Armenia, Azerbaijan in arms race despite peace talks

Azerbaijan and Armenia are in an arms race that threatens to undermine U.S.-backed peace talks between the two Caucasus countries. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.
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[@John-thinks]

Watching as a freedom-loving American, really sad to see our tax dollars arming the military dictatorship of Azerbaijan instead of leaving dollars in the pockets of hard-working Americans.

[@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056]

Your tax dollars ??? Azerbaijan doesn’t need your tax dollars to buy military hardware!

[@lordlex6315]

@@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056azerb!cjan uses U.S. tax dollars to buy from turkeyeyeyey and isra-hell

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

your tax dollars more goes to ukraine

[@phoenix5054]

​@@AslanNadiroglu-ft2slSeeing how humiliated Russia is in the world stage, worth it! 12% of US defense fund + Ukrainian soldiers is apparently enough to rival Russia's "2nd most powerful" military.

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

your tax money goes to armenia not to Azerbaijan, we are not reaponsible about your tax money

[@amazingamazigh6847]

Nagorno Karabach will always be Armenia! I as a Muslim stand with the Armenians!

[@Ukit50]

Pashinyan Armenian PM during interview with Politburo EU, stated that Qarabagh belong to Azerbaijan

[@ArmenianBishop]

@@Ukit50 Gee you're really busy working for the Devil.

[@manotenkerian]

@@Ukit50 he had no choice

[@taimermega6447]

Moenafikh

[@John-thinks]

Lol @ the Azeri "expert" saying that "the house burning" was a collaborative effort between the two countries after they ethnically cleansed 120k people from their homes

[@JN-wr9he]

John doesn’t think too well, does he? 😂 Everyone knows who ethnically cleansed who, and who just left because they didn’t want to recognise the rule of law

[@The_Young_Armenians]

We don’t want war but sadly we are surrounded by neighbors whom we can’t trust. Who will be held accountable if the Azeris decide they want the rest of Armenia? Literally no one. They’re already much stronger than us and are fully supported by Turkey. Armenia will be gone in a blink of an eye if these 2 decide to invade. If u ain’t gonna help us at least don’t stop us from trying to protect ourselves

[@johnbower3002]

Then become allies of the US so no one invades, otherwise you will be because you're just another North Korea

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

stay in your own rubbish country nobody wants to deal with armenians

[@ulvigarayev]

For sure, no one in Azerbaijan wants war, but we want to trust our neighbors. One day, when Armenians attack again to occupy Azerbaijani lands, who will stop them? The UN Security Council? For 30 years they did nothing! The European Union? For 30 years they did nothing! Stop portraying yourselves as "oppressed"! How quickly have you forgotten your "Great Armenia from sea to sea" rhetoric? How quickly have you forgotten the days when you were salivating over "Miatsum", "New war for new lands!", "We will walk the streets of Baku with our tanks!"? It's not a problem that you don't trust us, the whole western world supports you, but how can we trust you?

[@NurlanRehimov-rl3qt]

Но больше чем вы никто так часто не ложится под Иран и Россию😂.

[@SlavaDomnu]

@@NurlanRehimov-rl3qtRussia has done nothing so far for Armenia and is discussing stronger relations with Azerbaijan. Iran never gets involved and wouldnt go to war with a Christian Armenia.

[@sradhandas5174]

Armenia now Importing weopans from India instead of Russia like Air defance system, artilery guns , MBRLs, anti drone systems, small drones, weopon locating Rader, mounted gun system etc etc🎉🎉🎉

[@cyclonemc7915]

music to my ears

[@johnbower3002]

India is allied with Russia so nothing has changed

[@eren3390]

indian weapons have a bad reputation tho😅

[@ProudTurkroach]

​@@eren3390 +300 credit score

[@Savagepublic]

They should also import Indian War Cry "Dhun Tana Dhun Tana" It'll surely help against Azerbaijan 😂

[@AramBasmadjian-wz1wj]

The two "experts" you interviewed were of turkish and azerbaijani origin 0:18 - Hüseyin Bagci (turkish) 1:38 - Farid Shafiyev (azerbaijani) Such a fucking joke. Absolutely no bias.

[@Elshadcan]

And Eric Hacopian is Armenian. So what? One from each country.

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

Such filthy rude nation using bad words such fcknjoke, your existence is a big joke

[@eren3390]

western media never talks with turks. now they did, why is it bad?

