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Trump makes good on MAJOR campaign promise, brokering a 'historic peace'
President Donald Trump vowed ahead of the 2024 election, "I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan."
The president's promise of peace seemed an unlikely goal. After all, others before him had tried and failed to bring an end to the bitter conflict between the two nations over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in the Caucasus Mountains that was alternatively known until recently as the Republic of Artsakh.
A former Obama Pentagon official ... suggested in a December op-ed that Trump 'will have earned the right to a Nobel Peace Prize' if he ends the conflict between these two nations.
That region became autonomous in 1923 while Armenia, the world's oldest Christian country, and Azerbaijan, whose population is 97.3% Muslim, were both still members of the former Soviet Union.
Despite two bloody wars fought over the territory — the first in 1988 and the second in 2020 — Nagorno-Karabakh remained home to over 100,000 Armenian Christians, ever defiant of Azerbaijan's territorial claims.
However, in September 2023, Azerbaijan launched a blitzkrieg on Nagorno-Karabakh with the help of Israeli and Turkish weaponry, killing hundreds of people, destroying churches, and forcing the Christian population to flee, in many cases on foot.
Trump noted on Thursday — months after a White House special envoy's visit to the Azerbaijani capital, which boosted binational talk of a draft peace agreement — that he would host President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia for "a Historic Peace Summit."
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"These two Nations have been at War for many years, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Many Leaders have tried to end the War, with no success, until now, thanks to 'TRUMP,'" the president wrote on Truth Social. "My Administration has been engaged with both sides for quite some time. Tomorrow, President Aliyev AND Prime Minister Pashinyan will join me at the White House for an official Peace Signing Ceremony."
Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama Pentagon official who now serves as executive director of the McCain Institute, suggested in a December op-ed that Trump "will have earned the right to a Nobel Peace Prize" if he ends the conflict between these two nations.
'The two neighbors have been in conflict for decades — over 35 years — with countless lives lost and generations scarred.'
Farkas suggested further that Trump was well-positioned to close the deal, writing, "Trump can leverage his prior business relationships and credibility in Baku and Aliyev’s desire to curry his favor to get U.S. economic investments and access and to restart U.S. military assistance."
In addition to overseeing the signing of a peace accord, Trump — who has also brokered peaceful resolutions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia and Thailand, and India and Pakistan — indicated on Thursday that he would sign bilateral agreements with both countries "to pursue economic opportunities together, so we can fully unlock the potential of the South Caucasus Region."
On a call with reporters on Friday, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly stated, "The two neighbors have been in conflict for decades — over 35 years — with countless lives lost and generations scarred. While many have tried, including Joe Biden, only President Trump, the peacemaker in chief, was able to successfully bring Armenia and Azerbaijan together to agree to a historic peace."
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A senior administration official noted on the call that a top Armenian official expressed disbelief after walking out of the negotiating room yesterday.
"He said, 'I can't believe tomorrow is going to happen — not for my sake, but my grandkids will be the first kids to grow up in this area who won't have to fight their grandfather's war.'"
Armenia has apparently agreed to permit a 27-mile corridor through its territory — the so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity — linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave on the Turkish border, thereby enabling persons and goods to transit between Turkey and Azerbaijan without having to pass through neighboring Iran or Russia.
'Tomorrow is the handshake in writing the check.'
Armenia also agreed to grant the U.S. exclusive special development rights for 99 years along this route, which is known as the Zangezur Corridor.
To sweeten the deal for Azerbaijan, the U.S. will lift restrictions on defense cooperation with the Islamic country by waiving a section of a 1992 law that prohibits assistance and other benefits to Baku "until the President reports to the Congress that such government is taking steps to cease all blockades and uses of force against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh."
"By locking in this path to peace, we are unlocking the great potential of the South Caucasus region in trade, transit, and energy flows," Kelly said.
Another official on the call indicated that this joint declaration is the first-ever bilateral declaration signed by Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The official noted, "Tomorrow is the handshake in writing the check, and we still have to ink the contract and cash the check."
