War in the Caucasus
Both sides are losing. Putin's winning. Also, upcoming Three Seas blues, what I'm reading (and not reading)
The flareup in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (NBK) is the worst since 2016. As my friend Tom de Waal pointed out in this excellent thread, no side has a monopoly of justice and both Azeris and Armenians have historical claims to Karabakh.
Why is the fighting flaring? Chiefly because the authorities in Baku need to show to…