[@AramBasmadjian-wz1wj]

@@eren3390 find a stronger argument and come back

[@eren3390]

@@AramBasmadjian-wz1wj that was a valid argument lmao🤣

[@ArmenianBishop]

No, it's not like 2 children, it's like Azerbaijan, the bully, beating up on the schoolyard child, and no one intervening to sanction them.

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

armeniams hearts fullofhatred

[@ArmenianBishop]

​@@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl Yeah Sure ... and Santa Claus is coming to town tomorrow too.

[@eren3390]

@@ArmenianBishopnah we are muslims we don’t believe in that lol

[@ArmenianBishop]

@@eren3390 You already know that I was being sarcastic. So, don't pretend to take it literally.

[@eren3390]

@@ArmenianBishop we muslim dear sir!!!

[@bobcat1101]

Artsakh - Armenia

[@cyclonemc7915]

well said

[@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056]

Nope ! Nothing inside internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan belongs to Armenia! Nothing !

[@lordlex6315]

@@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056When we reclaim our ancient Armenian Artsakh🇦🇲 again from you azerb!ces - we will make sure you azerb!ces will recognise it's new borders first😎😎😎

[@lordlex6315]

@@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056Artsakh🇦🇲 will be Armenian again in a few years - you just wait and see

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

Let the artsak be their, we don't care! We have no such place called arsak within our boundaries!

[@t0t0yL11T]

Armenia has the right to defend itself and their Nagorno-kharabak territory.

[@masoudmaleki1139]

😂😂😂😂

[@mkryann1587]

1:44 well did azerbaijan do this, azerbaijan rearmed and came back as revanchist, azerbaijan proved to ve a revanchist and its proven and its out there

[@Ukit50]

They came back to liberate their land from terrorist Armenian occupier. Under UN 4 resolution Qarabagh belong to Azerbaijan

[@JN-wr9he]

Would you rather they sat quietly for another 30 years while you plundered their lands and kept their population out of own homes?

[@mkryann1587]

@@JN-wr9he first of all thats not their lands, and it never was, even Soviet times Nagorno Kharabakh had its own Autonomy with its own elected Armenian Leaders, same way Naxichevan is Armenian, even the name is Armenian and Naxichevan is not even connected to Azerbaijan, secondly they attacked first the the Armenians Of Nagorno Kharabagh and in Cities of Baku Sumgait they killed and tortured Armenians In Public Squares for days, seeing all this Armenians after Being Attacked Created Buffer Zones, which were always on the negotiating table to return same Negotiations that azerbaijan halted for 30 years because they and you are revanchist, you are revanchist because you blockade Armenians for 9 months with no food and medicine after that attacked and ethnically cleansed and forced them out of Nagorno Kharabagh, the lands which never ever belonged to azerbaijan, ever. Now like you memtione another 30 years is on the run and well know whats going to happen now that azerbaijan is without russian and turkish israeli friends

[@akhagop4123]

@@mkryann1587 erdogan claimed the credit for the victory. lukashinko admitted ( Belarus and russia) were on azeris side . Not mentioning israel , pakistan and Syrian mercenaries role in the war.

[@mkryann1587]

@@akhagop4123 after all these international power’s admitions of crime, wonder if azerbaijan had anything to do with the 2020 war😂😂 or were they spoon fed, while Armenian s were LONELY AND ALONE IN 2020 war. Our biggest mistake is not that we lost to this team lf bandits but one that we counted on others and special this imperialist russians, we are stronger than anyone when we count on us and we have lost multiple times in history when we trusted Russians, 3 million Armenia Sent 600,000 soldiers to fight for Stalin in WW2, Half of them Died the other half crippled. Armenian had the highest percentage of the soldiers and losses per capita in ww2, we gave the Russians Marshals and Generals, Nagorno Kharabagh and One Vilage allone in there gave 1 Marshal and couple of Generals for these bastards Russians to come and “Peace Keep” Out and Cleanse Armenians From their land to please azerbaijan

[@Shanto923]

Artsakh will be liberated again.

[@cyclonemc7915]

let them count their last oil barrels

[@MsTehmez]

İravan is Azerbaijan.soon you will see our flag rise center of our ancient lands.

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

we have oil and armenians have kim kardashian she makes money from Afro-American guys and sends to armenia

[@cyclonemc7915]

@@MsTehmez coca cola is more "ancient" than your country also I'd like to see you try 🤣

[@MsTehmez]

@@cyclonemc7915 don't hesitate for sure.we get our lands back.you will see our flag in irevan just wait.

