Yep. This was painful to listen to

Count your blessings you could always be worse think of dial up back in the day

A de-esser would have been massively appreciated though 😂

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@@carlk.3264 plus a room with good acoustics

I personnaly don't rejoyce in history moving again, in the direction of horrible Turks always killing other people between Turkey and Central Asia in horrendous genocides. A 100 years after another appaling genocide of Armenians that made Turkey so much bigger at their expense, the world is again witnessing this horror. I wish everyone that is not on the side of Armenians there, to one day experience this Turkish barbarism. And I wish Ican be there to tell them : "What do you think of Armenians then ?"

@@qrsx66he admires that Mr.. Zeihan says a lot with a little. I admire that too (isn’t that definition of poetry-saying a lot with fEw words?). He’s not condoning past or future atrocities. Years ago I offended Monsignor Jack on a cruise when I said I admired Cuba’s Castro for his conviction. He would die with his troops if it came to that. All he could go on about was the suffering of the Cuban people & his bankrupt ideology. I agree on both points but I still admired Castro’s conviction even tho he was wrong. All you have in this world are your beliefs, right or wrong.

​@@qrsx66 Armenians bited their 800 year old masters hand.

@@qrsx66 armenians are masters of gaslighting, how else would they have whitewashed their crimes and convinced the world that they are the victim. now they have to sleep in the bed they have made for themselves. and your hatefulness will only eat you from inside, so maybe try to think and take a more reslistic and honest attitude. self-reflection and self-awareness are key to growth.

May I ask, what country are you from?@@qrsx66

Unfortunately most of it was incorrect or half truths

If you are going to make that statement, you need to back it up with facts. Otherwise you are just a negative bot used by the system @@redsar1972

Same! That’s because they don’t give the backstory, so your understanding of the news is bifurcated. I realized a few years ago that geography is the underpinnings of everything and that we need to understand how nations use land first to understand both the conflicts and potential peace.

@@godschild6694 I’d be fine if he backed it up with educated opinion as to where Pete fell short. Pete made a 13 minute summary of the history of the area. There’s bound to be a lot of stuff left out. Also, Pete isn’t an expert on the area (he can’t be an expert on everything-he’s a very good generalist with broad knowledge), so he might be missing important detail or nuance. So I don’t expect Pete to be perfect. But like you, if someone who is an expert wants to criticize the presentation, I’d like some details about where Pete gets it wrong. This region of the world has a complicated political history that puts the Balkans/former Yugoslavia to shame. Like Tito did in Yugoslavia, the Soviets kept a lid on centuries of ethnic and religious strife. Before the Soviets, Armenia and Azerbaijan were under the thumb of the Ottoman Empire (the Turks). Armenia suffered greatly under the Turks (including the 20th Century’s first genocide), and I don’t think they ever recovered. The Soviets offered Armenians protection and some limited opportunities (including opportunities in the lucrative industry of state corruption under communism). The smartest, most entrepreneurial, most ambitious, and most educated Armenians have been fleeing the mother country for more than a century, forced out by the Turks first, and later escaping communist oppression. If I look at the successes and prosperity the Armenians of the diaspora have achieved in their adoptive countries, I wonder what could have been achieved in Armenia if they hadn’t been forced to leave. I suspect that the bot you responded to isn’t really a bot. It’s someone who is pro-Armenian, who grew up hearing the history from the Armenian perspective, and who isn’t ready to hear anything that challenges his world view. He really needs to hear different perspectives if he is to form a strategy for Armenia based on reality, but I don’t think he will because the Armenians are a proud people. But pride goeth before a fall.

​​@@MarcosElMalo2if you know anything about the Ottoman Empire, which I doubt, you'd know that the majority of diplomats, high ranking military and government officials, as well resident artists, architects, urban planners, etc. were Armenian, Greek and Jewish. Ottoman did not even really mean Turk back then. Greeks and Armenians represented the Ottomans at at 1896 Olympics.

I live in Georgia myself. Just not your Georgia. I live in the biscuits and gravy Georgia.😁

I was in Georgia in 2008. Wonderful country and wonderful people.

​@@jwiegraffe6290Chacha is better than Grappa!

Georgia and Georgia speak to each other through the power of the internet. I'm a boomer who just loves this internet age! 🎉

@@nole8923 Let me guess, you live on Peachtree.

