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Biden is being played by Azerbaijan

By Michael Rubin

Published March 6, 2023 8:25am ET

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Biden is being played by Azerbaijan — In this handout photo taken from a footage released by Azerbaijanâs Defense Ministry on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, Azerbaijanâs soldiers fire from a mortar at the contact line of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued on Monday morning after erupting the day before, with both sides blaming each other for resuming the attacks. | (Azerbaijanâs Defense Ministry via AP)

On Sept. 27, 2020, on the 100th anniversary of the Ottoman Turkish attack on the newly independent Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan attacked the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. While initially unsuccessful, the local Armenian defense forces collapsed after Turkish Special Forces and F-16s joined in. Before both sides accepted a ceasefire, Armenians lost control of half the enclave they ruled.

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