'Winning Ukraine might be important, but it does not require throwing other democracies under the bus. If Washington truly wanted to advance Ukraine’s freedom, it might crack down upon Azerbaijani assistance to Russia sanctions evasion.' -mrubin1971
He berates American diplomats on state television while he buys others with lucrative post-retirement gigs. Even more than Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and China, he buys influence in Washington, and has his oil partner BP do likewise in London.Some of the influence is legal and above board, but in Washington, at least, most is under the table.
In September 2020, as campaign antics distracted Washington, Aliyev — backed by both Turkish Special Forces and F-16 pilots and Israeli drones and intelligence — launched a surprise attack on the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Yet, since the war, Aliyev has not only repeatedly promised to resolve through force what he failed to achieve diplomatically, but he has also threatened to drive his forces all the way to Armenia’s capital Yerevan. For the last five months, Azerbaijan has blockaded and sought to starve Nagorno-Karabakh into submission. In recent days, Azerbaijan has built border posts to block the Lachin Corridor, a blatant violation of the 2020 ceasefire that Aliyev signed.
The White House and State Department parries such concern in two ways. First, they argue winning in Ukraine might be the prime imperative. Second, they say the United States has never had a one-size fits all foreign policy.
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