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However much Yerevan wants to reorient its foreign policy westward, the practical realities of appeasing Moscow won’t be easily overcome.

Weeks after the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region formally part of Azerbaijan, was emptied of its remaining 120,000 residents, Armenia is following Azerbaijan's military build-up along its southern border with growing concern. After the crushing defeat it suffered in the 44-day war of 2020, Armenia fears it may now face an existential struggle with its long-time enemy.

Putin, faced with a badly faltering ‘special military operation,' was badly in need of a major distraction for two primary reasons, write analysts Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth.

ON the day Azerbaijan’s military sliced through the defences of an ethnic Armenian redoubt on Sept 19, American soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division had just finished a training mission in nearby Armenia, a long-time ally of Russia that has been trying to reduce its nearly total dependence on Moscow for its security.

While it may want to reduce its reliance on Russia, the West offers no plausible alternative