Strelkov: Military success in Karabakh will spur Turkey’s appetite for Crimea
The success of the military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh will spur Turkey’s appetite for Crimea, and Ankara expects to use Ukraine in its interests.
Former Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov stated this on the YouTube channel “Russian Interest”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the former militia leader, the strategy of the Armenian command was a complete failure.
“Now the Turks must definitely take Shusha, because supplying this infantry group that has broken through, firstly, is difficult, and secondly, if they don’t establish communications there before the snows, then everything will become questionable. But I think they will resolve this issue; they still have a couple of weeks of warm weather.
And the Northern Road is under their fire control. From the very beginning, it took place in the north under the border, it comes from artillery directly from Azerbaijani territory and, naturally, is patrolled by drones, and everything that moves there is shot. That is, we can actually talk about the operational environment,” Strelkov said.
Nevertheless, according to him, the Armenians have chances, but so far they are only demonstrating a retreat to the east.
“I really like to watch Semyon Pegov’s reports, he is always “being destroyed surrounded by the DRG,” day after day it is getting closer to Shusha, already on the outskirts of Shusha he was “surrounding” and “destroying the DRG.” I understand that otherwise the Armenians will not let him go anywhere unless he tells Armenian fairy tales about how everything is fine, “all that’s left is to surround him a little and destroy him.”
In fact, we are talking about the fact that the Armenians are retreating east to Shusha, and the road has been cut and, apparently, will not be unblocked. All. On the verge of complete defeat. If they fail to unblock the road within the next few days, then most likely they will lose everything,” the ex-commander predicted.
He emphasized that the Armenians greatly overestimated their strength, which was due to the laurels of twenty-five years ago.
“There must be a strategic plan. The Armenian strategic plan was to defend everything. That is, they extended their positions along the entire border of Karabakh and seven regions, and were going to defend toughly. They built good fortified areas, but for some reason they were not at all designed for enemy air supremacy. Maybe they expected that Azerbaijan alone would fight against them. But as a result, all their tanks, guns, infantry fighting vehicles, almost all weapons were open, shoot from the air - I don’t want to. Yes, there were good trenches, minefields, but from the air there was not even camouflage. This is in the early days, now they are trying to do something, but it’s too late,” added Strelkov.
In addition, he expressed the opinion that even if the Armenian plans had come true, it would have been irrational to stretch out along the entire front.
“They hoped that they could again defeat these Azerbaijanis who did not know how to fight and not let them into the occupied territory (of course, they learned how to fight - the Turkish General Staff is in command and planned all the operations). But it turned out like in 1939 in Poland, where the Polish army also stretched out, intending to defend everything from the Danzig corridor to the Carpathians. Were you counting on the British? So here they (Armenians – ed.) may have hoped that they had the CSTO with the Russian Federation,” Strelkov explained.
Moreover, according to him, the geopolitics of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in its perspective goes far beyond the Transcaucasus and is shaping into a direct threat to Russia.
“This is not only an Azerbaijani-Armenian war, this is a war between Turkey and Azerbaijan, the Turkish coalition, against Armenia. And objectively, Turkey is entering Transcaucasia and it will not leave there. And having won in Transcaucasia (and without the intervention of the Russian Federation they will definitely win), after that the Turks will set the next tasks, but they actually no longer hide them.
If earlier members of parliament from Erdogan’s party said that Crimea was Turkish (and Donetsk and Lugansk are considered Ukraine), now the vice president is talking about this, and Erdogan has already mentioned the unfair treaties under which Russia took Crimea from Turkey.
At the same time, a framework agreement has already been concluded on the production of Turkish attack drones in Ukraine. Because the Turks love Ukraine so much? No! It’s just that some of the components for these “Bayraktar” are supplied from Canada, and Canada will never impose sanctions against Ukraine, because its own emigrant lobby is very strong.
And now - great, now Turkish “Bayraktar” will be assembled for Ukraine and for Turkey on the territory of Ukraine. And be used accordingly. In fact, we are already seeing an emerging military alliance between Ukraine (with which we will still have to fight, of course) and Turkey. This brings a serious emphasis to all the events that we are now seeing in Karabakh,” concluded Igor Strelkov.
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