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After Russia shot down a passenger plane last December, Azerbaijan is prepared for arbitration despite Russian media's intimidation attempts (www.azernews.az)
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The relations between Baku and Moscow are witnessing one of the most tense periods in the last 30 years due to the arrogance of the Kremlin.

Consumed by the belief of being a superpower and an extraordinary state in the world, Russia does not intend to admit its responsibility for shooting down the Azerbaijani plane en route from Baku to Grozny on December 25, 2024. On the contrary, it has started an old scenario that is well-known from the events in Georgia in 2008 and more recently in Ukraine.

Like in both events, some lesser-known Russian media outlets (not mainstream media outlets yet) and pundits started to threaten Azerbaijan following the news that Baku was going to bring the issue to international arbitration. Practice suggests that if Azerbaijan does not give up its righteous claims (which nobody expects it to), the Russian mainstream media will jump into the fray and start discussing whether Azerbaijan has a statehood history or not; how Bolsheviks granted a “state” to Azerbaijanis who are ungrateful to her majesty Matushka Rossiya; and all that. It is their old tactic to cow all the former Soviet republics. To tell the truth, we are fed up with such rhetoric from the Russian media.

Being well aware of Russian tactics, we, Azerbaijanis, expect more threats in the coming days. However, does it intimidate us? Of course, it does not. Neither Ukraine nor Georgia can be a warning for us. Because both Georgia and Ukraine follow in our footsteps, not the other way around. Thirty years ago, during its weakest and most difficult times, Azerbaijan expelled Russia from its territory without yielding to any threat. At that time, unlike Ukraine which inherited over 1800 nuclear warheads, intercontinental missiles, strategic bombardment aircraft, and other weapons from the USSR, Azerbaijan did not get anything but the Garabagh conflict. However, Azerbaijan did not walk back. As a result, Russia lost the biggest country in the region and eventually, it lost the South Caucasus.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I am not here for that long. In another post in this comm, I just saw very strange comments (see here: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29380228). I don't understand that, and I don't appear to be the only one ...