Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in conflict. But the tides are shifting in favor of Azerbaijan, thanks to several things.
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Well let’s hope Peter is as correct about this as with most of his analysis of anything to do with Trump. It would be nice to see a lasting peace in the region.
Poor analysis. Expected more depth.
You are a liar. Talking out of your arse. If you don’t know the topic, don’t make up information. Armenia did not attack Azerbaijan. Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) has been part of Armenia for thousands of years and continuously inhabited by Armenians. It was Stalin who gave it to Azeris. It was an independent Oblast under USSR. when USSR collapsed, Armenians of Artsakh declared their independence as well and 97% voted for self determination. Azeris attacked & Armenians were surrounded & defenseless. Russians did not help at all. It was Armenians volunteers who United to save fellow Armenians. Azeris are Turks, just like the Turks who committed the Armenian Genocide to steal Armenian lands after Greeks & other Balkans states were able to liberate themself from the Turkish yolk. Turks afraid that Armenia might be next, they committed Genocide that uprooted Armenians from their thousands of years old indigenous homeland. While Turks were committing Genocide in Western Armenia, Azeri Tatar Turks were burning down Armebian cities like Shushi in Artsakh to completely Ethnically Cleanse the population. In 2020 attavk against Artsakh, Azeri Turks used tactics no different than ISIS to Ethnically Cleanse Armenians from their homeland. Thousands of churches attest whose land it is. They were accompanied by NATO Turkish forces, Pakistanis and Syrian terrorists & Israeli specialists
I don't understand why having an international road on the southern border is the end or armenia as we know it. They will not be cut off from trading with Iran for sure. As far as I know Trump Road is not gonna wall off their border. At the same time Armenia will be more integrated to the region and the west through Turkey. Also, Armenia is not prospering as is, without the corridor. I don't imagine it will be a disaster when it mends its relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan. Turkey, essentially is not an enemy of Armenia both in state's and people's eyes. A mutually beneficial partnership would help Armenia tremendously.
Dear Peter , so called The Armenian genocide is a big lie. if it was true the world have sued Turkiye for all of it . The truth is , Armenians killing Muslim neighbors with Russian weapons. Due to this reason Armenians were displaced from East Turkiye to Levant. and in the same time world war 1 is going on and the conditions are very bad. There have never been 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Empire. Yes there are lives lost and they have killed many Muslim Citizens. Today all the Armenians you see around the world are result of this sad event (displacement) but they are the Murderers of Their Neighbors. But if Ottoman Empire has killed these people there would not have been Armenians around the world. I really like and follow your videos but please cross check this information without bias. west is lying but it wont change the truth.
“Armenians are a relatively old people.”
Sir, Armenia is on the oldest map in existence.
The map shown is shit. Confusing. Try better next time.
Hi Peter, thank you for your analysis — overall your description is insightful. I actually read some of your books a few years ago and appreciated your perspective. However, I felt that you somewhat underestimated Armenians when you suggested that Armenians attacked Azerbaijani territory. Historically, Armenians have never initiated aggression against neighboring countries. In fact, the lands you referenced were originally Armenian territories, and it was Lenin and Stalin’s tragic political decision in the 1920s that reassigned them — creating instability that still haunts the region today.
As one of the world’s oldest nations and the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion, Armenians have always sought peace, security, and stability. At the same time, we are known worldwide for our warmth and hospitality — welcoming friends and strangers alike with open hearts. These values of peace and generosity have defined us for centuries and continue to guide us today.
Can you make an agreement with the Turkish scorpions the Azeris? Let us see how long it will last, the Azeris need to give back all the Armenian lands they took from Armenia.
Did you intentionally omit that Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) is the Armenian toponym and that Armenians have lived there since at least the 6th century BCE? You also skipped the fact that Turkic groups arrived from Central Asia much later (commonly dated to 1071 CE). The Armenian churches in Artsakh some over 1,700 years old predate both Turkic settlement and the emergence of Islam. You further left out how Stalin placed Artsakh inside the newly created Azerbaijan SSR, and how the modern state’s name was literally taken from Iran’s historical province of Azerbaijan, a choice many view as strategic. Worthy of mentioning, the word Azerbaijan is an amalgamation of two words in Farsi, which come from Iran’s Zoroastrian religious period. The two words in Farsi: Adjar (fire) bayajan (protector/foundation) which is the bases of the Zoroastrian religion. Most troubling, you ignored the Azerbaijani-Israeli military partnership during 2020–2023, which I view as enabling a genocide of attrition against roughly 150,000 Armenians in Artsakh (in two phases). This isn’t a minor oversight: even basic searches on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict reveal patterns of dispossession that many Armenians experience as yet another genocide, but this time tied to regional calculations around Iran and the push for a corridor that would sever Armenia’s historic border with Iran.
Finally, Azerbaijan’s 1918 formation occurred on territories historically associated with Iran (Shirvan) and Armenia. Comparing Azerbaijan’s modern nationhood to Armenia’s continuity overlooks genetic, linguistic, and archaeological evidence placing Armenian presence back to the Bronze Age.
As a whole, your account erases core historical context, sidesteps the modern alliance dynamics that shaped 2020–2023, and flattens a millennia-long Armenian presence in Artsakh.
Armenia did not invade your misleading, the region of was inhabited by Armenian thats why
Peter is reflexively negative towards anything Trump is involved in, so take this analysis with a grain of salt.
Southern Armenia is already locked out, Azerbaijan will.never let Armenia have any footing anyhwree near Azerbaijan. Yiu do not know much about the Caucasus. It wull work becuase China is invested in it and Russia will be oulled in and Iran will be oulled in, you dont understand Turkish politics, Turkey weaves a carpet, doesn roll iver with a bulldozer. Russia is nto in the postiim to open anothwr front, becaue they will.lose Syria and lota of other places.
