Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting in an ongoing war? Why is Azerbaijan split in two parts?
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They are fighting over a region called Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnically Armenian region which is home to Artsakh, a self-proclaimed independent country that no one recognizes. Kind of like the situation with China and Taiwan. The Armenians there don’t want to be part of Azerbaijan and they are backed up by Armenia. They fought a major war in the early 90s which resulted in the status quo, and ethnic Azeris getting displayed from there in the process, and there have been periodic clashes every now and then between Armenian/Artsakh and Azerbaijani forces.
Azerbaijan views Nagorno-Karabakh as it’s own rightful territory. To the Azerbaijanis, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh are a bunch of illegal secessionists and Armenian forces acting in support of them are occupying it’s rightful territory. To add to that, the decline in global oil prices as a result of Covid has been putting a strain on it’s oil-dependent economy, so the Azerbaijani government was likely feeling domestic political pressure and may have decided that now is the time for a military adventure to distract from that.
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