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【國際關係深度評 🇦🇲🇦🇿🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷🇹🇷】 高加索「大和解」:「特朗普樂園」出現在伊朗邊境不是夢(三)

三、亞美尼亞、阿塞拜疆大和解之後,出現的美國飛地「特朗普走廊」究竟會怎樣?如果認真發展經濟,潛力真的無限。

首先,這條走廊足以成為阿塞拜疆石油經土耳其輸入歐洲的關鍵管道,而阿塞拜疆是能源大國,石油、天然氣儲存量非常豐富,首都巴庫甚至流行「石油浴」,富有階層過著紙醉金迷的生活,只是一直和外界相對隔絕,潛力也未盡展現。現在阿塞拜疆能源有了更多進入歐洲的管道,除了有望進一步發大財,由於不用再浪費資源和亞美尼亞開戰,破除了昔日蘇聯刻意製造的「以夷制夷」矛盾,也可以令整個高加索地區可能成為地緣政治的一極,不用再作俄羅斯附庸。

據報現在已經有九家企業爭奪發展「走廊」,特朗普的地產夢想,例如「Trump Tower」遍地開花,也可望在以他命名的走廊成真。他說這一帶經濟可以大起飛是相對合理的,起碼比起說加沙地帶可以經濟起飛合理得多。

四、 「特朗普」走廊連接阿塞拜疆與飛地納希切曼,而飛地又接壤土耳其邊境,阿塞拜疆又是與美國對手俄羅斯、伊朗接壤的國家,這裏有非常重要的軍事價值。須知土耳其和美國都是北約成員國,有了這條走廊,可以說北約勢力已經直接進入了高加索地區,在最前線監察著俄羅斯和伊朗。美國就算暫時不會把走廊變成軍事區,但因為走廊和土耳其接壤,真的需要進行軍事行動的時候,就會非常方便,因為可以通過土耳其這個北約成員國源源不絕的進行補給。俄羅斯日防夜防北約通過烏克蘭,對俄羅斯極限施壓,現在有了「特朗普走廊」在後院,難道不是更芒刺在背?

五、在國際能源政治角度,「特朗普走廊」也是一個龐大計劃的最後一塊拼圖,這個計劃和中國息息相關,名叫「跨裏海國際運輸網絡」(Trans-Caspian International Transport Route),一般被國際關係學者稱為「中央走廊」。

所謂「中央走廊」,就是中國通往歐洲的通道,也可以算是「一帶一路」部份,「中央」就是位於中間的路線,核心是貫穿格魯吉亞、阿塞拜疆和土耳其的「巴庫-第比利斯-卡薩鐵路」(Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway)。這條鐵路至今運作才幾年,已經大幅度取代了依賴俄羅斯的「北方走廊」,和通過伊朗、海路經蘇伊士運河的「南方走廊」,在俄烏戰爭爆發後,更證明了自己的戰略價值。現在有了「特朗普通道」,就連亞美尼亞也融入了這條「中央走廊」之中,既解決了亞美尼亞的孤立困境,也為這條通路的不安全性掃除最後障礙,中國固然是「搭便車」的既得利益方,高加索三國、土耳其也都得到擺脫俄羅斯影響的更多籌碼。而這一切,都是以美國進入區域為槓桿。

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【國際關係深度評 🇦🇲🇦🇿🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷🇹🇷】 高加索「大和解」:「特朗普樂園」出現在伊朗邊境不是夢(三)

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George

如果打算去高加索三國旅行,特別想去灰色地帶,除左ex-納卡地區,Trump走廊&飛地,仲有冇咩地方推介呢?

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