While a "historic peace" between Azerbaijan and Armenia is imminent, not all are pleased with the terms of the deal.
Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, blasted the deal, suggesting that Trump was retroactively sanctioning genocide.
"The same Donald Trump who failed to stop Azerbaijan's 2020 attack on Nagorno Karabakh is now rewarding this very aggression — further compromising Armenia's security and sovereignty and, in the process, abetting Azerbaijan's normalization and formalization of its ethnic cleansing, its genocide, of more than 150,000 indigenous Armenian Christians," Hamparian said.
The ANCA complained further that there appears to be no provisions in the deal for the return of forcibly displaced Armenians to Artsakh or a "meaningful rollback" of the Azerbaijani military presence inside Armenian territory.
"Real peace cannot be built on the forced displacement of a people, the abandonment of hostages, or the rollback of sovereignty," Hamparian continued. "You can't declare peace while ignoring the ethnic cleansing of 150,000 Armenians and the illegal imprisonment of their democratically elected leaders. That's not peace — it's impunity, an invitation to renewed aggression."
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Azerbaijan’s government has some troubling practices, and the world should pay attention. Whether you believe in a climate emergency or not — and especially if you do — the shenanigans at the ongoing COP29 climate conference in this authoritarian Caucasus nation should raise alarms.
Recent U.N. climate conferences, including COP28 in the United Arab Emirates and COP29 in Azerbaijan, reveal a troubling trend: Global environmental activists seem unbothered by the severe wealth inequality their policies exacerbate. These activists actively collaborate with state oil tycoons to secure their own gains, often at the expense of ordinary people.
Climate alarmism remains a luxury belief held predominantly by wealthy elites, not ordinary people.
The authoritarian regimes of the UAE and Azerbaijan epitomize this disparity. In Azerbaijan, the average GDP per person is about 18 times higher than the median income. In contrast, this ratio in Western nations typically ranges between four and five. These glaring inequalities underscore the cozy relationship between government elites and global environmental activists.
Climate activists and state oil moguls actively disregard free markets and consumer preferences. Environmentalists routinely condemn consumer choices they deem “wasteful” or “unsustainable” and push policies that force compliance rather than encourage voluntary participation. Likewise, state oil companies reject competition at home and collude internationally to manipulate oil production when it increases their profits.
Both groups enrich themselves at others’ expense. Taxpayers, not attendees, fund COP29. National delegations draw from public budgets, while global NGOs like the United Nations and World Bank use funds from member nations to support the conference.
Oil barons in the UAE and Azerbaijan exploit natural resources for personal gain. Officials use state power to secure private wealth while denying citizens their rights. These oil-rich nations exemplify extractive institutions, where elites monopolize resources and leave the public to bear the cost.
The environmental agenda seeks to do the same — transferring hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers to narrowly owned wind, solar, and other green projects. Rather than serving customers and receiving voluntary payment, both environmentalists and government oil barons would rather extract resources from people by force.
COP29 participants explicitly demand that wealthy nations’ taxpayers “pay up” through climate reparations. These funds will likely enrich corrupt officials instead of benefiting the poor and vulnerable who are supposed to receive them. Decades of foreign aid being diverted into government officials’ pockets provide ample reason to reject this policy.
The irony of hosting the U.N. climate change conference in oil-producing countries runs deep. Participants create massive carbon footprints through air travel, food and goods consumption, and electricity use. Their activities rely on the very oil production they criticize, in countries they now place at the forefront of climate planning.
Climate alarmism remains a luxury belief held predominantly by wealthy elites, not ordinary people. These elites can more easily handle the higher costs created by environmental restrictions, unlike the poor and middle class. Moreover, elites are more likely to profit from net-zero policies, which subsidize solar panels, electric vehicles, and billion-dollar carbon offset and green energy schemes.
It’s time to end the self-serving theatrics of U.N. climate conferences pretending to save the planet. Expanding fossil fuel exploration and development in the United States offers a far better path. Cheap energy means greater freedom and prosperity for all.
