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It's Monday, October 26th, 2020, from slated to the Gestai, Mike Pesca.

Nagorno Karabakh is a region almost entirely surrounded by Azerbaijan,

but it is almost entirely people with ethnic Armenians.

26 years ago, after the USSR disintegrated the area, was the site of a war,

in which tens of thousands were killed, hundreds of thousands were displaced.

The US didn't play a big part in that conflict, and it didn't get much attention,

except maybe in the US and ethnic Armenian communities, though pre-Cardashian,

Armenians weren't nearly as widely paid attention to. I am not kidding.

The conflict actually goes back, at least to the Ottoman Empire,

and is one of those remote, seemingly unsolvable situations in which there is no,

quote, unquote, good guy, though each side can certainly point to atrocities committed against them.

That said, the ceasefire that ended the war did create a situation where hundreds of thousands of Armenians are essentially stateless.

They live within Azerbaijan, but not as Azerbaijanis. They don't want to.

Adding to the complications are that the two great powers of the region,

Turkey and Russia, each have a side. The Turks backing their co-religionists,

the Azerbaijanis and Armenia, being supported by Russia.

There have been three ceasefires thus far in the latest iteration of the conflict,

which has included shelling in Azerbaijan's second biggest city, Gunga.

Yeah, I know. Death toll, at least in the hundreds,

high hundreds, possibly in the low thousands.

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