Armenia will hold exercises with the US in a period of tensions with Russia

 

Armenia will hold exercises with the US in a period of tensions with Russia

Fernando Abans

The war in Nagorno-Karabakh reactivated a conflict that had been on and off for many years. The problem was how the alliances were working because Russian support to the Armenian government was more of a mediator than the one supposed from an ally. The problem for Russia was clear: supporting Armenia meant going against Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey. For that reason, the only way to avoid a conflict with Turkey, an important country in the current invasion of Ukraine, was to be more in the middle of the conflict and not siding for Armenia in a conflicted way. This created a crisis within not only the Armenian government, but also within Armenian society who started taking places far from their Russian neighbour. This has ended even with a support to the Ukrainian cause and a closer relationship with the United States, which has ended up with these exercises taking place in Armenian territory.

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