Why a vote for Trump is good for Armenia — and the future of the West
After years of liberal lockstep, Armenian-Americans seem to be breaking for Donald Trump. This is good news, not just for ethnic Armenians but for all Americans. Let me explain.
The first big break with the status quo came from Armenian Weekly columnist Armen Morian, who recently urged his readership to vote for Trump.
But just take a look at a map, and the significance of Armenia’s role as it relates to Western hegemony becomes clear.
Traditionally, Democrat candidates have pushed for Armenian causes, such as recognition of Armenian genocide. This has generally been enough for Armenians, like many other minority American groups, to nod their heads and go along with the empty promises of the liberal platform.
Establishment stooges
Morian acknowledges this habit as he makes a solidly persuasive case for why Armenian-Americans should vote for Trump. The Biden administration is simply the latest iteration of the fundamentally anti-human “Establishment” ideology:
For decades the official ideology of the Establishment has been a globalist one that disdains the cultures, traditions and interests of individual nations, beginning with those of the nation they profess to serve: America. They regard men and nations as interchangeable pawns to be played, regardless, and often in spite of, their unique cultures, histories and traditions, which they see not as determinants of policy but obstacles to be overcome on the path toward advancing their ideology.
For Morian, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government is but an extension of this liberal establishment, with Pashinyan and his cronies doing the globalist work of trying to normalize relations between the republic and Turkey, harassing the Armenian Apostolic Church, and sowing division between Armenians of the mainland and of the diaspora, among other things.
Donald Trump himself seemed to vindicate Morian's claims a few days later, when he made a post on Truth Social blaming Kamala Harris and the rest of the Biden administration for doing nothing as Islamic Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed 120,000 Armenians from their historic homeland in Artsakh, which was, up until 2023, a disputed enclave within the boundaries of Azerbaijan.
I surmise that advisers like Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have had something to do with raising his awareness of the crisis in that part of the world.
As an ethnic Armenian myself, these developments are all fine and dandy. If the Armenian-American community can wake up from its liberal slumber and manage to find its conservative spine, I can call that progress.
Why you should care
But why should you care? Why should you care about the political goings-on of the Republic of Armenia and about the Armenians in general? After all, Armenians make up a tiny minority in America. Their vote most likely won’t make a dent in the election.
Likewise, the Western perception of Armenia and Armenians is barely existent, if it even exists at all. What does this tiny nation located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East have to do with you?
Well, allow me to appeal to your sense of geopolitics. On the surface, Armenia comes off as a backwater post-Soviet country tucked away from the rest of Europe under the Caucasus mountain range. It doesn’t contribute much in terms of GDP, as its 1991 statehood came with significant disadvantages: It's completely landlocked on all sides and neighbored by two bloodthirsty enemies — Turkey and Azerbaijan.
But just take a look at a map, and the significance of Armenia’s role as it relates to Western hegemony becomes clear.
Armenia is the lone obstacle standing in the way of Turkey’s pursuit of establishing a pan-Turanic land and sea bridge that would span Europe and Asia. Contrary to public perception, the bonds these nations share are less based on Islam than they are on ethnicity.
The pan-Turanic menace
The nations highlighted in the graphic are all demographically composed of ethnically Turkic peoples. And if they were to establish that pan-Turanic land and sea bridge, you can bet your bottom dollar they would throw the power of that newfound Turanic empire around.
Some scenarios you can expect with the rise of the pan-Turanic empire:
- Turkey abuses its position in NATO even more, extracting any and all demands it may have due to its new status as a trading world power.
- The European states stand to pay even more for the oil they get from Azerbaijan, risking a position of total indentured dependence.
- Even more immigrants from Central Asia flood Europe.
- The U.S. is forced to comply with Turkish demands, norms, and cultural exports, so as not to lose out on major trade routes and markets.
- The eventual Islamified Turkification of all icons, symbols, and cultural artifacts the West holds dear and sacred.
And if you think this isn’t coming down the pipeline, just look at both Greece and Armenia as your prime examples of what happens when Turks become the power brokers.