[@hovhadovah]

"After last year's successful recapturing of the disputed..." Incredible how you managed to spread misinformation within the first 10 seconds of the video. Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) was never Azerbaijan's, and therefore it couldn't have been "recaptured."

[@eren3390]

it is recognized as their land. the whole world accepts it as azerbaijani territory. even armenia itself by the way (as well as the united nations).

[@amazingamazigh6847]

There is a difference between Naforno Karabach and Artshak. Naforno Karabach must be ruled by Aremenians!! It was always theirs. The oterh provinces were not.

[@Ukit50]

@@amazingamazigh6847 Base on Paris peace treaty in 1918, the whole region belong to Azerbaijan.

[@Ukit50]

TOTAL BS from Armenian propaganda Stalin never ever transfer Qarabagh to Azerbaijan but still remain part of SSR Azerbaijan. Thus, the Armenian leadership has traditionally tried to resolve the issue of borders with Azerbaijan by directly addressing Moscow, without taking into account the opinion of Baku, confident that the latter will accept any decision sanctioned by the Kremlin. However, on Stalin's instructions, Arutunov's letter was forwarded to Baku, to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR M.J. Bagirov. Famous Azerbaijani historians were mobilized on Bagirov's instructions to draft a response to the Armenian side. Finally, on December 10, 1945, Bagirov's response followed in Moscow. Bagirov's letter was accompanied by a detailed historical background on the history of Karabakh, beginning with the formation of the Karabakh Khanate and ending with the formation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region in 1923. At the end of his letter, M.J. Bagirov made a counter-proposal in which he expressed his agreement to transfer the NKAO, excluding the Shusha region populated by Azerbaijanis, to the Armenian SSR in exchange for the transfer of the Azizbekov, Vedin and Karabaglar regions of the Armenian SSR, populated by Azerbaijanis, numbering approximately 100 thousand people, to the Azerbaijan SSR.

[@taimermega6447]

As a American i feel like Azerbaijan has every right to take back it's land!!

[@nothingness4884]

I think the Saddam of the Caucasus (Aliyev) will try another war again in the short to mid term, this time his aim will be to capture the Southern half of Armenia, at the very minimum, to create his "corridor" dream.

[@lordlex6315]

Armenia will have the military upper hand sooner or later - we will never let central-asian azerb!ces settle on our ancient Armenian Artsakh permanently🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

What armenia can do against 11 millions populated country? Stop nonesense if armenia could have done something they already were done, armenians can not go beyond talking absurd

[@whitewalker234]

@@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl Hey Aslan. No disrespect, however Armenians did that ”nonsense” against said 11 mil country in 1990s, fighting 1:5, and took a big chunk of its territory as a buffer zone to protect Artsakh from genocide. If they were not betrayed by russia, or azerbaijan didn’t have the support from turkey and thousands of mercenaries from all-over the muslim world, they would win this war al well. Did you know that azerbaijan had zero gains in territory in the first 2 weeks of the 2020 war they started with a massive invasion? And massive losses in both personnel and military equipment? Until a turk general took over their military forces and put his NATO training to a good use.

[@eren3390]

@@whitewalker234azeris didn’t had weapons in 90s so that was unfair. this 2020 war was more fair.

[@whitewalker234]

@@eren3390 you mean they didn’t have as much weapons as now!? As in - they only had 5 to 1 arms and personnel against Armenians, who were fighting with outdated WW2 era weapons and hunting rifles?

[@quotesconnect1]

Cmon Armenia ❤️🇮🇳

[@callofdutyww2983]

P**jeet

[@Savagepublic]

Both countries have the right to defend themselves, but Karabakh is officially and internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan "FULL STOP" being a Pakistani I'll always support Azerbaijan, but if they further escalate an attack or occupy Armenian land, we'll not support Azerbaijan whatsoever.

