How has this region not destroyed each other yet?

fucking your neighbor's goat isn't very effective warfare

>>3373996
the mountains make it too much of a hassle.

>>3373996
byzantines genocided them and then got blown the fuck out by turks

Fascinating region. Chechens and others literally converted to Islam as a middle finger to Russia lol.

To answer the question though, I think it's a lot like Afghanistan: they don't necessarily have a problem with each other, it's when someone tries to rule them and change their customs

>>3373996
Armenian fucked up Azerbaijan pretty badly OP, despite Armenia pretty much being inferior in men and equipment. That's why you have Nagorno-Karabakh there. Russia and Georgia went at it as well, that's why you have Abkhazia and South Ossetia there. Checens and all that you know, it involved Dagestan and neighboring regions as well.


To answer your question, it did, several times and it probably will again at some point as there are at least two frozen conflicts there.