Barack Obama took the path of ex-President Bush Jr. and proposes candidacies of “used up” diplomats

PanARMENIAN.Net - Generally, it should be noted that as long as Washington puts oil at the top of her interests, she can never conduct diplomacy in the direct sense of this word. What is interesting is that this policy has already lasted for 30-40 years, without visible progress. The U.S. has begun to face the oil “problem” since the 70-ies of the previous year, when the first energy crisis broke out, continuing up to this day with varied success. By and large, the attack on Iraq was not motivated by the desire to establish democracy and protect the region from weapons of mass destruction which Saddam Hussein did not have. It was based solely on the desire to control the oil-rich Iraq. And the operations of “liberation” of Kuwait in no way contributed to the establishment of democracy, because in the Middle East, the concept of “American democracy” means the total collapse of the country and destruction of all spheres, except for oil production, no matter how regrettable it is. The same can be said about the irrepressible desire of the U.S. to subjugate Iran. With regard to Azerbaijan, everything seems fine: Ilham Aliyev is only interested in petrodollars, and for these multibillion-dollar revenues he is ready for anything. Even if Bryza shares the fate of Richard Hoagland and Obama has to look for a replacement, nothing will change in the foreign policy of the White House administration.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan is up and doing, and diligently builds up military power. It is reported that last year “Rosoboronexport” signed a contract with the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry on the supply of two battalions of S-300 PMU-2 Favorit (air defense systems). The contract is expected to be fulfilled within a year or two. Cost of the Contract is at least $300 million. Azerbaijan also buys weapons from Ukraine, Belarus, Israel and South Africa: MiG-29 aircraft and armored vehicles, antitank missiles Spike, drones and other weapons, upgraded attack helicopters Mi-24, etc.

Let us also recall that outside the post-Soviet area, Russia has also delivered S-300 air defense systems to Algeria and China. Moscow also signed a contract on supplying S-300 systems to Iran, but the contract's implementation has been frozen since April 2009. In June 2010 the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Iran, and Russia viewed them as a ban of S-300 supply to this country.

Against this background the candidacy of Matthew Bryza causes alarm. Possibly it is part of the U.S. aid provided to Baku. Freezing Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act, which prohibits direct aid, Washington nonetheless finds “workarounds” for delivering technical equipment and technologies to Azerbaijan in case of war. The common phrase that nobody will benefit from a new war in the region is beneath any criticism. Only the U.S. and Russia are in need of this war, which gives them the chance to deliver military equipment to the region, already stuffed with the most modern weapons that will necessarily fire one day. And we’d better not even imagine what will remain in this case from the entire South Caucasus.

We once wrote that the powers need only the territory without the population and it is exactly what they are trying to realize, not without the help of “diplomats” like Bryza. And let no one be surprised or even pleased that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry refused to meet with the candidate for the U.S. Ambassador to Baku. There is a time for things. Simply before the elections the Democrats do not want to risk the votes of the Armenian community and, therefore, are cautious in their likings.