The Hagia Sophia is no longer a church. Every major Armenian church and historical site has either been destroyed or retroactively cast as an ancient Turkish site. The ruthless predation of the Turkic world has remained only regional for Christians up until now, but it can very easily become international, very soon.
What stands in the way is Armenia. That’s it.
Very stable genius
That is why the Azeris just cleaned out 120,000 Armenians from their ancestral homeland with military force. It’s why the traitorous, globalist Armenian government is pushing to “normalize” relations between itself and Turkey and Azerbaijan. And yes, it’s even why Iran considers Armenia’s territorial integrity a “red line” that it would not tolerate Azerbaijan breaching.
It’s also why I want you, the reader, to be aware of this pressing issue.
If Donald Trump becomes president, especially with advisers like Vivek Ramaswamy and RFK Jr. on his team, there will be a real opportunity to ward off this threat.
What I’m pushing for is not more taxpayer-funded aid to yet another region of the world. Instead, I'd like us to siphon the power, influence, and money away from antagonists like Turkey and Azerbaijan, whom we help out a lot.
The Middle East can be very stable, if we want it to be. That it happens to be occupied and governed by non-Christians is an anomaly — for much of history, Christians were in charge. A restoration of a Christian Middle East must be on the table as an agenda item for the next administration.
Trump signals new foreign policy priority: Combat the persecution of Christians
The Biden-Harris administration has prioritized the advancement of the LGBT agenda and climate alarmism in its foreign policy. President Donald Trump has identified a different priority for his future administration: Combat the brutal persecution of Christians around the globe.
Trump noted Wednesday on Truth Social, "Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh. Christians around the World will not be safe if Kamala Harris is President of the United States."
"When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan," added Trump.
The Republic of Artsakh, which is also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is a region in the Caucasus Mountains that lies within Azerbaijan's borders.
While internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan — whose close ally Turkey, formerly the Ottoman Empire, killed 1.5 million Armenians in what is regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century — the region was, at least up until September 2023, home to over 100,000 Armenian Christians who contested Azerbaijan's territorial claims.
The region became autonomous in 1923 while Armenia, the world's oldest Christian country, and Azerbaijan, whose population is 97.3% Muslim, were both still members of the former Soviet Union.
Two bloody wars were fought over the area in the last 30 years — the first in 1988 and the second in 2020.
Azerbaijan — given military assistance by the Biden-Harris administration despite its war crimes and torture of Armenian prisoners — launched a blitzkrieg on the region on Sept. 19, 2023, and saw to the dissolution of the Armenian enclave by Jan. 1.
Azerbaijani forces killed hundreds of ethnic Armenians and added insult to injury by destroying churches and cemeteries. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians were forced to flee.
'Vice President Harris — whose Administration armed Azerbaijan's genocidal blockade and attack on Artsakh — did not lift a finger or even raise her voice against Azerbaijan’s 2023 aggression.'
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been engaged in peace talks in the months since.
While there has been some grumbling in recent years from the State Department — an official claimed in a September 2023 Senate hearing that the U.S. would not "countenance any action or effort, short-term or long-term, to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh" — the Biden-Harris administration was less than helpful where Armenian Christians were concerned.
The Armenian National Committee of America blasted the Democratic administration in July over its "two-faced policy."
The ANCA said in a statement:
There is no clearer example of the Biden-Harris administration’s two-faced policy towards Armenia than the spineless inaction of USAID Administrator Samantha Power during Azerbaijan’s blockade and ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh. As Azerbaijan deprived Artsakh’s 120,000 Armenians of access to food, fuel, medicine, and humanitarian goods in a brazen violation of international law — Administrator Power refused to acknowledge the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding. The genocidal ethnic cleansing of Artsakh’s entire Armenian population was a humanitarian catastrophe the United States had every opportunity to prevent but instead chose to enable — sacrificing the existence of the region’s indigenous Christian Armenian population for misguided geopolitical interests.
The ANCA noted further that the administration's inaction "will weigh heavily on the minds of Armenian American voters this November — including those in the key swing states of Nevada and Michigan as well as in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
As of 2021, there were more than 2 million Americans with Armenian heritage.
