The long-term damage resulting from Armenia's miscalculations outlined are plain to see. While part of the damage is physical, even more significant is the mental damage: Armenia’s feeling of military superiority is now broken, and its feeling of isolation palpable.
Russian peacekeeping is not the solution
The resumption of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan threatens a broader regional conflict that threatens Western interests. While America has paid growing attention to Central Asia, it has forgotten to do the same in the South Caucasus, the Western gateway to Central Asia.
Radical Islamic extremism established a presence in Central Asia in the late Soviet era.
The Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979 had important implications throughout the Islamic world, and Turkey has been no exception.