Azerbaijan's victory in the Second Karabakh War has become the main military-political event of this period because for many years the Karabakh conflict seemed insolvable, military expert, editor-in-chief of the Natsionalnaya Oborona magazine Igor Korotchenko told a round table at the Center for International Relations Analysis (AIR Center).
"Armenia did not develop or build anything for many years in Karabakh, whereas Azerbaijan developed the state, including its military forces. With this victory, Ilham Aliyev did what no one could, and wrote his name in history," Korotchenko said.
When Azerbaijan launched a counter-offensive operation on September 27 last year in response to Armenian provocations, it came as a shock to Armenia, he said.
“We saw how many Armenian deserters there were, and how the Azerbaijani youth tried to get to the front to liberate their lands.”
The Russian expert stressed that now the Karabakh conflict is a thing of the past.
"A new geopolitical reality has come and now the main destructive role is played not by Yerevan, but by the Armenian diaspora in the US, France and Russia," he said.