Back in 2011, I wrote an article on the politics behind Azerbaijan's Eurovision Song Contest win, and how the competition was being used to showcase a fraudulent image of Azerbaijan as a westernised country full of liberty and tolerance etc., to use some Leftist buzzwords. In actual fact, the country is pretty-much a Muslim theocracy with a sham democracy directed and funded by Turkey and the European Union via its European Neighbourhood Policy, Eastern Partnership and Council of Europe, despite it being debatable whether Azerbaijan is actually geographically in Europe. The EU is largely interested in its oil and natural gas reserves, and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline and a pipeline called the Southern Gas Corridor run oil and gas respectively from near Baku in Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey and into the EU for the benefit of international fuel companies. This explains the blind eye turned by the EU to human rights abuses and attempted genocide against ethnic Armenians in both Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. It explains why the United Nations took Azerbaijan's side during the 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, also passing General Assembly Resolution 62/243 after skirmishes in 2008 that claimed Nagorno-Karabakh as sovereign Azerbaijani territory. It also explains why the Western mainstream cultural machine promotes Azerbaijani interests.
