The seven-month Russian-Turkish confrontation will seem like small potatoes as compared to what is expected, ex-foreign minister of the NKR, independent analyst Arman Melikyan has told ArmInfo.
"Over the past 7 months of Russian-Turkish confrontation, its participants applied only part of their political, military, economic and psychological arsenal, and suffered certain losses. In fact, however, the worst is ahead, because the temporary calm in the confrontation is necessary for the sides to re-deploy their forces. I think the ongoing external processes will only aggravate the discrepancies between Moscow and Ankara," the analyst says.
Melikyan thinks the Brexit is the pledge of creation of a new political reality. He points out that the pause in the Russian-Turkish confrontation is determined by the Brexit results. He thinks Moscow wanted to demonstrate to Brussels the ability to compensate for the upcoming absence of Great Britain.
The analyst believes that the EU will face a serious internal crisis without Great Britain. This will disperse Moscow's hope to create a Moscow-Berlin-Paris geopolitical axis and this, in turn, can become a factor of a more serious confrontation between Ankara and Moscow.