[@whitewalker234]

With due respect to your convictions, being a Pakistani - please ask yourself. Why is Pakistan the only country that hasn’t yet recognized the independent state of Armenian Republic? When will you un-support azerbaijani attacks on current and historical armenian lands, if your government doesn’t even recognize Armenia’s existence? Are you going to use the fake azeri maps for their territorial claims, as they do? If you let them, they’ll claim to be the oldest nation in the world, and one day also claim that pakistan is their ancestral homeland, when in fact, that nation and their country didn’t exist before 1918

[@whitewalker234]

when your neighbor is a genocidal nation with a corrupt government and a dictator head of state, Armenia has no choice but to arm herself to protect its lands and population from a country that didn’t even exist before 1900s. Fact: azerbaijan slayed its peaceful Armenian population in 1988 for no other reason than because they were Armenians (Sumgait, baku, to name a few). Whoever survived, fled to armenia and russia. after which the Armenians took up arms and protected themselves against bloodthirsty azeri barbarians, and created a buffer zone within azerbaijan surrounding one of the oldest Armenian cradles of unrecognized Artsakh republic. The latter was an Armenian state within azerbaijan with pure Armenian population, that stalin just handed to the turks along with naxijevan. during the early soviet years. Armenians are one of the oldest nations in the world with rich history at every glance in the region, including half of the nowadays turkey territory, that they got after the 1915 genocide against Armenians. Azeri nation didn’t even exist until after the soviet union was formed in 1920s, their ancestors were literally still bouncing around the treetops before it happened. “azerbaijan RECLAIMING ITS LANDS” is not just wrong, but also kind of a silent approval for their genocidal actions by whoever came up with this story.

[@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056]

Where are the 350 thousand ethnic Azerbaijani residents of the Republic of Armenia now ?? Why is Armenia 99.9 % ethnic Armenia and no other ethnicity is allowed to live there in any significant number ?????

[@akhagop4123]

​@@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056 Where are the +500k Armenians in so called azerbaijan including nakhicevan and karabakh and their kachkars ( cross stones) Where are the 2.6 million Armenians in Western Armenia ?

[@akhagop4123]

​@@tabriz.azerbaijan-turk6056 Read about the deportation of Armenians from shahumyan region ( Operation ring 1991) Read about the massacres of Armenians in Sumgaiet Feb 1988 In Genje Nov 1989 In Baku Jan 1990 Don't play victim after you start the war

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

armenians are great in one business making fake that is doung FAKE PROPOGANDA, when Azerbaijan did genocide over armenians?

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

You are trying to humilitae Azerbaijan even typing country name in lower case, you are little pooor nation with full of haaatred, you will stay like that forever

[@SK-lt1so]

Great...

[@cyclonemc7915]

Free Artsakh respect to the USA France and India

[@aghadadashbalagadashov9446]

Ahahaha what the gel India can change ? Their society suffer from poverty you son of the bitch and other people will kot support you only in words , but for wining sole thing u need actions

[@alihanaydogdu6158]

🌍🫸🏻 🇦🇲🤮

[@HaHa-zu1zu]

ARTSAKH IS ARMENIA 🇦🇲

[@aghadadashbalagadashov9446]

And your mom is mine . Anyways There is no place in world called artsakh. We will not let you guys make second Armenian government in Azerbaijani lands

[@lordlex6315]

@@aghadadashbalagadashov9446Coca-cola is older than azerb!cjan and one day soon there will only be coca-cola and no azerb!cjan

[@eklezia2829]

ARMENIA IS AZERBAIJAN 🇦🇿

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

This coca cola story is really annoying, all the pooor armenians saying this cola coca story

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

Kotex lady pad is older than armenia

[@lordlex6315]

Armenian Artsakh🇦🇲 is temporarily occupied by central-asian azerb!c cattle - but like all things temporary it will not always remain that way🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲😎😎😎

[@turkish3112]

Armenia is 🇹🇷🇦🇿 😂 no such thing as artsakh fake creation

[@cheesypup2623]

Is it safe to study in YSMU ARMENIA FOR MY MEDICAL POST GRADUATE DEGREE ? I AM A CHRISTIAN MYSELF

[@ulvigarayev]

"Impartial" Western media 😂 Pro-Azerbaijani comments are automatically deleted

[@AslanNadiroglu-ft2sl]

US is arming them as well whyvyou not talk about it, we saw US C17 aircrafts brought arms and ammunitions but it could be intelligence equipments to track iranian movements as well

[@amilaamila1942]

Are qenacide araxaescanes😭

[@veyselturan6916]

Azerbaijan only liberated its Internationally recognized territories 🤷‍♂️

[@Qwertyasdf923]

That have never been part of independent Azerbaijan 😂 but were placed into Azerbaijan during Soviet times lol

[@Qwertyasdf923]

The same with Nakhijevan. It was part of Armenian SSR. Then it was transferred to Azerbaijani SSR. And now it’s part of “internationally recognised borders” of Azerbaijan lol 😂

[@veyselturan6916]