In late September, Harris signaled support for Armenian Christians' return to Artsakh.
ANCA executive director Aram Hamparian said in response, "As Vice President, Kamala Harris has had a full year to act on Artsakh's right to return — via a U.S.-led resolution at the U.N. Security Council — yet she has only started talking (to Armenian Americans, not U.N. member states) about this right 40 days before an election in which Armenian voters across key swing states may prove decisive."
"Notably, Vice President Harris — whose Administration armed Azerbaijan's genocidal blockade and attack on Artsakh — did not lift a finger or even raise her voice against Azerbaijan's 2023 aggression. Even at the level of campaign rhetoric, she has not said a word about cutting U.S. military arms and aid to Azerbaijan, or otherwise holding Baku accountable for its crimes," added Hamparian.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) echoed Trump Wednesday, writing, "The United States should fight against the persecution of Christians all over the world, and it will when President Trump is back in the White House. Kamala Harris has done nothing."
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote, "Very gratified to see President Trump speak out about the persecution & displacement of Armenian Christians in Artsakh. It’s our job to call out the hypocrisy of the foreign policy establishment & we refuse to simply sweep this issue under the rug."
Artsakh is hardly the only place where brutal regimes and radicals have sought to crush Christians and their faith.
According to the persecution watchdog Open Doors, 317 million Christians around the world face very high or extreme levels of persecution. Last year, 4,998 Christians were reportedly slaughtered for faith-related reasons; 14,766 churches and Christian properties were attacked; and over 295,000 Christians were displaced.
The top 10 worst countries for Christians in terms of persecution were, in this order: North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Supposedly developed nations farther up the list aren't a great deal better. China, for instance, subjects Christians to routine torture, detentions, and executions.
Persecution and attacks have also been on the rise in Western nations, including the U.S., Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
Arielle Del Turco, director of the Family Research Council's Center for Religious Liberty, indicated in a report earlier this year that between 2018 and 2023, there were nearly 1,000 acts of hostility against American churches.
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There's ANOTHER genocide in the Middle East that you probably didn't know about
While the horrors committed by Hamas in Israel are tragic, there’s yet another genocide occuring under our noses.
In Azerbaijan, there’s a liquidation going on of the Armenian people. They happen to make up the first Christian nation on earth.
“It’s just getting precious little play, and more people need to know about it,” Samuel Brownback, former international religious freedom ambassador at large, tells Glenn Beck of what’s happening.
Brownback explains that Turkey is the "puppetmaster" in this situation, “pushing, and allowing, and giving military armament to Azerbaijan,” while “the Biden administration is looking another way.”
According to Brownback, Azerbaijan has wanted Armenia and its Christian enclaves “out of there,” as it’s a “bone in their throat.”
The Armenians trapped in Azerbaijan have been starved and cut off from resources. About 100,000 have escaped, but Brownback says there are probably 20,000 still there.
“This is yet another ancient Christian population being driven out of this Middle East ... extended region,” he explains. "What will happen, they’ll go to Armenia, they’ll be absorbed into Europe, into the United States, Australia, Canada, but it’ll be another one gone.”
Brownback believes that what’s happening in Azerbaijan is very similar to what’s happening between Israel and Palestine.
“Armenia is to Christendom what Israel is to Judaism. It’s kind of the first, and now Israel is the only Jewish nation, and Armenia is the first, and you’ve got Muslim population surrounding both, trying to kick them out,” Brownback tells Glenn.
Brownback describes how what’s happening is due to the “axis of evil” between Iran, Russia, and China.
“They’re out to take over the world, and they’ve been losing ground, but now they’re out there pushing to gain back ground. So Russia goes after Ukraine, Iran is behind Hamas and Hezbollah and pushing on Israel,” he explains.
Turkey, which has wanted to do this for a thousand years, is choosing to do this now because “we have an administration in Washington that won’t fight back.”
Glenn is outraged.
“This is going to get much, much worse. These are Christians that just want to be left alone. They are the oldest Christian nation, and they are being liquidated,” he says.
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