Russia Lost the Caucasus to a 42-Kilometer Strip. #shorts
For 200 years, every road through the South Caucasus went through Russia. On August 8, 2025, Pashinyan and Aliyev signed a deal with Trump in Washington. Forty-two kilometers across Armenia's Syunik province — connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave. Russia wasn't invited. It's called TRIPP — Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. Rail. Gas pipeline. Power lines. Fiber optic. All under a forty-nine-year lease to a US-Armenian consortium. 74% American. The 2020 plan would have put this corridor under Russian FSB control. The August 2025 deal didn't even mention Moscow. Lavrov pretends it doesn't exist. Iran spent decades blocking this exact corridor. Then Pezeshkian flew to Yerevan and accepted it. The IRGC still threatens. Tehran is split. But here's the catch: the original 99-year lease got quietly cut to 49 in January 2026. Nine months after the deal, not a single meter has been built. The Trump corridor is still on paper. Sources: - Bloomberg (Jan 14, 2026) — 49-year lease scoop - Carnegie Endowment (Mar 2026) — TRIPP geopolitics - Foreign Policy (Aug 8, 2025) — original signing - Eurasianet, Caspian News (Nov 2025) — construction late 2026 - Al Jazeera (Aug 19, 2025) — Pezeshkian Yerevan visit - Jamestown, Stimson — Russia/Iran reactions Follow Money Maps for geopolitics, mapped out. #geopolitics #armenia #azerbaijan #tripp #trump #russia #iran #caucasus #moneymaps #Shorts
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For two hundred years, Russia controlled every road through the South Caucasus. Last August, Trump cut a forty-two kilometer hole through it. Moscow wasn't invited. It's called TRIPP. Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. Forty-two kilometers across Armenia's Syunik province — connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave. Not just a road. Rail. Gas pipeline. Power lines. Fiber optic. All of it under a forty-nine-year lease — to a US-Armenian consortium. Seventy-four percent American. For two hundred years, every Caucasus route went through Russia. Then this. The August twenty twenty-five deal didn't even mention Moscow. Lavrov pretends it doesn't exist. Iran spent decades blocking this exact corridor. In August, Pezeshkian flew to Yerevan and accepted it. The IRGC still threatens. Tehran is split. But here's the catch. The original ninety-nine-year lease got cut to forty-nine. Nine months later, not a single meter has been built. The Trump corridor is still on paper. Follow Money Maps for more.
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