>>/40986/
Not really that influential. They sold drones to Azerbaijan and their army personnel provided some training in combat tactics to Azerbaijan before the war but outside of that, not much. The biggest action they undertook was parking F-16s in Azerbaijan to deter Russia, Iran or France from doing anything stupid to help Armenia. Mercenaries are still kind of a grey area, it's possible some volunteers showed up but I don't see much actual evidence. One video of them driving was clearly not from Azerbaijan, another of a Syrian "mercenary" confessing turned out to be a Syrian-Armenian in Azerbaijani border guard uniform.
>>/41050/
One rumor I heard is that the US is preparing to do some "rebel backing" in East Turkestan with the Uighurs. Seeing as China is Numero Uno on the USA's shitlist now, it makes sense that they'd try to destabilize. Could end up with WW3 in the worst case scenario and Vietnam 2.0 in the best case scenario if they really are stupid enough to go through with it. And with Biden increasingly likely a shoe-in (even with Trump's lawsuits, he's done for. He's not been officially booted out but let's face it, if he doesn't get something major by January 20, he's finished), looks like we're back in the "wars for freedom and democracy" era.