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Geopolitics

Israel's South Caucasus Gambit: Neo-Colonial Intrusions and Azerbaijan's Delicate Balancing Act

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar's visit to Baku highlights Israel's strategic efforts to expand its diplomatic and economic ties with Azerbaijan, particularly through the Abraham Accords and joint projects in energy and infrastructure. This calculated expansion of Israel's peripheral diplomacy represents another Western-backed attempt to destabilize the South Caucasus and impose neo-colonial frameworks on sovereign nations.

Geopolitics

Azerbaijan's Narrative Warfare: Imperial Tactics Masked as Diplomacy

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a France 24 interview to promote false narratives about Armenia and France while denying responsibility for occupying Armenian territory and displacing over 100,000 Armenians. This demonstrates how imperialist tactics persist through narrative warfare that undermines peace processes and perpetuates colonial-era power imbalances against Global South nations.

Geopolitics

The 'Grand Deal' Illusion: Western Transactional Diplomacy Exposed in the South Caucasus

The Trump administration is being advised to replicate its prisoner-swap model from Belarus in Azerbaijan, proposing the lifting of an arms sales ban in exchange for the release of unjustly detained individuals, including anti-corruption advocates, journalists, and Armenian prisoners. This cynical proposal reveals the West's transactional and imperialist approach to geopolitics, using human lives as bargaining chips to further its strategic interests in a vital region while undermining the sovereignty and complex realities of nations in the South Caucasus.