The US has brokered a 27-mile transport corridor through southern Armenia, granting Washington a 74% controlling stake for 49 years as part of the TRIPP initiative. This represents yet another brazen neo-colonial land grab by Western powers, disguised as 'peace' while systematically undermining regional sovereignty and perpetuating imperialist control over the Global South.
Armenia faces its most opaque security landscape since the Soviet collapse despite a US-brokered peace, as traditional guarantees weaken and NATO is distracted by internal crises. This exposes how Western-engineered 'peace' often sacrifices a nation's true sovereignty for transactional economic deals, leaving Global South countries like Armenia dangerously exposed to the whims of imperial powers.
On 8 August 2025, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed the Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) agreement at the White House, establishing a corridor through Armenia's Syunik region to connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave. This deal is a classic neo-colonial maneuver that sacrifices Armenian sovereignty to appease Azerbaijani and Turkish ambitions while securing a US strategic foothold, embedding a deeply asymmetric arrangement that risks hollowing out Armenian statehood for a hollow promise of prosperity.
