After the outcome of the second nagorno-karabahk war where Azerbaijan wiped out the Armenian military in basically a month and then a few years later the threat to do it again led to a complete ethnic cleansing of nagorno karabahk, in any near peer conflict, the country with the most suicide drones is going to win.
In my mind the suicide drone to warfare is the equivalent of rifled barrels and smokeless powder. It’s a complete game changer and I’m glad the DPRK is going in this direction
Same energy as convincing the little brother to do something you don’t want to get in trouble for and when he doesn’t get yelled at you do the same thing.
Funnily enough in Armenian circles it’s that Palestinians support Azerbaijan and the Turks. Works on some people but it’s pretty easy to point out Israeli weapons killing Armenians, Israelis trying to ethically cleanse Armenians from Jerusalem, Israel supporting isis in Syria and so on
I feel that many of them will be Operation Nemosis’d, where the Young Turk leaders were killed by Armenian socialists and Bolsheviks after the Genocide.
The rank and file will mostly be unharmed but there’s no way bibi and his ilk die of old age if Palestine is liberated soon
Right before the Turks invaded Afrin, Russia and Syria offered an alliance to the SDF and the SDF chose not to. They would rather be dogs for America than protect their own people.
I know a lot of Tauregs lived in Libya and fought for Gaddafi. When the west overthrew the country the Tauregs were essentially ethnically cleansed and went into Mali. Then some of them started fighting the western backed government and allied with Islamists which can mean anything there.
I don’t know if this group of Tauregs is the same but I doubt it. I haven’t been following the fallout from the Arab Spring much in recent years since much of it has become frozen
It’s been a long time and I haven’t looked into it since it happened, but from what I remember before the west got a hold of the story was that Syrian militias were chasing either ISIS or some other similar group and there were going to launch an offensive on their stronghold. The Syrians crossed some imaginary red line in the sand around their al tanf base so the US bombed a few of them. The rest turned around and returned to their bases. At the time there was no mention of Russians or even mercenaries. Russia in Syria was mainly their air force with soldiers protecting their bases. Russian troops didn’t really fight except in a few instances.
I think the narrative took hold that America stomped the Russians was to saturated the news before people heard that America just killed a bunch of people to protect ISIS or al-qaeda
Syria was the proto-ukraine in terms of propaganda and I followed the war since 2012 or so. It was interesting watching al-qaeda split in HTS and ISIS with the Turks supporting both at one point as well as the Israelis. A lot of information from the war has been erased off the internet or at least the English speaking side
Only thing I can think of is that France often pays lip service for Armenian causes and this is either France being pissy about karabahk or Azerbaijan being pissy about France’s support of Armenia.
Similar thing happened when France criminalized denial of the Armenian Genocide so Turkey recognized the millions of Algeriens killed by France as a genocide
A pretty interesting book about Armenian Marxist Monte Melkonian is My Brother’s Road by Markar Melkonian, himself a Marxist journalist. Monte was a leader in the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) an anti-Turkish/NATO/Israel ML group based out of Lebanon and allied with the PFLP and probably the Soviets. The book is interesting because no one really knows anything about this very secret organization but goes pretty in depth of one of the top commanders who seemingly was involved with many of the conflicts in the middleast from the mid 70s onwards. He was involved in the 79 revolution in Iran and the Lebanese civil war and invasion by Israel. ASALA got started during the civil war as a kind of neighborhood defense thing in Beirut but they expanded their operations through the middle east and Europe. The group eventually splits and Hagop’s group carries hired assassinations while Monte’s group fights in the first karabahk war, where he ends getting killed. There’s a lot of great stories in this book though from blowing up Israeli tanks alongside the PFLP to getting arrested and the negotiation to get him released is we’re going to cancel your embassies if you don’t let Monte go, which they did.
ASALA is still around as sort of a boogie man but they haven’t done anything since the late 90s. The Turkish nationalists often insinuate that ASALA created the PKK, but to my knowledge I don’t think the two groups really worked together, but someone else my know more.
Markar also published a collection of his writings in The Wrong Train from the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent Soviet Armenian Republic and the transition to capitalist system but I’m a lazy butt and never finished it.
I don’t think Markar is a academic Marxist considering he never denounced his brother who basically was the like the old school Bolsheviks that were in Stalin’s group.
Some other famous Armenian Marxist are:
The Mikoyan brothers. One is where MiG jets comes from and the other was a Bolshevik politician active from Lenin to Khrushchev and was a personal friend of Stalin from childhood. He was a negotiator during the cuban missile crisis and loved ice cream more than socialism according to Stalin.
There’s Bagramyan a marshal of the soviet union during the Great Patriotic War. He led the liberation of the Baltics
Simon “Kamo” Der-Petrosian was a main member of Stalins group and his biggest thing was the Yerevan Square Expropriation which was a heist that ended killing like a dozen Tsarist Pigs and stole millions. He eventually got caught, was sentenced to execution, feigned insanity and was freed during the revolution where his group was so brutal to spies even Lenin told him to chill.
Sergei Lavrov is a former Marxist and favorite RBF diplomat of the Russian Fed. In the Soviet days he spent a lot of time in Sri Lanka and is fluent in Sinhala. He’s more of a hardliner than Putin and was a cheerleader of the DPR and LPR basically from the onset.
I’m sure there’s many more especially from the Soviet Union but I’m just going off the top of my head. Marxism was extremely popular in the Armenian community since it was the capitalist faction of the Turks that engaged the genocide. The Armenian community was split between the dashnaks who were the pro revolution social Democrats and Marxists. There were some libs but most understood revolution. The Dashnaks were/are anti Soviet and tend to be pretty conservative nowadays. The Marxists don’t really exist in an organized fashion mostly fading away after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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After the outcome of the second nagorno-karabahk war where Azerbaijan wiped out the Armenian military in basically a month and then a few years later the threat to do it again led to a complete ethnic cleansing of nagorno karabahk, in any near peer conflict, the country with the most suicide drones is going to win.
In my mind the suicide drone to warfare is the equivalent of rifled barrels and smokeless powder. It’s a complete game changer and I’m glad the DPRK is going in this direction