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Originally Posted by Itse
Additionally, when people are talking (mostly jokingly) about the West or China taking advantage of Russia's current military weakness, I think there's a good chance other powers might try to use the opportunity to move Russia's southern neighbours from Russia's sphere of influence into their own.
That after all is the typical way of superpowers, proxy wars and wars of influence instead of direct ones.
As I'm sure everyone knows, the typical way to do that is to pick a side in an already existing local conflict and give them a little push financially and/or in weapons deliveries.
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This one's a bit more complicated for the West. Basically by every measure, Armenia aligns far more with Western ideals than Azerbaijan; it's a democratic country, has press freedom, and a relatively good human rights record. Meanwhile Azerbaijan is essentially a dictatorship and a kleptocracy, is guilty of significant human rights abuses, and has little to no press freedom.
But Azerbaijan supplies the EU with energy, so that all kind of goes out the window:
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