The US has been friendly with Armenia for several years. They’re not very friendly with Turkey at the moment. If this escalates it will be interesting to see how the US handles it.
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything." - Miyamoto Musashi
A "friendly" relationship simply because there's no end-game we're competing for there at odds with any part of the government. Armenia is reliant on Russia for defense, as well as Russia owning/operating most of their economy; some assert it's basically a puppet state of Russia.
So, there's not much of an opportunity for us to give them anything when they're already getting it from elsewhere and don't have an option to get it elsewhere even if they wanted to.
Turkey is much more strategic. My guess is we'd find a way to support Turkey as a way of trying to bring them back in line with US/NATO interests instead of continuing down their path of destructive man-child petulance. Entirely possible they might tell us to fuck off and just buy shit from the Russians or Chinese, since both countries have no problem selling shit to opposing belligerents with no strings attached.
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What do you mean by historical? IMO, justification for containment isn’t hard. It was still less than a century ago that we avoided containment at all costs and then by the time we realized this appeasement had failed, we had to fight damn near all of Europe.
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I disagree whole heartedly. Justification for containment is extremely difficult to achieve, these days.
The historical policy of containment (Cold War) is directly responsible for every U.S war and most military actions since WW2. Korea, Vietnam, everything that we did in Central and South America, and all the shit from the mid-east was all done in the name of containment of communism or because of fallout from containment policies.
There are still some (not many, but a few), who view it as the responsibility of the U.S. to check Russian growth, it isn't.
Right now, we'd do well to let Turkey and Russia have their little proxy war, our play is low key intelligence gathering and psychological operations to sow dissent and hamper radical Islam recruiting efforts.
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You do understand that religion has nothing to do with this war, right?
Apparently there are Russian gas and oil pipelines run through the area.
We could isolate Russia totally from the world and maybe they could apply for membership after 2000 years.
I understand what you are saying. We have been training their soldiers both in Armenia and here for several years. We have also been doing humanitarian missions in Armenia for several years. I know that has little to do with how things shake out diplomatically or strategically during a conflict but it does add another layer to the complexity of the situation.
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything." - Miyamoto Musashi