Map men, map men, map map map men, men. 😁

I learned geography looking over Walter Cronkite's shoulder.(Yes, I'm old.) Showing more maps in media would make all of us better informed.

He almost has to, given how complicated the situation is.

Yea but he did a half asses job explaining the whole conflict. The most bias I have ever heard

@@henzoko5946 If you come here expecting unbiassed news I'm afraid you're lost.

This is a continuation of the Turkish MusIim gen.ocide against the Armenian Christians. In the early 19th century, Turkish MusIims murdered 3 million Armenian Christians. And then the Turkish MusIims turned on the Greek Christians in Smyrna, and murdered and exiled a million Greeks. Read “Paradise Lost” by Giles Milton. Don’t forget or ignore the religious aspect of this war. R

Gross. None of this matters until we’re looking down a barrel. Who cares. Human beings have been killing each other since we crawled out of the primordial ooze.

I don’t listen to any Mai stream geopolitics. Just Peter for years. He’s right more often that not. Not perfect. But very accurate. Leaves emotions at the door and just focuses on facts numbers and logistics. Brilliant.

Peter and Vlad Vexler combined give a serious overview of this entire clusterfuck.

@@Nebris Indeed. I also appreciate Lord Vexler’s big brain on this topic very much.

To sum up, in about a decade or so, expect a repeat of Rwanda in currently Armenian teritories and Nagorno Karabakh and a couple of years later another war with Georgia... Assuming Ukrainian war will be over by then and Georgia doesn't simply join.

It would be beneficial for Mr. Zeihan to provide an update on the situation regarding the Chinese balloon, which was not actually a spy balloon. It’s important to remember that Mr. Zeihan, like many Americans, may not be able to read foreign languages where a lot of the factual information is often found. Therefore, it’s not fair to hold him responsible for spreading misinformation

The analysis is on point as always. Here's a suggestion for Peter, please analyze the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina right now. There's a similar process going on under the sponsorship of Russia, where a Serb secessionist and glorifier of war crimes, Milorad Dodik, is trying to destabilize the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina from within. He's also a favorite of Orban (Hungary) and Vucic (Serbia). He is a regular in Moscow and he goes there for updates almost on a quarterly basis. For context, Bosnia is trying to join NATO, and has been for over 20 years now (basically since the end of defensive war in the 1990s) but is actively being sabotaged by Russian meddling through the Serb minority in Bosnia. There are even fears of renewed conflict, if Russia needs a decoy in the Balkans to create a new frontline or at least a messy situation in the Balkans so NATO is bogged down on 2 fronts.

​@@looseycanonIn addition to Ukraine and Moldova; Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia - all of these have been trying to strengthen ties with NATO and at times eye'ing full membership, some wishy washy times aside, pretty much since the Sovjet Crumble. All of them have been kept at various multipliers of arms length by Russian puppetry maintaining some sort of territorial dispute (NATO does not "import conflicts"; NATO is a mutual _defense_ alliance, and doing that would in effect be a de facto pursuit of war). However - if Russia can't hold up their puppetry and military intervension in the region, these countries manage to end those territorial disputes with minimal bloodshed, and they're mostly able to establish reasonable diplomatic and political relations including a formal peace... Then I wouldn't be surprised if NATO and in part the EU decides to make a push to pull them all into the fold somehow. If not them, Iran probably will, and I imagine Turkey wouldn't be all too keen on that. Turkey would probably rather be at the forefront of that NATO push if the region manages to settle down mostly on their own (with solid external incentives). Might not be ordinary NATO memberships though; NATO with Turkey (and possibly Ukraine at some later stage) could possibly become organizational bridges between NATO "proper" and a new sister branch in this eastern/ eurasia region.

Azerbaijanis are the Harkonnens! There, no longer unbiased.

