The two countries in the South Caucasus region signed an agreement that will create a major transit corridor that will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. That route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory. .
The deal between the two former Soviet republics also strikes a geopolitical blow to their former imperial master, Russia. Throughout the nearly four-decade conflict, Moscow played mediator to expand its clout in the strategic South Caucasus region, but its influence waned quickly after it launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
