Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Why does Nagorno-Karabakh matter to Armenia and Azerbaijan?" video.

Would not surprise me. One of the stipulations for membership is not having ongoing territorial disputes. That is what put the Georgian admission on indefinite suspension after the 2008 invasion.
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@thedstorm8922 Not at the time they were admitted. The dispute is a recent development encouraged by Erdogan and the Turkish Nationalists looking to deflect attention from the failing domestic policies.
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@ArsenAl-zorK Armenia already had clearly defined borders. Why did they need to go into Azerbaijani territory? The "ancestral homeland" doesn't hold water when there is already a sovereign Armenia state. Yours is the ridiculous take.
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A lot of the strife can be directed at Joseph Stalin who PURPOSLY put Azeri SSR and Armenian SSR territory within the other's area. Naxçıvan in particular was his doing.
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Nice apples to oranges false analogy.
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The Azeris are mostly Muslim. The Armenian genocide was perpetrated by the Young Turks who were Islamo-nationalists. Hence the deeps distrust.
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Don't forget Stalin's hand in the situation. The exclave of Naxçıvan was specifically his creation.
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Considering that the two countries having enclaves and exclaves in each other's territory is a direct result of Stalin, it is fair to say that the Russians do hold some of the blame. And while Stalin was ethnic Georgian, he was the head of the Russian dominated Soviet Empire.
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Apples to oranges false equivocation. Nice try.
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