Pay Attention, Class

Ladies and gentlemen, this article is worth paying copious attention to.

Azerbaijan is using revenue from record-high oil prices to fund a massive increase in military spending, President Ilham Aliyev said Saturday, warning that the army would be prepared to reconquer the ethnic-Armenian separatist region of Nagorno Karabakh.

Read the entire article. This is just the kind of low level conflict and development that can have massive implications for the former Soviet republics and the Middle East in general.