The downfall of Armenia's heinous tactic: Game over! No more Spayka corpse carriers on Azerbaijani land

Last week turned out to be full of resonant events again. First, Yerevan's unexpected decision to send several hundred tonnes of foodstuffs for the inhabitants of Azerbaijani Karabakh in two dozen vans of the "Spayka" transportation company was amusing. At the same time, the senders did not even notify the Azerbaijani authorities of their intention to cross the state border. That is, in their minds, the region where the cargo was scheduled to arrive had "nothing" to do with Azerbaijan. Therefore, getting bothered with unnecessary troubles is needless.

Well, they didn't find it necessary to inform us, so let it be. After all, we cannot coddle each of them and teach them the rules of behaviour.

The "humanitarian convoy" arrived at the border and faced an unexpected (but predictable for us) "oops": it turns out that the border here is not Russian. It is Azerbaijani. And, as it turns out, you need a permit to enter. And why would Baku give permission to import "humanitarian aid" when the government has not declared a humanitarian disaster on its territory and has not appealed to the world for help?

And then the usual Armenian wailing began, backed up by tweets and statements from different countries, including the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell and the heads of the foreign affairs agencies of the EU member states, not counting all kinds of public (and not so) people who are financially supported by the Armenian diaspora. It is clear that the calculation was made on the pressure. Perhaps Baku will give up and give in.

It didn’t concede. And don't count on it from now on — pressure on us is useless, especially when the Game is Over. Meaningless!

And now there is quite a comic situation. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are talking on the phone, and Washington notes the possibility of using an "alternative" (and for us — the primary, main) road from Aghdam to Khankandi. The Azerbaijani media broadcast this news, and the Armenian media diligently cut out its "Aghdam" part from the message. It's as if the subject had never been raised at all.

Once again: Let them do whatever they want! Anyway, there is no return to the past and there will be no return to the past: the "Lachin corridor" ceases to exist. It is now replaced by a regular motorway. This is our land, and we can do what we want with it! In the meantime, let this road stay, as it is now used by patients in need of treatment (including those who are wanted, though in their case detained at the checkpoint) travelling to Armenia. The main transport link with Karabakh will again be the roads from Aghdam, Fuzuli, and Tartar. Karabakh is indivisible - both the upland part and the lowland part. It is a single whole.

It was a contradiction of geography itself to separate the highland part of Karabakh from the whole area and artificially connect it with what is now called Armenia. For centuries, the Turshsu Pass served as the natural border between Karabakh and Zangezur, and a more or less passable road between these two historical Azerbaijani regions appeared only in Soviet times. Before that, there was a narrow path through the pass, which was used for travelling by carts, while the real road went down to Aghdam and Barda. And even Anastas Mikoyan wrote in 1919 that Karabakh had never been linked to Armenia and was economically linked to Azerbaijan.

Therefore, geography determined history, which in turn determined politics. Karabakh has reunited again, and the main connecting things are the roads - Karabakh roads, without any invented "corridors", which never existed in history (not counting the Soviet period) and will not exist from now on, especially on the territory of Azerbaijan and contrary to the legislation of Azerbaijan. The freebies are over. Game Over!

Therefore, the scene at the entrance to the Lachin district has all chances to compete with "Great Stand on the Ugra River". They will stand for a while, then turn around (if they can on this narrow serpentine) and waddle back.

But the icing on the cake last week was how the ICRC cars with sick residents of Karabakh, heading to Armenia for treatment, passed by this convoy. So, the convoy itself cannot pass, but ICRC vehicles pass by it. The sick are being brought in. Not all of them, of course, but with some "personnel losses" that occurred at the checkpoint. The very "losses" that will be "discovered" again very soon. This time in Baku, in the courtroom! Where they will fully answer for their past deeds and sins. Some people failed the obstacle race.

So, friends, we do not get tired of repeating: the game is really over! Irrevocably.