Yes , your name is congruent with your nationality )))

He's got that Xbox 360 mic going on

This is a continuation of the Turkish MusIim gen.ocide against the Armenian Christians. In the early 19th century, Turkish MusIims murdered 3 million Armenian Christians. And then the Turkish MusIims turned on the Greek Christians in Smyrna, and murdered and exiled a million Greeks. Read “Paradise Lost” by Giles Milton. Don’t forget or ignore the religious aspect of this war. R

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/22/armenian-pm-hopes-ethnic-armenians-can-remain-in-nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66877083 edition.cnn.com/2023/09/20/asia/nagorno-karabakh-russia-ceasefire-intl/index.html I always hate this kind of praise where folks claim there's no mainstream coverage of issues when all major news outlets are absolutely covering these stories. Peter is able to forecast his expectations here because he's not liable for speculation, whereas if our news agencies did that, they'd be decried for non factual speculation or bias. Peter has the freedom to explore potential scenarios in a way the MSM cannot and I feel like it's an unfair stick to attack mainstream reporting with.

You should probably do some reading on your own if you think the news will teach you anything... LOL

@@jorgeenchilada Unfortunately, Peter isn't immune to influence by the machine. He's way better, and clearer thinking than most, but I'm pretty sure he still thinks there are actual practicing journalists at WP and NYT.

@@CharveL88 I'm not sure he thinks there are "actual practicing journalists" there. There are. The dude is a genius at geopolitics. Like most other highly intelligent people, he realizes that NYT and even CNN has had terrific on the ground war reporting. Not sure if the guy cares about opinion posts and news, but you realize there's a difference between those two... right?

lol spoken like lenin who tried to invade poland once took power in russia.

Sorry to take you to 70 likes.

@@MasterMalrubiusnice

That’s part of the Peter Zeihan experience.

As a fello coloradian, most Americans, especially "experts" are dumb when it comw to the world politics and history. Americans are the least educated about the world and a failed American foreign policy is the perfect example of it

He was an Iowan first! We also want to claim him.

@@RossmannSJ too late!

Really? Not industrial build up Economic development Why is Latin America poor?

@@condotiero860 What has that to do with anything? I said the situation was complex, not why it is or who or what might be at fault.

@@condotiero860 Do those things matter in this conflict?

Poor Armenia and Armenians. History has been very tough on them: a genocide, loss of territory, diaspora, corruption and now, this. The country is in a check mate situation ( for now). To be seen…

I tried to simplify the situation for myself during a visit. The best I could come up with was, small land locked countries can not afford to have enemies on two borders - unless someone else is going to defend them. Absent that external defense, I fear Armenia will cease to exist.

these clans you mentioned are just people growing wheat and selling it for few arms. Not much power

That's really interesting.

@@newwondererno they are quite influential in Armenian politics. They have been the dominant coalition for a long time and still carry very much sway.

I think it's too late for the pebbles to vote.

​@@argentaegisThanks, Kosh.

Another Zeihan prediction come true. Geography and Demographics are a powerful thing. But not all knowing, so be careful.

What's impressive is when one of Peter's Predictions does NOT come true.

Nothing impressive in predicting that a) Russia would NOT intervene militarily within Azerbaijan, b) especially when the Armenian leadership itself is walking back from providing security to Karabakh Armenians, c) Azerbaijan having warned & expressed dismay at "local elections", at continued challenging of Azeri sovereignty, would make a move to secure a victory while Pashinyan is in power and Armenians are still weak.

that was like predicting after 9-11, the oil men running America were going to war in the middle east and ignore other parts of the world, giving China a vacuum to fill in the Pac Rim.

Well, Ok, except nobody else actually made the prediction, at least publicly. @@RandomYTStuff

I mean they could just invite Peter Zeihan and let him talk.

I don't think he'd be given a 10 minute slot on primetime news!@@devalapar7878

@@Flyingjaffacake True! They would probably ask some stupid question and then move on.

Mainstream news media is pretty much useless in that regard. Like a Sirene warning you of a fire, it doesn't explain to you what fire is, how it happened, and why it's bad. It just screams at you. That's mainstream news. It doesn't lead to any understanding. Also, it's 100% influenced by private investors trying to push a political agenda to further their personal interests, or ideologues that try to cause political shift according to their own dogmatic convictions. Even "free" and "independent" news organizations are entirely corrupt. The official German news, supposedly specifically designed to be partisan and separated from state AND private investors, it's STILL completely corrupt, biased and one sided. (because the authoritive boards of the organization is carefully selected to be extremely homogeneous and lobsided. Also their global news information comes from larger news organizations that are themselves not objective or unbiased at all) If you want any understanding of anything, you better start reading some books, and integrating yourself in a community that has formed around that topic, and take part in their discussions, because 5 minutes of coverage of BBC or CNN won't give you ANY meaningful understanding of what's going on. Your opinion is essentially worthless.

