At least someone has read Thucydides.
Firstly, fuck Partisan Girl, but secondly, fuck the Turks and their bullshit. No more Turkey, society has progressed past the need for Turkey.
No. I wish to end the concept of the Turkish nation. Raw force would be insufficient in achieving that goal.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The area is (or was) ruled by an unrecognised republic which unilaterally declared independence from The Soviet Union/Azerbaijan back in '91, which triggered a mass exodus of Azerbaijanis from the region. The Republic of Artsakh is allied with Armenia because it's majority ethnic group is Armenian, and is de facto part of Armenia, but has always been internationally recognised as Azerbaijani and is an enclave wholly within Azerbaijan's borders. The anger in Armenia over the loss of territory is understandable, but realistically they were never likely to be able to retain it since they were militarily outmatched by the Azerbaijanis, and no outside aid was likely to be forthcoming since trying to stop Azerbaijan from exercising control over what is agreed to be it's own territory would definitely be illegal.
But Turkey is a check on Iran, without Turkey we would only have Israel, and incompetent Saudis to check them.
Well, there's also Pakistan, but Pakistan is only capable of devising foreign policy interventions that make things worse, rather than better.
Pakistan has zero meaningful influence whatsoever except over Afghanistan, which is just about the world's worst middle of nowhere. Afghanistan is such that it's virtually a both no-go area for anyone (including, tragically, many Afghans themselves), and has little or nothing worth occupying. It's virtually an impassable terrain, like Switzerland in your average WW2 board/computer game.
Yeah, but Pakistan is a nuclear power thanks to AQ Khan with an intelligence service of unknown allegiance. That alone makes the border dispute with Kashmir a tricky one despite Pakistan being a dwarf in comparison. Not to mention the madrassas and the tribal areas full of jihadis and the real risk the country might one day be overthrown with the help of ISI. Afghanistan might be the middle of nowhere ISI's support of former mullah Omar and the Taliban and their long history there and the problems it caused for the rest of the world is an ill omen.
