so lets talk about this Armenian-Azerbaijani thing

[Crepitus]

The TRIPP corridor. It's basically a "Panama canal" zone where the US government and a private consortium (mostly of tRump's billionaire buddies) will hold a 99 yeard lease on foreign land and in return they are getting nuclear power from the US, right?

Well not so much. We are promising them modular reactors. Small, safe, one city reactors for clean and nearly free energy. Sounds like a great deal for only a 15 mile ish long corridor lease, right?

Turns out we don't actually have these reactors to sell them. And they are paying us $9 billion for them. That money is gonna go straight to the companies that haven't been able to make a reactor work to keep them afloat. Why? Because they are favored by the corrupt *administration.

Then there's the fact that this is basically just a rebrand of an already existing project that is stalled for political reasons. Reasons that haven't gone anywhere, BTW, so it's unlike to really go anywhere now either.

The consortium that will own 76% of the corridor is basically operating as an arm of the US government, essentially a structural merger giving private firms government powers. And government money.

I'm pretty sure this isn't how these things are supposed to work.

 

[Grokmaster]

More madeup nonsense from Lie-a-topia...

It is great for the US, so natch' the leftidiot OP poster is against it.


Here is the actual story:

US and Azerbaijan sign strategic partnership during Vance visit​

• Azerbaijan and US to boost economic and security cooperation
• JD Vance visits Armenia and Azerbaijan after US peace accord
• South Caucasus countries mending ties after decades of war
• Planned transit corridor could transform region

BAKU, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The United States and Azerbaijan signed a strategic partnership in Baku on Tuesday encompassing economic and security cooperation as Washington seeks to expand its influence in a region where Russia was once the main power broker.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev inked the agreement with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, visiting Azerbaijan after travelling to its neighbour and longtime foe Armenia.


Vance said the U.S. would send Azerbaijan an undisclosed number of ships to help it protect its territorial waters.
The charter was first presented at talks between Aliyev and President Donald Trump in Washington in August, where Aliyev reached a peace agreement with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to end decades of war.

During his visit to Armenia this week, Vance signed a deal with Pashinyan that could pave the way for the U.S. to build a nuclear power plant in a country long dependent on imports of Russian and Iranian energy.

On his tour, Vance has also sought to advance the "Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP)", a proposed 43-km (27-mile) corridor that would cut across Armenia and give Azerbaijan direct access to its exclave of Nakhchivan and to its close ally Turkey.

The route would better connect Asia to Europe at a time when Washington wants to diversify energy and trade flows away from Russia due to its war in Ukraine.
"Our hope is that (TRIPP) will help build economic cooperation, cooperation on natural resources and critical minerals, and make it possible for this incredible peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia to truly endure," Vance said at a press conference with Aliyev.

Azerbaijan is keen to showcase its potential as a reliable partner for the U.S. in the region, said Rauf Mammadov, an energy policy scholar at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank.

"In terms of the hierarchy of priorities, Azerbaijan positioning itself as... a Western-oriented island of stability between Russia and Iran is important," he said.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have made steps towards putting their nearly 40-year-old conflict to rest since meeting with Trump last year. No formal peace deal has been signed, however, although they have restarted some energy shipments.

US and Azerbaijan sign strategic partnership during Vance visit

The United States and Azerbaijan signed a strategic partnership in Baku on Tuesday encompassing economic and security cooperation as Washington seeks to expand its influence in a region where Russia was once the main power broker.

www.reuters.com

 

[Hawkeye10]

The TRIPP corridor. It's basically a "Panama canal" zone where the US government and a private consortium (mostly of tRump's billionaire buddies) will hold a 99 yeard lease on foreign land and in return they are getting nuclear power from the US, right?

Well not so much. We are promising them modular reactors. Small, safe, one city reactors for clean and nearly free energy. Sounds like a great deal for only a 15 mile ish long corridor lease, right?

Turns out we don't actually have these reactors to sell them. And they are paying us $9 billion for them. That money is gonna go straight to the companies that haven't been able to make a reactor work to keep them afloat. Why? Because they are favored by the corrupt *administration.

Then there's the fact that this is basically just a rebrand of an already existing project that is stalled for political reasons. Reasons that haven't gone anywhere, BTW, so it's unlike to really go anywhere now either.

The consortium that will own 76% of the corridor is basically operating as an arm of the US government, essentially a structural merger giving private firms government powers. And government money.

I'm pretty sure this isn't how these things are supposed to work.

This is certainly a topic on my information network.....this is an Imperial Empire project to assault Iran Russia and China.....whether it will work is a matter of much dispute.