I'm sure Azeri diaspora has some influence. But it would also be dishonest to deny that it is totally dwarfed by the Armenian diaspora. The Armenian-American community is older, larger and more established. They produced celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Cher, and Andre Agassi. They made nearly all US states recognize the Armenian genocide, which has become a household name (whereas Khojali is, unfortunately, fairly unknown).
As I told you before, the number of states supporting our cause, is passing half of states very soon. About the so called Armenian genocide, it is not the case though, and only a limited number of cities have accepted it.
What matters is that we have abundant resources of money while Armenians and their diaspora are poor. If they have Kardashian, we can buy Tori Black(
) and lindsay lohan.
Also, you forgot the huge number(more than 100K) of South Azeris who live in USA, and are not considered in statistics as Azerbaijanis
But are active supporters of Azerbaijan in USA
Also, Turkish American society consisted of huge businessmen, ... are also supporters of Azerbaijan.
If these Armenian immigrants could have such huge influence, they would not let states to accept Khojali genocide one after another one
Every thing happens with a reason in this world
I don't believe this is true. The more Europe's energy security exacerbates, the more it will have to depend on US shale oil developments. It's one reason the US has applied such immense pressure for the EU to sanction Iran, even though it is so totally contrary to Europe's interests.
What it has to do with gas?
Are you saying Azerbaijan started the Chechenya insurgency, or is capable of starting another one? I find it hard to believe, because 1. They are Sunni, and you are Shia, 2. They are Caucasian, and you are Turkic. They only point of commonality is "Islam", but as your contempt for the "Ummah" has shown, that's not a very strong link at all.
You are totally wrong. I don't blame you since you are not a caucasian and our region is not famous in the world, but is one the most complicated regions of the world.
Armenians are not indigenous people of Caucasus, but are Eastern Anatolians. and are hated by caucasians(even by christian caucasians like georgians) because they are russian stooges, not indigenous, occupied caucasus lands, and betrayed caucasians in the past.
On the other hand, We are the Caucasians(almost half of Caucasus population are Azeraijanis
) Also, Remember the thousands of Chechens and Dagestanis who fought for Azerbaijan against Armenia. Also, in contrast to ME, we are not sectarian, and care more for our blood than religion. That's how we have hold a country consisted of 70/30 percentage of Shia/Sunnis united. A few number of Chechen, living in a valley located in Georgia(less than 10,000 person), are the only exception who are Naqshbandi sufis, and are religious. Even they love shia imams. They are famous for the leaders they provided in Syria, but this valley is an exception in Caucasus.
I'm inclined to believe that if there is any foreign hand capable of directing the Chechens, it would only be Saudi Arabia. Maybe ISIS too. But not you.
Saudis have no influence in Caucasus. We are not into ummah stuff like others, and to be honest, we look down on Arabs(I, personally do not favor looking down on any ethnicity). So, no caucasian would be influenced by an arab, nor consider them equal
But, read about Imam Shamil and such people who were favoring Azeri Qajar turks for decades. I, as a Qajar myslef, know it very well.
Anyway, for your final points:
1. I think in 2008, Russia was still holding out for a "reset" in relations with the US, and so didn't want to act too forcefully in Georgia. But that reset happened and amounted to nothing, and now Russia knows that the West will only settle for Russia's complete destruction, and won't pull back any punches anymore. Now if Georgia acts insolently, Russia will decisively carve out a land corridor from South Ossetia to Armenia and dismantle the BTC pipeline, Crimea-style.
Wrong. Russia had rights on crimea, as a consistent part of Russia until 1950s and as a region with overwhelmingly Russian population. Russia cannot do so in georgia, since the georgian capital is located at the middle of such route, and the region is purely georgian and Azeri, and no ossetian or Russian live in that route. Russia has no capability to do so, since EU, USA, Turkey(with more than 100 billions of dollars trade with russia in next coming years) would fiercely oppose it.
2. South Azerbaijan is not a contiguous territory and can't connect to Azerbaijan's Caspian ports unless transiting through hostile Iranian territory. Unless you want to airlift oil supplies now?
I said in long term. The situation of South Azerbaijan has gotten very heated, if you know the internal situation of that region.
