Trump Route to benefit the U.S. and its partners in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, experts say

Published: 2026-01-21 11:08

"The coming implementation of the TRIPP route (Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity) looks like a major success in the Trump administration’s commercially focused foreign policy, and it is a model of constructive partnership that the White House should use elsewhere around the world. The project promises openings for American companies to build a small but crucial link to knitting the Middle Corridor together, a boon for the United States, as well as its partners in the South Caucasus and Central Asia," write Andrew D’Anieri, associate director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, and Joseph Epstein, director of the Turan Research Center and a senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute, in an article published by the Atlantic Council, one of the leading U.S. think tanks.

"Sidelining Russia and Iran in the process may also decrease their ability to exert economic pressure in the region, giving leaders such as Pashinyan and Aliyev a freer hand to exercise their sovereignty and pursue their countries’ best interests," the authors add.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News