Sorry but they have a Russian puppet as president that was blocking the liberation of Karabagh up until now; that's why they have to buy Russian junks like Mig-35 and never think about Jf-17 and Turkish weapons
I will be the happiest man on Earth once Aliyev retires
I'm just thinking here.
In the 90's Turkey was struggling against PKK and there was the Balkan wars. We didn't have the technology or defence industry independence. But despite that Tansu stacked TSK on the border to Nakcivan stopping any further Armenian incursion. We couldn't even give Azerbaijan a Helicopter to evacuate Khocali...
All of that continues to now, only difference is we got through economic crises in 2008-2012 better than most. You are aware of all the crap we've been through.
So why is ppl saying Aliyev is pro russian.
Shall we analyze the situation a bit.
Aliyev has spent his time staying on good terms with Putin, buying russian crap, in short giving shitload of money to Russia, building up goodwill and such, waiting patiently despite what ppl would say about him. Waiting until Turkey could back her up on this level.
Why. In short if Turkey had waltzed in, then Russian would have waltzed in. So Turkey did what we had to do to stay out and thereby keeping russians out of that place.
Azerbaijan in war with Russia would be the worst possible outcome, we'd have to abandon a lot to stand by Azerbaijan, and all our enemies would encrouch us even more. Just like how Ottomans fucked up in the past had to bed UK for help, and gave up Cyprus.
If Azerbaijan had prematurely done something things could go bad. NK region was being attempted to be recognized as a state, and should Russia have decided to recognize it, then we'd be fucked. Remember Crimea....
Stuck in a shitty war with so many fronts we'd have to pull out and back. We'd probably have recognize PKK stat, leave Iraq, leave Libya before the western allies would come to the help. Now if we had nukes, things could be different....
Now, Aliyev, he knows this, so does our Genel Kurmay Baskanligi, so he had to use his head and in a roundabout way keep his ppl alert, but not riled up. He needed to stay in power and wait. If Putin is devious, then Aliyev needs to be even more devious.
Slowly ever so slowly build up. Use the crappy russian arms but have turkish defence gear in support. Make sure that this action is Azerbaijani retake and not Turkey's.
Who's to say what we've traded with the russians to be able to do this. But look at the cards on the table, so many fronts, so many conflicts, Russia is heavily invested in Syria and they don't have access to oil, and in Libya peace is approaching, but Italian, US and French firms have the oil.
Armenia has nothing to offer Russia, but the Turks can give them a piece of the pie. If necessary 320 billion cubic is a lot, or another shitty deal with Gazprom.
Aliyev invested in an oil refinery in Turkey, so we've been building up slowly, one step at a time, if we had been all powerful too early They'd have done something like recognizing NK as part of Armenia and come to the rescue, so the timing is right, and the Armenian provocation came at the right time too. As if it was planned.