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Tribalism, Nationalism and War: Hot Afternoons in Armenia's Frozen Zone
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Tribalism, Nationalism and War: Hot Afternoons in Armenia's Frozen Zone

The genocidal bloodletting was exactly what America’s cynical imperial planners had long wanted and actively pushed for: the partitioning of the Soviet Union along purely ethno-nationalist lines.

Yasha Levine
Jul 18, 2020
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With Armenia and Azerbaijan actively shelling each other again (and Azerbaijan threatening to hit Armenia’s nuclear power plant) over Nagorno-Karabakh, a contested region in the mountains close to their borders with Iran, I figured I’d repost a dispatch I filed from there 14 years ago. This was back when I just was starting out as a journalist — and was…

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