Why did Stalin give the Armenian region of Nagarno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan?
Why didn't Russia help Armenia to take back Nagarno-Karabakh during the Armeno-Azeri war of the 1990's?
Who cares?
Same reason Tajikistan's borders are fucked. Divide and conquer. Also Russia's economy was down the shitter in the 90s while its army was occupied fighting Chechens.
>>531779
>its army was occupied fighting Chechens
And Moldovans.
And Georgians.
And Tajiks.
Armenians and Azeris just took care of the fighting part themselves, so Russia now supports the weaker side in order to make the region permanently fucked.
Armenia is basically encircled by enemies with zero perspectives but Azerbaijan can't resolve conflict with Russia backing Armenia.
>>531682
>Why did Stalin give the Armenian region of Nagarno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan?
Administrative simplicity
>Why didn't Russia help Armenia to take back Nagarno-Karabakh during the Armeno-Azeri war of the 1990's?
If you can do nothing and probably have things work out more-or-less favorably, why risk a larger conflict?
>>531699
cause this is a /his/ board faggot
>>531682
divide and conquer tactics, every ex-ussr state has similar shitty borders, so that russia can swoop in at a later date and invade again.
>>531871
>Armenia is basically encircled by enemies with zero perspectives
How did Armenia manage to win then?
Also Iran and Georgia aren't Armenia's enemies, are they?
>>533748
Mongolia has god-tier borders desu
>>531682
Give Azeri land back
>>533948
Maybe but what does that have to do with anything
>>533948
and that is because mongolia wasn't in the ussr, even though they were a communist state for a time
you fucking dumbo
>>533802
>How did Armenia manage to win then?
Because Karabakh indeed was majorly Armenian. Why wouldn't they attack Nakhchivan which is a perfect enclave instead, I mean? Because that one is full of angry Azeris. Plus the clusterfuck of late USSR did help too.
>Also Iran and Georgia aren't Armenia's enemies, are they?
Iran has a huge Azerbaijani minority so...
Georgia isn't but it's also not a friend of Russia, even with current supposedly pro-Russian Ivanishvili government, so it can't do much here.