@@Qwertyasdf923 No, it was Zangezur, that was gifted to Armenia SSR. Anyway you can Lol as much as you want. You couldn't convince anybody with your lies and fairytales for 30 years. Its even more pointless now 😏 🤷‍♂️

[@Qwertyasdf923]

@@veyselturan6916these are not lies or fairytales. These are facts. All Armenian lands will be free :)

[@Qwertyasdf923]

@@veyselturan6916you should consider going back to your homeland: Altaic and Mongolian steppes

[@denaco7534]

Azerbaijan is the most corny country ever existed on planet earth. There logic towards history is out of this world…

[@alihanaydogdu6158]

Karabağ Azerbaycan

[@aghadadashbalagadashov9446]

Karabag is Azerbaijan and will remain Azerbaijan forever . Long live president Aliyev long live Azerbaijani army .

[@whitewalker234]

Արցախ was never azerbaijan. it was one of the oldest armenian cradles and one of the 12 states of historical Armenia, while your ancestors were literally bouncing around the treetops. your country and your nation didn’t exist before 1920, you genocidal turks

[@lordlex6315]

Artsakhs will always will be Armenian🇦🇲 - we will never allow central-asian azerb!ces to graze on our ancient lands permanently. In the next war we will reclaim our Artsakh🇦🇲 just like we did in 19193😎 Unfortunately for you - neither azerb!cjan more ali-baba-yes will live that long.

[@whitewalker234]

@@lordlex6315 Looks like you misunderstood my comment. Նորից կարդա 🤗

[@EsfandiarNokhodaki]

Aliyev is dictator not president

[@Qwertyasdf923]

Azerbaijan never even existed before 1918 But Armenia did exist long before

[@Pykin-s9c]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Pykin-s9c]

Eslib ne pytler i perdogan xren bi vi videli Arcax .HAY ваны ..

[@HHH-zz3ip]

Looking at comments, the Armenians will not learn or respect borders 😅😅😅

[@Qwertyasdf923]

“Respect borders” 🤡 yeah, especially when these borders were created in favour of Azerbaijan during Soviet times. Artsakh was assigned to Azerbaijan. However, the day before it was decided to make it part of Armenia. How can such a decision be treated seriously?

[@Qwertyasdf923]

Secondly, Nakhichevan was part of Armenian SSR. Then, the Soviet authorities transferred it to Azerbaijan. And now it’s part of “internationally recognised borders” of Azerbaijan. Lol. What is even Azerbaijan? Artificial state

[@lordlex6315]

azerb!cjam couldn't fight it's way out of a paper bag with turkish, israeli, russian military help - oh and let's not forget the thousands of arab syrian mercenaries help. They are a weak nation that can not fight it's own wars

[@whitewalker234]

@@lordlex6315 Absolutely agree. In the first 2 weeks of the 44 days war in 2020 they had zero gains in territory, and massive losses. Until a turk general took over their military forces and put his NATO training to a good use. ALONG with turkish special forces units. Otherwise Armenian troops would probably be stationed in baku by now

[@eren3390]

always the same lies just bcs ya‘ll lost… this was azerbaijan vs armenia and russia. azerbaijan won.

[@whitewalker234]

@@eren3390 100% wrong. it was azerbaijan + turkey + russia against armenians. And other countries like belorus, ukraine, pakistan, syria, israel were actively supporting azerbaijan before and during the war. Did you know that a turkish general took up the command of the azeri forces and put his NATO training to a good use? Also, there were special forces from turkey, who spoke fluent armenian and managed to get behind armenian forces at the end of the war. Not counting the tens of thousands of terrorist mercenaries that came to your aid from pakistan and syria. aliyev is feeding you with lies and nothing more, because otherwise the azeri nation would get fed up with his corruption and anti democratic policies

[@eren3390]

@@whitewalker234 so many lies xD

[@akhagop4123]

@@eren3390 erdogan said last week that they were fighting on your side. lukashinko ( mehribans lover) said couple months ago that they were on your side, russia was on your side. Evidence: 10 months of blockade on karabakh. Yet no russian response. And finally handing karabakh . azerbaijan and russia signed alliance treaty. Two days before russian invasion of Ukraine. putins visit to ally Baku amid Ukrainian success in Kursk. russia rejects French observers on Armenian border because France is a NATO member. Yet, it allows turkish monitors in aghdam ! Not mentioning Israel, Syrian mercenaries and Pakistan whom flag was raised in azerbaijan after the war. Next time you will loose even Baku. Just enjoy your day for now.

[@zemichov]

азербайджан🤘