The ceasefire breaks as fighting erupts between Azeris and Armenians

Fighting broke out between Armenians and Azeris. What this signals is that the ceasefire isn’t going to fix things, and that the fighting and tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh is going to be ongoing and continuous, giving opportunities to both Turkey and Russia to capitalize on the situation to advance their own geopolitical goals. Overall, this is about the revival of empires — both the Turkish and Russian empires — which historically have had control over the regions of the Caucasus:

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