Why are Turkey and Azerbaijan targeting Armenia and Greece?

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Because they are a bunch of inbreds lead by inbreds.

Look back to the ancient world when the Persian didn't consider Greek worth their time to bother with unless they literally started burning cities to the ground.

Modern Turkey bombs a few villages and calls it a great military victory.

That's what a victimhood narrative does to you.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Erdoğan has some serious delusions of being some kind of Turkish-Hitler-Messiah. My sincerest wish is that some Kurdish people finally get close enough to this abomination to finally off him.

If he couldn't spread propaganda about some military pseudo-"wins" 24/7 more Turkish residents would realize how fucked up his politics are. The Lira is flying high above 8% inflation for almost a decade now.

Like Israel and Pakistan, he is an expert in playing both sides of every conflict.

Älijew renewed his personal overly-narcissistic power trip hallucination when German diplomats went to him to buy his gas. Elections in Azerbaijan are basically a complete fake. But politicians from EU keep validating him because they want his oil and gas. The fact that he just invaded Armenia for the second time in a year is kept under some nice rugs with glitter on them. Russia, which protected Armenia in last year's invasion and achieved a truce between those two Nations, is occupied in Ukraine this year.

[–]carn0ld03 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Because it'll provoke Russia.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But not the EU who should be protecting Greece, apparently.

[–]carn0ld03 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Never under-estimate the legacy of power by intimidation through cold war era fear mongering. The Turkish straits connect the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the Black Sea, a strategically and commercially valuable sea transportation route. With Azerbaijan under soviet control, it was easy to pressure Greece and Turkey into joining NATO after WW2. Controlling this junction point enabled NATO to administratively restrict the late Soviet Navy, and NATO continues to use its control of this point to restrict the Iranian and Russian Federation Navies respectively. With NATO moving to the Ukraine, Greece has diminished in strategic importance. Greece failing to have used the previously peaceful decades to develop infrastructure and develop a more unified people is also a hold over from how thoroughly infiltrated their society was prior to the dissolution of the Ottoman empire.