After the horrendous genocide history common to both the Armenian and Jews, they dare to be such an active party in a new Armenian genocide. How can I support Israel now when they claim their right to exist, to annex new territories...

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Oh, yes

There are more Azeris in Iran than Azerbaijan. Even the current Ayatollah is half ethnic Azeri. Iran fears northern Iran territories breaking off.

You have been misinformed, the help we got from Iran during the war was less than 1% of the help the Azerbaijanis got from Israel Ukraine and Turkey, but don’t worry Karma is coming. You see what’s happening in Ukraine? That’s God (the Christian God, the real God, father of Christ) allowing it to happen for selling white phosphorus bombs to terrorist Azerbaijan 🇦🇿. That’s why Mohammed raped and murdered to force people into Islam, his followers DK the same thing today. No one says nothing because of money and oil

ya, the flight of Armenia is good indeed. UN resolutions after UN resolutions calling for Armenia to leave Azerbaijan ignored.

Why,they started the war invaded Azerbaijan kick 1 million people out hold the land for 30years and refuses to negotiate,they cause this.

@@edwardsnowden8821 I'm not talking about the last 30 years. Go back 1000 years. They had a tough fate and face extinction.

@@ibrahimsuleiman8473 Allah likes little boys.

@@turul9392 go back 1000 years, Russia also had tough times doesn't mean they should invade Ukraine because the Ukraine was part of Russia hundreds of years ago. same goes for Armenia.

From the best side?

Only some new buildings and shopping malls are giving off the Dubai vibes. The city has more historical aspects and definitely more to offer than some instagram pictures. Unfortunately I fell ill the third day and therefore couldn't see more of it, but definitely worth revisiting.

@@roenin I would not want our country to be compared with others, but thank you very much, that you appreciate our country 👍🏻 We are always glad to see tourists in our country,

It seems very much biased, even at a first glance. This analysis is very opinionated, and many things are presented as facts, when really they are discussion points.

Or a fast food drive-thru window.

Claiming Armenia is corrupt, and saying no word of Azerbaijan dictatorship,which is the one of the corruptest country in the world

That revolution has also directly led to two invasions by their neighbour. Now they are about to get ethnically cleansed from lands they’ve settled for hundreds of years. It’s a disaster.

The Armenians have no choice but to keep fighting. They know very well that the ultimate goal of Azerbaijan and Turkey is the complete annihilation of not only the Armenian state, but also Armenian culture and civilization.

" it's about saving the Armenians in Karabakh who are being starved, raped, tortured and killed on a regular basis". There are no Azerbaijanis there to do these alleged things because they were completely killed off and ethnically cleansed. So that's a made-up claim. The most recent UN report on the region completely debunks any wrongdoing in the region by Azerbaijan, as Azerbaijan has minimal presence there.

Iran (ethnic Persians and their Uncle-Toms from Azerbaijan province) have done everything possible to support Armenia against Azerbaijan Republic.This has included military, financial and political aid. They have conducted military operations at the Azerbaijan border to intimidate the Republic of Azerbaijan. They have supplied Armenia with Russian weapons. Watch the videos of military convoys going from Iran to Armenia during the 2nd Karabakh war (2021). The Azerbaijani people south of the Araz. river can’t wait to pay back Persians for their animosity towards the Turks. 🇦🇿❤️🇹🇷

I don't think Armenia will disappear. If Azerbaijan went so far, it would lose all international support. They aren't willing to give up their positive relations with EVERONYE for Armenia. And yes, it was a stupid decision to take Nagorno-Karabach. It was always an unstable solution. Two groups who hate eachother can't have land in eachother's country. If Nagorno-Karabach had been independent and worked with Azerbaijan on security, the chances for peace would have been higher. Hatred is a strong motivator and blinds people.

The thing is they just did what you said, which was the real issue. The thing is called 'Republic of Artsakh', but is recognized by nobody, including Armenia itself. So, nope, it is not enough to declare independence. You also need to make others recognize it.

