Here is a VERY long history of this region from Russian born Dreizin. Lots of details.
Israel, then Turkey aided the Azeris. i copied some stuff from near the end. He starts WAY back in time.
https://thedreizinreport.com/2023/09/09/solving-the-kardashians/...
Until circa 1600, the territory now comprising the state of Azerbaijan, and northwest Iran, was likely still majority-inhabited by Indo-Iranians, primarily (not exclusively but primarily) Armenians in what’s now Azerbaijan, and Iranians in northwest Iran.
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This gives you an idea as to how relatively few Azeris lived in Baku. Or, perhaps, how little they mattered.
Under Soviet rule, the rural population was somewhat lifted up, made literate, and to some extent urbanized, such that by 1991, there was a large Azeri majority in the city, with an entirely Soviet-created, Azeri secular “intelligentsia”, where none whatsoever had existed before.
In short, the USSR created the state of Azerbaijan, which did NOT have its own history like Armenia or Georgia.
However, Azeris counted for very little in the USSR.
Coming from a low cultural level (prior to the Revolution), unlike Armenia and Georgia, they produced no major names for Soviet culture or industry. Certainly, there were people of local talent, but they did not make it on the national stage.
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Azeri politics were finally stabilized by a former local KGB boss and USSR Politburo member, last name Aliev. His son is still ruling the country, 30 years later.
Sadly, the period (from 1988) leading up to Independence, was accompanied by huge pogroms against Armenians living in all Azerbaijani cities.
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Several hundred thousand Armenians were driven out, destitute, into Armenia, or Russia. Almost no Armenians remained, the country was cleansed.
A process begun circa 1500AD, was completed.
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Starting around 2007, Israel began courting Azerbaijan as an “Israeli airstrip and refueling station” for potential bombing of Iranian nuclear sites.
(You see, unlike the USA, Israel has no planes that can fly 3000km round-trip without refueling.)
Almost immediately, AIPAC, with its ears to the ground, sent a delegation of some of its board and top donors, to meet with Aliev’s son and his wife. They were given a command performance at the national opera hall or whatever, and a tour of the (formerly) Jewish quarter of Baku.
(I read about this in AIPAC’s public newsletter, it happened just before I worked there, I’m NOT disclosing anything.)
Quietly, Israel and Azerbaijan became allies.
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Later, Erdogan’s “neo-imperial” Turkey stepped in, taking over all planning, doctrine, organization, etc. for the Azeri air force, which soon included, and in fact, became largely…..
….A DRONE ARM.
By 2020, when the younger Aliev launched a war to retake Karabakh, the Azeri side—with Turkish “advisors” likely running the show—had many Turkish as well as perhaps several hundred Israeli surveillance and purpose-built kamikaze drones (the world’s best) in stock.
It was the first drone war.
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Today, Armenia’s “Quisling” government, with a security cabinet of Soros program graduates, with only minority (public) support, but without a coherent, functional opposition, is preparing to give up Karabakh, swing away from Russia, and become a joint protectorate of the U.S. and Turkey.
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The Final Triumph of the Turks in the south Caucasus, and the final (really final, this time) solution to the Armenian Question…..
…..seems to be at hand.
