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[–] Drusas@kbin.run 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Historical, yes. They have recently realized that Russia does not have their back and the relationship has changed.

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[–] sunzu@kbin.run -2 points 2 years ago

No doubt and good policy shift imho but west ain't gonna save them now, they really can't.

Their best bet is Iran who can actually do something and has a reason to do so but that's another mistake tbh too.

Not really sure what Armenia can do at this point since Azerbaijan appears to be on a war path and has capability to execute.

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[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

Russia is withdrawing troops from Armenia

Armenia doesn't support the war in Ukraine

Armenia had a war with Azerbaijan which was supplied with weapons by Belarus, which is closely integrated with Russia

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Study a little bit of the history of great power alliances and the group of "historically allied with Russia" becomes pretty large.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

6 members

 Armenia[note 1]
 Belarus[note 2]
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Russia
 Tajikistan

3 former members

 Azerbaijan
 Georgia
 Uzbekistan

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

History most decidedly did not start in 1992.

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[–] sunzu@kbin.run -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah Armenia was part of the russia empire and USSR before for 170 years before that and still chose to ally with its oppressor lol

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

I was actually talking about things like the Entente, the WW2 Allies, the League of Three Emperors, the Holy Alliance, the Quintuple Alliance, the League of the North, etc.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Russia is siding with Azerbaijan currently because EU was replacing Russian gas with theirs

Armenia isn’t impressed with their protector siding with the country killing them