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So they want the Armenians in that city to die from starvation? The love of money, once again.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)


A senior Ukrainian official has said that the impact of Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh is being exaggerated as a Russian effort to distract the world's attention from the war in his country.
In an interview with the Moldovan public broadcaster, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the blockade was being "Pumped up" in order to "Distract attention from the war in Ukraine and redirect it to other conflict spots so the whole world looks there."
Beyond deflecting the world's attention, another "Goal" was that "Russia one way or another wants to return its dominant position" and "Demonstrate that only it can mediate to resolve conflicts like this." Russia also was using the issue of the blockade, "At the expense of reigniting the conflict," in order to put pressure on Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey "To make them more pro-Russian."


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that's a nice moral high-ground you have there, Ukraine - would be a shame if you were to just trash it completely >

It's unfortunately the common position of the world. Armenia has no resources or military power to offer to anyone, and their leaders have destroyed the country by bending over to russia for so long. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has important pipelines that the world wants access to. Armenia desperately needs to distance themselves from Russia, and i think by now most Armenians do want to, but it's far too late.
Ukraine's not taking the moral high ground by any means, but Azerbaijan is a fellow former soviet state that doesn't care for Putin's neo-soviet fever dreams. It makes perfect sense for them to be friendly with Azerbaijan.  And if Russia collapses, the sad truth is that no one is going to help Armenia when Azerbaijani tanks roll in the next day, so why bother trying to make friendly with Armenia?