What is strange about the map of successive explosions is that they are located either in the former Soviet geography, or in the oil part of it. When we say oil, we no longer mean oil alone. Rather, it now includes liquefied gas, which appears here and there on an accelerated basis, and not even Lebanon is deprived of it this time, which will be known as an oil-producing state if it continues to be among the countries. It is difficult to give these conflicts only a sectarian character. The picture highlights Israel’s support for Azerbaijan and its hostility against the Armenians. Russia’s dispute with Armenia erupts after an old alliance. Türkiye and Iran come together in support of one opponent.
The world has become accustomed to dividing itself into groups instead of separate countries. Such as saying the Balkan countries, or the Baltic countries, or now the Caucasus countries, where conflicts have re-ignited as they were in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries. At the beginning of the last century, it was said that Azerbaijan gives the world half of the oil it consumes, and that Baku is a capital that lives on oil. At some point, workers in this field flocked to it, just as they flocked to the state of Texas in its oil heyday.
However, the sectarian element was not completely absent from the region’s contradictions. There is a novel entitled: “Ali and Nino” about the story of a Muslim young man and a Christian girl who fall in love like Romeo and Juliet, and all other peoples who expressed their emotional potential through tear-jerking romances.
However, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict contains more blood than tears. In the 1990s, thousands of people from both sides were killed in the battles for Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, we are witnessing 100,000 people leaving their homes and lives and being displaced within a few days, deported to their original, former, or past homeland. As in all major killings, the international community stands or sits helpless with anything but similar statements for decades. Like the Balkans. The Caucasus is still a flammable country, and the entire world is still a fragile pile of dry straw. The United Nations is still an organization that resembles “showcase” scribes, adept at writing entreaties and reminders of agreements and charters, while human maps redraw themselves on the canvas of the new world.
