Nick Paton Walsh, CNN: Russia is the only country able to stop the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Will it step up and do so?
For a while it seemed like they were friends. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former KGB spy, had managed to slowly pry away one of NATO's most awkward members -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The pair seemed always on the phone, Turkey was kicked out of the US-led F-35 program for buying Russia's S-400 air defense missile system, and Ankara seemed suddenly closer to Moscow than the Brussels-based alliance.
But how that has changed.
After clashing in Syria, backing opposing sides in Libya, and generally finding the other an irritant in their respective bids to capitalize on America's regional withdrawal, Putin and Erdogan are no longer speed-dialing each other. In fact, with the ongoing and escalating fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Erdogan has left Putin in perhaps his most complicated spot in years.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 5, 2020
Explosive stakes on Armenia-Azerbaijan chessboard -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
Caucasus War Will Draw In Turkey and Russia -- James Stavridis, Japan Times/Bloomberg
A Clash with Turkey Is Becoming Inevitable -- Michael Rubin, National Interest
Can Arab States Damage Turkish Economy? -- Mustafa Sonmez, Al Monitor
How the UAE emerged as a regional powerhouse -- Frank Gardner, BBC
Turkey and Russia's deepening roles in Libya complicate peace efforts -- Patrick Wintour, The Guardian
Belarus’ push for democracy is another blow to Vladimir Putin -- New York Post editorial
China leads in race for digital currency -- Kristie Pladson, DW
China’s viral reaction to Trump’s Covid infection -- Frank Chen, Asia Times
Does China’s one-party system blind it to why it’s a US election issue? -- Jacob Fromer, SCMP
Nepal Warms to India, Cools to China -- Deepak Adhikari, Nikkei
Is it Macron — not Trump — who's breaking the NATO alliance? -- Sasha Toprich, The Hill
Will Trump’s case of COVID-19 endanger U.S. national security? -- Foreign Policy
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