Trump’s ‘Peace Corridor’ Just Triggered an Arms Race — And It’s Exploding

Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

Episode notes

Trump called it peace. What he actually built was a weapons corridor, and now it’s blowing up in his face and Iran have popcorn. Right, so Donald Trump said he’d built a bridge of peace, and what he actually built was an arms market with a flag on it. The TRIPP corridor — his grand plan to join Armenia and Azerbaijan, box in Iran and call it diplomacy — has gone the way of every Trump deal before it: the photo survived, the peace didn’t. Within months of the signing, the two sides were buying jets from opposite sides of another diplomatic split, India and Pakistan were dragged into the fallout, and Iran, the country Trump swore to isolate, has ended up even stronger than when he started. The cameras caught a handshake; history caught a scam. This wasn’t peace through strength, it was profit through instability — a 99-year lease on chaos sold as v ... 

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Donald TrumpArmeniaAzerbaijanIranZangezurArms RacePakistanIndia