redstate.com by streiff
Early Sunday morning, Azerbaijan time, an explosion tore through a crowded nightclub in the capital of Baku. There is no definitive count of casualties now, but the explosion could not have come at a worse time for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2020, former Soviet Republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia, fought a brutal, 44-day war over a disputed chunk of land with the Tolkien-esque name of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenians are a Russian client state. Azerbaijan has ties with Israel and is a member of the NATO farm club, the “Partnership for Peace” program. In the war, Armenia was soundly thumped, and Russia, attempting to show its relevance, acted as the intermediary for the cease-fire and has employed “peacekeepers” in the region…
