Do you support Armenia or Azerbaijan in the current conflict?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Broadly speaking I do not think it is a good idea to view wars as sporting fixtures, in which one roots for one team or the other. Which is certainly not the same thing as studied neutrality: some outcomes are worse than others.

In this particular case it should probably be noted that the Azeri government has been quite open about it's desire to ethnically cleanse Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh were it to conquer it. I tend to think that this would not be a very good thing to happen and hope that it does not. Of course it isn't certain if this invasion is supposed to be The Big Push or if it has more limited objectives. Though on this point the involvement of neighbouring states - especially Turkey - and foreign auxiliaries is concerning. It is no great secret that the Azeri military is greatly inferior to the Armenian and that considerable outside support would be a precondition of any serious attempt to conquer the province.