Lits of things worked in the Caucasus and this one will work because nobody has another option
Azerbaijanis assimilated Turks and took thwir langauge, Azerbaijanis are still the ancient nation rhat live dint he area for thousands of year. Armenia is jew to the Caucasus they were settled int he Caucasus by Russia n tzar in 1828 en mass. Armenians come form Iran, Syria and Turkey's east . That is why thwy do not have anytbing in common with the people of Caucasus and tgat is why they stolw every cuktural aspect that bwlonga to the Caucasus peoples from its neighbours. There is no Armenian culture.
This is one way for Trump to further weaken the Russians in the Caucasus.
Correction: there is no legal continuity between the young turk government responsible for genocide and the republic of Turkey. Stating that Turkey is "the country that committed genocide" when the country didn't even exist is a bit over the top. Just needs to be said.
Hostile country you mean your nato ally ?
Your version is short and incorrect.
İngilizce bilmek zorunda değiliz!!!🇹🇷
Armenia was there for thousands of years. If you study history of that area you will see that even 700 years ago there was no Turkey nor Azerbaijan, which was Armenian, Assyrian, Greeks, Romans lands with millions of Armenians.
Why America, Britain, Germany, Italy and other Christian countries are not thinking and not taking sympathy about small Christian nation of Armenian's have genocide by Islamic country of Turks (Ottoman empire) in 1915.
Insanely out of touch with reality.
Armenians did not invade any territories, I wish you learn the subject better before making statements to avoid false information spreading. Armenians are indigenous people of Artsakh, the territory you call Nagorno Karabakh, this territory has been taken away from Armenian people as well as Nakhidgevan which translates as the place of descent referring to the place where Noah’s ark landed.
Correction: In 1989 Armenians didn't invade Karabakh. Please do your diligent research and correct this. The Artsakh area was ancient with ancient names, with its distinct Armenia. Population and stepanakert as its capital.
Also, Russia was never Armenia's ally. They sold more weapons to Azerbaijan than to Armenia. They never recognized Artsakh. They never helped Armenia resolve the territorial issues.
STFU you don't know what you're talking about. Azerbaijan is an Israeli minion and they're going to pay heavily for that.
Peter, "corridor"is a loaded term in this context and you used it multiple times. It is a road or a route, not a corridor, and no foreign military forces will have physical conrol over it. Hence, TRIPP, Trump ROUTE for International Peace and Prosperity.
Correction: Turkey did not perpetrate the Armenian Genocide. It was the Ottoman Empire. The two are vastly different. It's as big as the difference between your father and you.
So Ukraine war has lost Russia both Syria and Armenia. And Iran.
Azerbaijani defense budget is larger than Armenian gdp? Bro what are you talking about? Azerbaijani budget 4,5 billion Armenian gdp 12 billion in 2020. Stop making things up.. also no Azerbaijanis did not lobby Trump to make a deal, Azerbaijan has free rein as it is much stronger than Armenia, it could invade yet because of Trump's involvement we got a kinda peaceful deal.
Why do you talk on such subjects when you have 0 knowledge of the wars? "Azerbaijan purged karabakh of Armenian troops" yes including 100k civilians 🤦
Also a great conclusion: "if the deal works Armenia is dead as a state" any explanation of how?
No mention of Pashinyan's Crossroads of Peace 2023, a successful start to border delimitation, pressure on Azerbaijan from the EU and USA, large Armenian diasporas in France and the USA, the beginning of EU accession talks by Armenia, the removal of Russian border guards from Zvartnots airport, the refusal of the Armenian government to participate in or financially contribute to the CSTO. A lot missing here unfortunately.
There was no genocide! Period! Only one was Khodjali done by Armenia 30 years ago.
Dear Fellow Armenians, I saw some of you complaining that Azerbaijanis did an ethnic cleansing. But where were you when your Azerbaijani neighbours were in exile because of the Pre-Pashinyan, russian puppet regimes. Why were not you complaining that our Azeri neibghbours were expelled by our government. Now you are in a same situation. Why noone were complaining that in Sunik(Zangezur) there were almost half million Azeri population, why were they expelled? I am as an Azerbaijani agree and really want Armenians to return to Khankendi, Karabakh. But I also want Azeris to return to Zangezur, Gapan, Ararat, Dilijan, Icevan. In 1988 last 200k people left Zangezur and Ararat, now their children, descendants are about a million and they have all the documents in their hand that they were Armenian citizens. Would you accept that people to return?
My grandpa is originally from Harich village near Gyumri. Before the name of village was Kipchak, you changed it to Harich (means bee keeper in old Kipchak language). There was a church called Kipchakvang you changed it to Harichvang. We were christian Kipchaks and our religion was monofisit Armenian orthodoxy. Because of you our people lost their religion and became like muslims.
Sorry you kissed a lot of important points. This is NOT a good analysis of the situation. Russia actively sabotaged Armenia during 2020 and the subsequent ethnic cleansing in 2023. Its nit that they couldn’t, but they wanted to punish the democratically elected president and bring back their cronies after the lost war. In fact they are still trying to stick anything on the current government to get him ousted. Won’t work.
since when this dude turned into an azeri asset 😅
Neveimd that those lands were historically populated by ethnic Armenians?
Turks are Turks, azeris and anatolian turks are Oghuz from central asia, they migrated from central asia to the caucasus and anatolia in 1050aD and won the battle of Manzikert vs the byzantines and settled allover the caucasus, north iran and anatolia, they are not native to the caucasus, azerbaijan is a country created in 1920 by the soviets, there was no such country before 1920. Its an evergoing war circle that now ended and will restart and will end etc etc..