Humiliated by Azerbaijan, Armenia tacks towards the West

Armenia, US hold joint military drills

2024-08-01  621  中等

Armenians are disillusioned with their erstwhile patron, Russia. Distracted by its war in Ukraine, it failed in 2023 to stop Azerbaijan from conquering Nagorno-Karabakh, formerly an autonomous ethnically Armenian enclave. Both America and European powers are eager to weaken Russia in its traditional backyard. “Much of the population of Armenia wants to get further from Russia. So we’re creating the conditions for that to happen,” said James O’Brien, America’s assistant secretary of state for Europe, on July 30th. But it is a difficult manoeuvre, and Mr Pashinyan is buffeted by winds from multiple directions.

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