The United States’ decision to broker a transit corridor between Armenia and Azerbaijan may appear, at first glance, as a narrow regional intervention. In fact, it offers a revealing window into the logic that came to define Trump-era diplomacy. The so-called “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity”, or TRIPP, is more than an infrastructure project in the South Caucasus. It is an expression of Trump’s worldview that treats diplomacy as commercial dealmaking and international order as a series of transactions rather than a system of shared binding rules.
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