Recommend an in-depth analysis by Simon Ostrovsky on the latest war in the Caucasus:

This latest war probably would not have happened if President Trump had not been such good friends with Turkey’s president Erdogan, and if Armenia had not miscalculated Russia's interests.

Eleven years ago, I visited Nagorno-Karabach together with the Danish journalist Martin Selsøe Sørensen. From that visit I remember the feeling of traveling to the end of the world, as we drove through the serpentine roads of the Lachin corridor, which runs through occupied Azeri territory from Armenia to Stepanakert. From Nagorno-Karabach I remember a multitude of old Armenian churches, rivers, mountains, plus Martin's search for a Chinese restaurant in a very remote town somewhere in the north. And how I struggled to get online on a lousy telephone line to file a news analysis for Svenska Dagbladet about the breaking news that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2009. This prize for peace appeared so far away from the reality in Karabach. (And more so today, obviously).

From Stepanakert we continued our journey to the little town of Shushi where Azeris had lived until the war in the early 90's. Remember a mosque in decay, and a meeting with destitute Armenian IDPs, a family who had moved into one of the apartments that used to be the homes of local Azeris before the war in 1993-1994. The mother in the family, an Armenian war widow, herself an internal refugee, did not think that peace with Azerbaijan would be possible.

Sadly, as things stand today, peace in that region seems very remote.

And if you read Swedish, and are interested, here is my story from Stepanakert in October 2009, published in Svenska Dagbladet.