here<\/a>].<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe ink is barely dry on the so-called \u201cpeace deal\u201d brokered in Washington between Armenia and Azerbaijan, yet the celebration in Ankara and Baku is already in full swing, because what is being packaged as a \u201chistoric breakthrough\u201d is, in reality, a geopolitical victory for Turkey and Azerbaijan, with the United States as the strategic midwife \u2014 and Armenia as the primary loser.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s strip away the glossy rhetoric of \u201cpeace\u201d and \u201cprosperity\u201d and see this deal for what it is: a 99-year American-managed corridor through Armenia\u2019s Syunik province that gives Azerbaijan unimpeded access to its exclave of Nakhchivan and, crucially, opens Turkey\u2019s land route to the Caspian and onward to Central Asia.<\/p>\n
This is not an Armenian project. This is the physical manifestation of Ankara\u2019s decades-long Pan-Turkic dream \u2014 one that bypasses Iranian chokepoints, minimizes Russia\u2019s influence, and embeds Washington in the South Caucasus like never before.<\/p>\n