@@roenin Nah, Armenia Annexed the region (and a bit more). Then they made an agreement (sorry, I suck with dates) to allow free passage for Turkey and Azerbaijan (backed by the Russians), but never made good on their promises. Granted, they hate the Ottomans on both side, but they truly played badly the cards they had.

@@devalapar7878 Azerbaijan don't need to roll tanks all over Armenia and do some HOI4 annexation of the territory. Armenia is landlocked, former "ally" of Russia, surrounded by neighbors who hates their guts (Azerbaijan on one side, Turkey on the other). Georgia is up on another border, but Georgia is not about to trust a former Russian ally, not without some hard diplomatic work. The only option would be to get closer to Iran, which basically put EVERYBODY hates, and would put them against Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US. Now, even if Azerbaijan don't conquer Armenia (which yeah, it wouldn't be accepted at all by the rest of the world), they can let the country in an impoverished state and politically unstable that could throw it into anarchy and chaos. Armenia is indeed in a serious risk as a functional state

@@user-vk3gv2nf1g I think what is missing from your analysis is that Armenia is not a functional state, never was since its independence. It was always Russia's vassal state - Russian army guards its borders, Russian companies own its strategic infrastructure, Russia donates arm and subsidises its energy needs, the list goes on. No natural resources to speak of, no foundation for economic independence, no vision developed ?over the past thirty years. Name another 'functional' state that is in the same position. That was why Karabakh was such a pivotal issue for them, that was what had kept them together and gave an illusion of a victorious nation. And their diaspora only fuelled it and took advantage of it, because that what gave them clout and relevance both in Armenia and abroad. Armenians really need to learn to live within their means (in a broad sense), but they still have delusions of being a 'great armenia'. As long as they do, they will not be able to turn the corner.

Everything's so effing critical. I don't agree. Dust-up at the end of the Earth.

Some more historical context would also be good. The genocide on Armenian from the Otoman empire the Turks during WW1 is important. The scary thing is that Turkey still is proud of it and you risk prison sentence if you say it was anything wrong with doing it. So a new genocide is definitely possible and we have to look at what Turkey is doing. This time probably more supply and train Azerbadjan to kill of the rest of the Armenians than that they officially is going in.

​@@lubricustheslippery5028lmao Armenian propaganda at its finest. There never was and never will be a genocide against Armenians. What happened was Armenians thanks to help from Russian and French tried to carve out their Great Armenia out of the Turkish heartland and they were beaten at it. So, nothing like the fate of the European Jews, more like the fate of the Southern Confederate states. You f around you find out. But I understand fully, why the victim card is so appealing to their screechy diaspora today. They see another one succeed at pulling the money out of American taxpayers pockets, they think why not us as well. Really makes you question the economy behind it.

In fact nor Azerbaijan nor Turkey gives a damn or even think about armenians. Armenian people are living with delusion of great armenia and keep feeding hatred in them for Turks. We just wanted to live in peace. It was armenian people who started killing Turks in Ottoman in early 1900 and In first Karabakh war. There isnt any evidance of genocide of armenians and history shows that its just fake tale. But there are evidences of genocides did by armenians in Erzurum or Khojaly. You can search and see it by yourself? its all documented. Armenian people and Armenia as a state are just tool in the hands of Russia, Iran, France to keep chaos live in Caucasus. @@lubricustheslippery5028

@@lubricustheslippery5028 Go back to playing video games, you know nothing of history of the so called armenian genocide, which was actually armenians backed by russia murdering Turkish citizens (mostly kurds in eastern anatolia) to ethnically cleanse the area to take it over which backfired on the armenians who got ethnically cleansed to tune of around 600-700k. Armenians who inflate the numbers to 1.5 million with avid backing of the western media so the west can generate an excuse to interfere with the region and extract resources on the cheap. Got it smart boy! In 1992 armenians, again, backed by the russians atttacked and captured karabag region of azerbaycan, with brutal ethnic cleansing, which just got taken back by azerbaycan who got their lands back without doing ethnic cleansing, although the armenians sure deserve it for all the evil they have done. Azerbaycan needs to deport all the armeninans living on their land to stop the their back stabberry. Keep listening to that lying western media that has turned you into a deluded moron!

