There is no doubt there are elements of progaganda involved to delegitimize Azerbaijan and create pressure and leverage. But two things can actually be true at the same time. From what I read so far, it seems Aliyev seems to be holding onto power illegally. Of course different parties could use this undemocratic nature of current state to advance their mulicious propaganda and delegitimize Azerbaijan's legitimate claims. But that doesn't mean, current undemocratic state of affair in Azerbaijan is untrue.
It probably depends on what country you're comparing us to.
We were a colony of Russia for almost 200 years. Everyone knows what democracy is in Russia. Life in the Soviet Union was not much different from prison.
In 1918, it was Azerbaijan, with the help of the Ottoman Empire, that for the first time in the East proclaimed a democratic republic. Ask when in democratic France (and not only there) women received the right to vote in elections. 30 years after us!
Our republic is only 33 years old. We declared our independence during the war!
By the way, the West blamed us most of all when we had democrats in power!
When Saddam occupied Kuwait, America sent an army of half a million across the ocean to punish the aggressor. And when Christian Armenia did the same, America imposed sanctions. No, not against the aggressor, but against us - the victims of aggression.
America hanged Saddam. But she told us to come to terms with military reality!
That is, this has absolutely nothing to do with democracy. This is more likely to do with the arrogance and meanness of these gentlemen than with democracy.
Today it is connected with our independent foreign policy and, of course, our religion
The United States, Russia and France, which, within the framework of the Minsk Group, acted as mediators in the proposed solution to the conflict. And it was these 3 countries that supported the aggressor Armenia for 30 years! Can you imagine? Moreover, all of them, and indeed the whole world, officially recognized Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan!!!
And these freaks supposedly want to see us as a democratic country?
After we liberated Karabakh from the occupation of Armenia, representatives of these three countries came to us.
And Aliyev simply kicked them out, with orders not to come here again...
It vas a slap in the face. White «gentlemen» have never been so humiliated. But what about?! If there is no fair trial in the world under American hegemony, it will collapse very soon.It was
look at the map. If we exclude Russia in the north and Iran in the south, then Azerbaijan is the only corridor to Central Asia for the West!
If you want to go through Russia, ask Putin.
Through Iran?
Beg the Ayatollahs of Tehran.
But if you want to pass through Azerbaijan, then you should not set conditions for us.
We will set conditions for you!!! Because this is our country, we don’t owe you anything,
and no one, under any pretext, can dictate to us.
That's what they need here, not democracy
