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[–]said 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Poor guys. Any chance someone can translate?

[–]Red23 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Poor guys? They weren't there to deliver medicine.

[–]Krehlmar 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Armenia is a population of 3.5 million, versus Azer+Turkey's 90 million. Add in the armenian genocide... Yeah they're poor guys.

[–]bookluminous 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Poor guys suit everyone there. It just turns out those ones lost this time. It could have been the others. In the end they are all there due to a shitty life and horrible selfish decisions from other people that are safe.

[–]Red23 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sums up war in general really.

[–]Noshoes 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm guessing some variation of "fuck fuck they're shooting at us"

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

Shell shocked...

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

Is this from a recent conflict? What is going on here?

[–]ElonMuskOfficial 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, this is the result of a land dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Basically, the Nagorno-Karabakh region has an ethnic Armenian majority and has historically been under Armenian control or influence, but it's legally recognized internationally as belonging to Azerbaijan due to some complicated Soviet fuckery. In '94, the two countries fought a conflict over this same region resulting in Armenian forces capturing this region and some other bits of Azerbaijani land. A ceasefire was negotiated and things stayed mostly quiet for awhile, but Armenia was still exerting sovereignty over the captured areas. A peaceful solution perhaps seemed like a possibility in a few years, but current Armenian leadership has taken a hard stance on the matter, which the Azerbaijani leadership doesn't like. On September 27th, Armenia declared martial law in the region, claiming Azerbaijan had launched a military operation against them. This whole situation has kind of reignited the stalled conflict and that's what we're seeing here, with Armenia attempting to fully reclaim what was theirs for so long and Azerbaijan trying to regain control of lands that are legally within their borders.

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

Thank you for the thorough response. This sounds like a complicated matter.