Yeah and let you people be ethnic cleansed from their millenia old homes because some drunk commie draw the borders

Smart strategist would have made a deal before 2020 war.

Hes a western puppet , he dont care about his people ,the trick for him is to give those teritories but make it look like the russians fault...

Every time he wants to cut a deal and move forward, their people protest. And the protests work there.

he's always wrong

He is misonfirming his followers , his facts are not correct.

back that statement up or be silent @@andreqasparian1008

@@godschild6694 He says Armenians claim Nagorno Karabakh being birthplace Armenian nation, I'm Armenian I've never heard of it. It's Ararat valley he is confusing with. He says Armenia is corrupt but doesn't tell how Azerbaijani dictatorship is corrupt.Armenians being undereducated is his most ridicolous claim.Yet he is more restrained in this video. His other videos are full of lies against Armenians

Had the Armenian government state committed to Russia, we would still have a country run by gangsters extorting poor innocent people and driving them to flee the country while their assets are gobbled up by said gangsters. We would still have a massive immigration crisis, Armenia would still be poor and isolated with Russia as its only trade partner and ally and we would probably be bringing in Russians and Cossacks to make up for the ever shrinking Armenian demographic. I don't regret us distancing from Russia.

Also, are you a native here, or are you a Diaspora a Armenian?

Interesting. That explains a lot. Thanks.

Sounds about right, Gypsy sects like Armenians are always trying to “play both sides” and “have their cake and eat it” too. Deeply disloyal and have banked on the belief that playing victim in the western canon will be sufficient in giving them what they want, i.e. more land that doesn’t belong to them.

Interesting, so how does Russia come out on top in this situation, if Armenia cedes that Territory and the Azeris gain control how does Russia benefit by just standing by and letting the Armenians get punished?

what weapons? They already gave what they had. There is almost nothing left. The same speech/note stated that all on going contracts will be fulfilled and military transfer hub in Rzeszów will be working as usual. There is nothing more to it.

They already reverted that comment, look it up.

Political theater. I predict inside a month Poland with get some under the table advantage with arms supply, the Polish farmers will get some sort of price floor and Ukraine will go back to the status quo ante.

Poland is under investigation for selling hundreds of thousands asylum seeker fast tracked visas (allowing them to travel to Germany/France etc) If you give Google a quick search the stories are running over the last week. They're still being investigated for corruption issues pre covid, too. Elections are looming, so the ruling party is pulling the smoke and mirrors play.

@@markbernier8434 Polish farmers have guaranteed price for their grain for a while now. Problem is with Ukrainian/Russian oligarchs that are doing this stuff behind the scenes and sometimes while in home arrest like Dmitry Firtash good buddy of Putin.

We all know that these official statements aren't worth anything by now.

​@bastiat4855get lost Armenian propagandist. after occupying Azerbaijan and dismissing all UN resolutions to leave it's territory, you now come here to talk rubbish

But how's that relevant to Azerbaijan taking territory at an opportune time?

KZfaq is not perfect and can be annoying, but we are living in an amazing age of information media distribution! People are making thier own documtaries and news channels!! Enjoy this while lasts!

@hleth4888 it doesn’t cost much of either in order to sound a lot better. Why do you feel it’s a waste of time and money to improve the audio quality of the presentation?

@hleth4888 Agree 100%.

@@Oxibasebecause every single thought, sentence and utterance is perfectly audible. I don’t want any of Peter’s time or concern taken by useless tasks, like improving perfectly audible sound quality. CNN has plenty of coverage if perfect audio quality matters to you.

@@texasoilfields it doesn’t even need to be perfect. Just not horrible. And CNN has issues that no amount of audio quality can ever make up for. And believe it or not, it’s actually more difficult to hear everything Peter is saying due to the poor audio, so it does actually matter.

@@Oxibase waaaah! Waaaaaah! Waaaaah!

They're not an "ancient" whatsoever. Visit the land and you won't see any differences from surrounding nations, even quite the opposite. It's what Trump would call a ex-soviet sh!thole and it only was independent for a few centuries before it was sacked and vassalized by really great powers such as Persians, Greeks, Mongols and Turks. Now, it's somehow a leftover of Russian sphere, but it is about to turn back to the former rulers. You should visit these countries instead of fantasizing this bubble. Same with Greece. It's a middle eastern sh!thole, but with the exception of good Turkish food and beautiful beaches.

