"A Better Middle East"
"A Better Middle East," according to retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, would be Armenia getting Mt. Ararat and Georgia's Javakhk (Javakheti) Armenian region.
Peters' "Blood borders: How a better Middle East would look" article, published at Armed Forces Journal, provides a map of "better Middle East," that makes new countries in the region.
According to Peters, the new countries would be based on current ethnic populations. This doesn't answer the questions why, in that case, Armenia gets Mt. Ararat (where no Armenian lives now) and does not get Nagorno Karabakh (where only Armenians live).
It is also surprising to see that Azerbaijan would be "united" with Northern Iran, where many ethnic Turks (Azernbaijanis) live. Why wouldn't they qualify to join Turkey?
Peters article is provocational, interesting and somewhat uninformed. There are more ethnic groups in the region than he discusses and many more details to the conflicts.
Peters admits that, although Armenia would not lose anything, it would not get justice either: "And one haunting wrong can never be redressed with a reward of territory: the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians by the dying Ottoman Empire," writes the former Lt. Col.
Thank you to Harut Sassounian for the information.
p.s. a technical error. Georgia also loses territory, although the map doesn't indicate Georgia as a "loser."