Just over a year ago, Azerbaijan attacked the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. That was five days after the State Department falsely assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States would never tolerate military action against the democratic, self-governing entity.
In the days that followed, Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed the entirety of the region, ending a millennia-old Armenian community there. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev did not even maintain a small residual Armenian community to trot out as a museum exhibit for visiting dignitaries, as he does with Azerbaijani Jews.
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