After the 1991-94 Artsakh war, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the then president of Armenia, liked to repeat that we won not the war, but the battle. According to him, we would have won the war if we, as the winning side, had managed to reach an agreement with Azerbaijan on a compromise option under favorable terms for Artsakh, or Azerbaijan was forced to sign its capitulation.

Since no compromise option was found, and Azerbaijan was categorically against the second option, especially since no conditions of coercion were proposed by the Armenian side, nothing was achieved as a result.
Perhaps, it might have been beneficial for us if the then government of Armenia had recognized the independence of Artsakh at least before signing the 1994 ceasefire agreement. This was not done either, and consequently, we had what we have today.

Now our goal is not to enter into a long-distance debate with Ter-Petrosyan, we are only recording the facts. The same situation might be repeated in Azerbaijan. they also won the battle, but they did not win the war. In order to achieve that goal they are trying to solve two very important problems for them. Artsakh should be recognized by Armenia as the territory of Azerbaijan and, secondly, the opening of the Syunik road or, in Azerbaijani terminology, the "Zangezur Corridor" on their own terms.

Their terms are comprehensible - they want the Azerbaijan-Nakhijevan-Turkey road to operate through the Syunik area without control, that is, to be considered an extraterritorial road. Most likely, they intend to take Syunik completely under their control in the next step. It is no coincidence that Aliyev presents the "Zangezur Corridor" as the most important goal of the implementation of the Turkic world project and claims that the Turkic countries will support him in this matter, including the "unrecognized" lobbyists of Azerbaijan operating within the CSTO.

In this sense, the warnings of Iran, which is also threatened by the project of the Turkic world, should be taken very seriously. And not only Iran is threatened by the project. The latter also threatens Russia's interests. However, Russia, at least for now, by allowing the 2020 war and accepting its results with its signature under the November 9 declaration, has essentially adapted to that project.

To any person with even little logic, it is already clear that the statements of the still incumbent Prime Minister of Armenia on his wish of opening an era of peace, are from the realm of a vivid imagination. Azerbaijan does not want to make the mistake made by the Armenian authorities in 1994, that is, after winning the battle, fail to turn it into a victory in the war.

Therefore, Azerbaijan will do everything possible to fulfill its two unfinished desired goals. In this regard, we must clearly understand that as long as Armenia is within the boundaries of today's political map, there will be no era of peace. Rather, it will be an era of creeping war.