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The momentous Putin/Xi Summit and subsequent joint declaration issued by the two leaders represents a checkmating of the West and a burying of the US divide and conquer manoeuvre began half a century ago by President Nixon, in February 1972. The joint Chinese/Russian statement that emerged from the summit is over 5000 words long and…
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“I don’t accept anybody’s red lines!” U.S. President Joe Biden, December 4, 2021, Washington. “As a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state I have to ask myself: Why would we want a world without Russia?” Russian President Vladimir Putin. The foreign policy of the United States has lately consisted of the…
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TRT World’s new book “The Karabakh Gambit: Responsibility for the Future” offers an insightful examination of the prominent aspects of the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the future implications for the South Caucasus. Download it for free here: The book, published by TRT World Research Centre, is edited by researchers Turan Gafarlı…
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The President of the United States has declared that the Ottoman Empire committed Genocide against the Armenians. In his statement chastising Turkey, President Biden chose not to mention the millions of Ottoman Muslims killed by the actions of the invading Imperialist Powers and their Armenian allies from 1914-22. According to the US demographer, Justin McCarthy,…
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“Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring… Today, as we mourn what was lost, let us also turn our eyes to the future – toward the world that we wish to…
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The flare up of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which has resulted in a number of military and civilian deaths and fears of a new war in the region, is all about Armenia and its unbalancing since the coming to power of its present Prime Minister, Nicol Pashinyan. There is a strong tendency in the…
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To understand the point of this article we need to revisit something that George Curzon (later Lord) said in the British Parliament. At the time Curzon was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and he said it in the course of defending traditional British policy with regard to the Ottoman Empire, on behalf of Lord…
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A Talk given by Dr. Patrick Walsh at the London School of Economics on February 15th 2013 The events that occurred in Eastern Anatolia in 1915 should be located in a broader context than simply that of Turk against Armenian. Both Turks and Armenians were, after all, actors in a much wider drama that was…
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Editorial from Irish Church and State magazine, April 2020: “This Virus is God’s warning” The Daily Telegraph of March 26th carried a large photo of a man bearing a placard with this message. It was a picture of an extreme eccentric. God is dead for all practical purpose. He has been abolished by…
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Aside from the policy of the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, there were two other factors that led to the loss of the Caucasus to the Bolsheviks. The first of these was that special and discordant element in the region, the Armenians – who immensely complicated matters. The second was Britain’s continuing and purposeless hostile…
