European bureaucrats want sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine but say nothing about Azerbaijan invading Armenia

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OP are you interested in talking about why that is?

Or are you just here for the soundbite.

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It's because the security council has resolved that Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan. So when you wrote "invade" in the title, you were technically incorrect, because the region in question is internationally recognised as a part of Azerbaijan.

Here are some relevent UNSC resolutions

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/170257?ln=en

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/165604?ln=en

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I think I can offer some hindsight. Maybe it was because the Azerbaijan regime spends billions to "convince" European and American politicians?

Azerbaijan accused of running $2.8 billion 'secret slush fund' to pay off European politicians

Azerbaijan’s ruling elite ran a secret $2.8 billion slush fund for two years to pay off European politicians and pay for luxury purchases, an investigation has shown.

The secret fund, dubbed Azerbaijani Laundromat, operated for two years until 2014 and was used by the government to win favor among international peers, according to the report published this week by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

Azerbaijan’s Influence Over German Lawmakers Exposed

investigative research explores how Azerbaijani lobbyists have exerted influence over Germany’s Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) parliamentary group over the years. In the supporting role for this effort: Azerbaijani lobbyists also bought the local Berlin TV station that broadcasts regime-friendly interviews.

New VICE research on the #Azerbaijan affair: Aliyev’s secret army of interns in the Bundestag, Germany

Interns from Azerbaijan establish a network in parliament. With strange connections to the Aliyev regime – and to German politicians

How Azerbaijan Is Lobbying Washington to Sanitize Its War

Documents reveal a flurry of activity to convince beltway elites that Armenia is the aggressor and the U.S. should favor Azerbaijan.

Or maybe it was because UN resolutions are insignificant and only the power of weapons matters?

Five killed in latest massacre as Turkey strikes refugee camp deep inside Iraqi Kurdistan

AT least five people were killed and many more injured in two separate Turkish air strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan yesterday, one of which targeted a UN-administered refugee camp.

Or maybe it was because the Azeris don't hide their genocidal instincts and have made them part of their official policy and are even proud of them and will literally get away with murder thanks to the billions mentioned before?

Genocidal sentiment of Azeris and the role of Hungarian government in the escape of the murderer Ramil Safarov

A week before Safarov's release there came reports that the two countries were in talks over a loan from Azerbaijan to Hungary of 2-3bn euros ($2.5-3.8bn; £1.6-2.4bn) which gave way to speculations in Hungary that Orbán extradited Safarov in return for a promise that Azerbaijan would buy Hungarian bonds.