One must be at least hopeless neoliberal to believe claims that  `Trump route` will significantly increase Armenia`s security - expert 

ArmInfo.  One must be at least a hopeless neoliberal to believe the claims that the "Trump route" will significantly increase Armenia's security. This is what expert and political science doctor Vahe Davtyan writes in his Telegram  channel.

"It is often said that although Washington will not have a military  presence in Syunik, American capital will not allow any escalation  here for the sake of its own stability and security. In theory, this  is all true.  However, "on the ground" we have the exact opposite  picture. If this approach worked, the presence of the same Western  capital would restrain the development of various conflicts in Niger,  Sudan, Thailand and many other "boiling points," the political  scientist noted.

He urged not to go too far in this matter, recalling that on May 31,  2005, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia  Vardan Oskanyan stated that the launch of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil  pipeline excluded a military solution to the Artsakh problem.  According to him, large-scale armed conflicts in the region are  already unlikely.

"The conceptual basis of this statement is the same: "international  capital will not allow this." It is not difficult to guess what role  this oil pipeline, as well as the Southern Gas Corridor, commissioned  in 2020, played in the formation of the international pro-Azerbaijani  lobbying system and, ultimately, the de- Armenianization of Artsakh.  Now the key beneficiary of the "Trump route" - Baku - is trying to  present the new communication as an important hub connecting the West  with the East, thereby paving the way for international  legitimization of its own expansion of presence in Syunik in the  future, preventing any attempts at a real unblockade in the region.  This, in turn, is fully consistent with the desire of a number of  Western players, as well as Ankara and Tel Aviv, to change the legal  status of the Caspian Sea," the expert stated.

On August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint "peace declaration" in  Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for  Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk  process and related structures, as well as the creation of a  transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect  Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave. The TRIPP (Trump Route for  International Peace and Prosperity) project, a 42-km road in southern  Armenia that will hand over control of the road to the United States  for 99 years, according to experts, is capable of significantly  changing the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus.  On the  same day, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed a  peace agreement, which consists of 17 articles. The preamble of the  document states that the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of  Azerbaijan, recognizing the urgent need to establish a just,  comprehensive and lasting peace in the region, striving to promote  the achievement of this goal through the establishment of interstate  relations, guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the  Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly  Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter  of the United Nations (1970), the Final Act of the Helsinki  Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1975) and the  Almaty Declaration of December 21, 1991, and striving to develop  relations based on the norms and principles enshrined in the said  documents, expressing mutual will to establish good-neighborly  relations among themselves, agreed to establish peace and interstate  relations.