It’s not more special than it’s neighbors. Georgia is a wonderful country to visit- far better food and sights. With regard to Turkey and Azerbaijan ganging up on them I don’t see how they deserve much sympathy after doing the same thing to the Azeris in the 90s by ganging up with Russia.

Not everything is a genocide! You can't always hide behind the genocide and avoid responsibility for your past atrocities and mistakes. Go read the wikipedia site about the conflict. It is very informative. 800'000 Azeries were displaced around Nagorno Karabach and Armenia. Almost a 100'000 were killed in Armenia. Yes, both sides committed atrocities. But you are here blaming only one side.

i don't think diaspora in russia richer than in US, yet being larger. Ukraine have/had too large diaspora of armanians yet it is not a reason to break up

@@newwonderer : There is fundamental difference between the two , a lot of the Armenians working in Russia ( or Ukraine) keep strong family ties in Armenia including close family members, properties and visit regularly since it's only a train ride away. Migrants to the US are less likely to come back or keep properties ..

To be fair, he's a geopolitics expert, not a KZfaqr.

@@sidzero But most of what he says is a lie though, just talking points.

CIA?? What do you mean?

So what? It's not like anyone helps Armenia anyway, and it's Armenians getting bombed, starved and deported from their ancestral homelands, not Azerbaijanis. As I understood, the Azerbaijani perspective is pretty much "since no one will help you, give us the lands we want or we bomb and starve your people more".

So anyone who mentions the Armenian ethnic cleansing of a million Azeris in the 90s is on Azerbaijan payroll. So no one is allowed to mention anything against Armenia? You reap what you sow, and Armenia not only took NK, but took adjacent territory that was never populated by Armenians, sorry you had the chance to negotiate then but squandered it.

Agreed…..Great comment!!

You Armenians really are something. tell me which Armenian entity had existed in that region for close to 600 years, I'll tell you, non. Armenia is a recent formation of the Russian empire, same with AZERBAIJAN. you guys love the millions of years argument to defend the indefensible. I'm sure in the future when you invade Georgia you will also use the same old tired argument of ma ancestors million's of years land while the UN pens resolutions after resolutions telling you to withdraw from sovereign Georgian territory.

​​​@@damiendehorn6350 Bullshit. At least half of modern-day Azerbaijani territory has always been inhabited by Armenians. At least one-fifth of modern-day Turkish territory has always been populated by Armenians.

@@lambert801 Well if your playing that game then you should give everything to Africans as mankind originated there. But keep whining, you just lost that's all.

What is your impression of Azerbaijani people based on your experience?

Russian money runs Armenia. from the mines to the transport industry to the power generation industry to the manufacturing industry.

@edwardsnowden8821 Precisely, and it runs it but is not enough to make it thrive, just hold the line at best. When Pashinyan wanted to diversify away from RUS, this angered RUS, and RUS stepped up efforts of "balance". RUS had been already drifting away from ARM and you could see this in arms exports and other forms of high level meetings, but with Pashinyan, RUS has just been trying to find ways to leave ARM hanging, at least in a graceful way, but after the UKR war start, RUS and AZE stopped caring about grace.

Russia may be moving towards AZE, but they seem to be moving towards Turkiye. I recall watching a video of street interviews with AZE people a few months back and asked who they prefer between Russia and the EU, a few said the EU. None said Russia. But the vast majority of them stated they wanted to be part of a Turkic block led by Turkiye. Is Turkish influence going to rise as a result of the latest events rather than Russia's? I ask as I don't claim any expertise on this subject.

@@HR_8035_YEA I mean Peter and other geopolitical analysts have been talking about the future is going to be about the rise of regional powers. Turkiye is a rising power. Iran. Russia is shrinking, those two will fill the void. The rest of central asia is probably the wild west as russian and then chinese power recedes. Maybe India, but they are going to be more focused on Pakistan and possibly dealing with Bengladesh and Sri Lankan collapses.

@@Bigbudd0045 Interesting views. Thanks for sharing. I can see Turkiye growing in power steadily over the next decades for sure.

800 dollar phone vs 15 dollar headset.

Very interesting! Something I never considered before.

thats fascinating! I'd like to know more on this topic.

