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    AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA AND CHEKHOV'S GUN
    by Giorgi Lomsadze

    EurasiaNet
    Oct 14 2010
    NY

    Azerbaijan this week announced a 90-percent hike in defense spending,
    stoking fears that sooner or later all those guns are going to be
    put to use.

    The $3.1 billion in requested military spending is almost one billion
    larger than the entire national budget of Azerbaijan's cash-strapped
    arch-rival Armenia. Shaken by an economic crisis, Armenia may be
    hard-pressed to match oil-rich Azerbaijan's defense spending, but
    few doubt that Yerevan will try.

    "Gunpowder is an agency employed by civilized nations for the
    settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left
    unadjusted," American writer Ambrose Bierce wrote. Neither guns nor
    troublesome conflicts are in short supply in the South Caucasus, as
    the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia displayed. Baku said many
    times that if Armenia does not surrender the occupied Azerbaijani
    territories, Azerbaijan will take them by force. Does the increased
    military spending somehow fit into that option? So far, the answers
    are few.




    From: A. Papazian
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