Axar.az presents the article "The “new axis of evil” isn't Azerbaijan-Pakistan-Turkey, but Armenia-Greece-India" by Andrew Korybko.

The influential Armenian Mirror-Spectator, the first English-language Armenian weekly published in the US since 1932, released a ridiculous op-ed last week alleging that Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Turkey comprise a so-called “new Axis of Evil”. Written by Edmond Y. Azadian and titled “Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan Form New Axis Of Evil”, the piece claims that the three are fundamentalist Islamic dictatorships hellbent on using terrorists to carve out a Neo-Ottoman Empire across Central and West Asia. Azadian also speculates that Pakistan will help Turkey create nuclear weapons and that the latter will aggressively compete with the Russian Navy in the Caspian Sea. The seriousness with which these political fantasies are described and their high-profile publication in such an influential Armenian media outlet as the Mirror-Spectator show how scared Armenians are of this emerging trilateral alliance, but they can't do anything to stop it other than spew fake news.

Suffice to say, all of Azadian's allegations are false, but there's nevertheless no denying that Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Turkey have become unprecedentedly closer as a result of Baku's glorious victory in last year's Patriotic War. This trilateral strategic convergence is due to their shared interests at the political and social levels, which in turn are driving new modes of cooperation between them in the economic sphere such as the revival of the Lapis Lazuli Corridor in Afghanistan and Turkmenistan in order to pioneer a broader Turkish-Pakistani trade corridor. None of the involved countries embraces fundamentalist Islam, is dictatorships, or employs terrorists, nor do they have any imperial intentions, but misportraying them in such a way is intended to fuel Islamophobic-driven opposition to them in the hopes of assembling an international coalition aimed at their “containment”.

Armenia is isolated like never before, but some efforts are presently underway in its academic and media circles to foster closer ties with Greece and India, Turkey and Pakistan's historical rivals respectively. Some in Armenia as well as their supporters abroad, especially in those two mentioned countries, believe that an Armenian-Greek-Indian coalition can rise in opposition to emerging Azerbaijan -Pakistani-Turkish one, which might sound plausible enough on paper but will be much more difficult to implement in reality. While the Neo-Realist School of International Relations preaches the inevitability of such interests-driven arrangements, truly lasting coalitions must have more in common than just a shared set of rivals. There should also be cultural and economic ties, both of which are greatly aided by geography and history, in order for such arrangements to transform into strategic forces that should be taken really seriously.

Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Turkey are united in all of these domains, with the only weak link being geography but that's presently being remedied by the progress made on reviving the Lapis Lazuli Corridor. Armenia, Greece, and India, meanwhile, don't share such commonalities. They're geographically divided from one another, have no shared cultural ties or history (except for Armenia and Greece's Christian heritage and anti-Turkish sentiment in their societies), and trade ties are extremely low. Military cooperation is also unlikely to flourish because Armenia is member of the Russian-led CSTO mutual defence bloc while Greece is part of its US-led NATO rival. India, meanwhile, is officially “non-aligned” even though it's clearly moved much closer to the US in a comprehensive sense over the past few years out of their shared desire to jointly “contain” China. Still, India also has historical military ties with Russia too, which could further complicate the strategic equation.

There's a difference between organically occurring coalitions formed around comprehensively shared interests such as the emerging one between Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Turkey and artificially assembled arrangements solely driven by a shared set of rivals like the proposed Armenian, Greek, and Indian one. The former has the solid foundation to be self-sustainable and become a force for promoting positive connectivity between kindred people and those geographically located between them while the latter is unstably built on sand and aims to aggressively destabilize its intended victims. As such, it's clear to see that the “new Axis of Evil” isn't Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Turkey like the Mirror-Spectator's Azadian ridiculously alleged, but Armenia, Greece, and India, though the latter are incapable of shaping events in any meaningful way and thus unable to do anything truly evil except maybe meddling in some of their targets' internal affairs to a limited extent.