@@juniorjames7076 It's just an observation. There's also the Taurus and Zagros mountain range that shelters the Kurds, which has a mix of horizontal and diagonal valleys. Although the Incas lived in north-south mountains, their capitol was in a wide, round mountain that got more sun than the rest, with a lake in the middle that made them immune to siege. And then there's the much fought-over Kashmir Valley, oriented more east-west than north-south. I got to thinking about this when somebody mentioned the poverty of the Appalachians being in part because their north-south "hollows" got very little light and weren't good for growing much besides grass (hence a lot of dependence on dairy farming and fodder-corn) though some wider valleys had some good farms. So I started to look at the globe for east-west mountains, to see what sort of people would live in them, and all of these had fostered small but strong, independent communities that could grow their own food and let the rest of the world sail by, and who got really uppity when the outside world insisted on intruding.

that might explain the 5,000 km stabile border between Chile and Argentina, too?

@@martian9999 Good point!

Yeah, but make no mistake. They had all the odds staked in their favor in the 90s with lots of Russians even fighting on their side. They had all the chances in the dozens of peace talks, but they ultimately played hardball and even renamed the territories surrounding Karabakh and started to fund new settlements to set facts on the ground (like another famous little nation in the wider neighborhood). All of this happened because of incompetence and arrogance. Now, they are paying dearly and nobody cares

it's very clear cut. would you call a Ukrainian invasion of Crimea with its ethnic Russian majority unjustified. if you won't then karabakh is totally justified to be brought back into the sovereign territory of AZERBAIJAN.

From my experience and observations Azeris love to tell high tales. They have a nasty history of rewriting history and scientific fraud-the Armenians don't.

Armenia cleansed more than 700,000 Azerbaijani's from their homes in karabakh and seven surrounding territories of AZERBAIJAN, an action which was followed by renaming every azeri village, city and district with Armenian fabrications. eg Lachin was renamed Berdzor, khankendi became stephanakert, shusha became shushi, kelbajar became karvachar, karabakh became artsarkh.

Very true words. India knows the problems you describe all too well sadly. Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇬🇧

@@secretname4190 go and ask the UN and find thier report on the issue. it definitely is Lachin City not Bedford or whatever fake name Armenia always came up it.

​@ivancho5854 u as Ukrainenen are also ungrateful... Next time the muslims shiuld be with Russia and fak u up..

@@secretname4190 It needs to be drilled into your head. What he is saying is both true and based on facts.

It's the 1700s again, but with A.I.

Wtf the west support azerbaijan we want them to destroy Russia peace keepers

Armenia cleansed more than 700,000 Azerbaijani's from their homes in karabakh and seven surrounding territories of AZERBAIJAN, an action which was followed by renaming every azeri village, city and district with Armenian fabrications. eg Lachin was renamed Berdzor, khankendi became stephanakert, shusha became shushi, kelbajar became karvachar, karabakh became artsarkh.

There is no such thing as an unbiased view.

Armenia started this? Seems to me Armenia has been a punching bag for it's neighbors since biblical times.

@@edwardsnowden8821 Karabakh has always been Artsakh.

He does seem to really brush over all that 🤷🏽‍♂️

Historically accurate description and factual analysis I wish the creator of this video had done the same The West is silent due to the oil 🛢 and gas in the Caspian sea Hypocrite and two-sided Europeans are bowing to this brutal dictator aliev, and his regime

there actually is an "international law". It is called the rules based system. The rules are written by the global corporations and they are enforced by the US military. The UN is useless becuase individual countries can never agree. But, global corporations can agree 100% on rules that increase profits.

Yes…I’m here for the info…I never expect a comforting musical lullaby 😂🤣

BTW, I don’t think you need to worry about the Armenian lobby, it took a Russian S-400 in the middle of NATO air defenses in Turkey for the Biden Administration to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (106 years later).

No. That was just rhetoric to undermine Russia's influence in the region. Oh and Turkey has always been the worst ally of NATO, though France gives them a run for their money. Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇬🇧

well armania can't be in nATO since they are aggressor

how can an internationally acclaimed aggressor country like Armenia ever be allowed to stain the halls of NATO.

A country which invaded 20 percent of its neighbor should be on NATO?!