistance from the United Nations Security Council, as well as the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has made several claims since the Azeri-Armeno War of 2020 that Armenian territory rightfully belongs to the Azeris.
The ongoing conflict, therefore, is no surprise as Aliyev eyes his neighbor’s lands like a mad dog with a bone just out of his reach.
What is surprising, however, is the number of people who support Aliyev’s genocidal ambitions.
Luke Coffey is a Senior Fellow with the Hudson Institute. The organization is nominally considered a conservative think-tank for American policy.
Coffey’s social media posts show a surface-level hypocrisy as he cheers for Ukrainian success against Russia’s invasion, but advises that Armenians capitulate to Azeri aggression.
In a previous article, I observed a similar policy with the Heritage Foundation who advises a greater alliance between the United States and Azerbaijan.
What seems to be at the heart of Washington conservatives isn’t a push to hold dictators accountable but to damage Russia, specifically, as thoroughly as possible.
So-called policy experts rarely put their own lives on the line when they advocate destructive policies which continue atrocities like the Armenian Genocide.
Historical precedent bears witness to the outcome of armchair tough guys.
After World War I, Germany was justifiably held accountable for the war. However, the highly punitive Treaty of Versailles was so economically crippling and humiliating, that it allowed for the rise of Adolph Hitler.
Contrast the outcome with World War II. Germany was divided between the US-European allies and the Soviet Union. In order to demonstrate the barbarity of communism, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan which rebuilt western Berlin and promoted Germany into a stable European power.
If American policymakers foment war and poverty in other corners of the world, you take a small problem today and turn it into a massive one tomorrow.
What is needed in policy is to maintain a moral consistency. You cannot support evil from one sector while tolerating it in another.
In more recent history, during America’s war in Afghanistan, U.S. opposition to the barbaric Taliban could be seen as a good policy. Sharia Law allows Muslims to abuse women and make unrelenting war on Christians.
However, in opposing the Taliban, the US partnered with the traditional village elders and warlords, who took positions with the Afghan army and police.
These supposed allies liked to rape little boys, going so far as to have children chained to their beds within American outposts.
In the United States, the law requires you to stop sexual assaults from taking place, but when Captain Dan Quinn and Sergeant First Class Charles Martland attacked a militia commander for having a sexual slave, Captain Quinn was relieved of command. Azerbaijan is blatantly killing Armenians. If the international community doesn’t condemn the Aliyev regime with the same force it did Russia, the Armenians may no longer have a homeland to speak of.