Trump’s Caucasus Peace Deal Could Undermine Georgia's Geopolitical Importance

Officials in Tbilisi are cheering US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Armenia and Azerbaijan, even though the creation of a new transit corridor envisioned under the deal threatens to relegate Georgia to geopolitical and economic irrelevance in the eyes of the West. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze hailed the provisional Armenian-Azerbaijani accord soon after it was signed at the White House on August 8, describing it as a “landmark peace deal and opening a new era of stability and economic development in the region.”…