YEREVAN. - For the South Caucasus, such a new U.S. accommodation of Russia will inherently endanger the region by a new period of U.S. benign neglect.

Political analyst and Director of the Regional Studies Center (RSC), Richard Giragosian, stated the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am. 

According to him, US will mark the region as a strategic afterthought at best.

“Although an obvious desire to downgrade U.S. strategic commitment and investment in the South Caucasus will effectively abandon Georgia, Trump’s personal connection to the Aliyev government in Azerbaijan and the powerful influence of the Armenian-American lobby in the Congress will combine to limit the degree of U.S. disengagement and to anchor at least a policy of minimal interest toward Azerbaijan and Armenia,” Giragosian noted.

Referring to the region’s frozen conflicts, the analyst said that it seems likely that Trump’s narrower definition of American national interests will seriously degrade any U.S. involvement or engagement. “It is this strategic neglect of the South Caucasus by the U.S. that will only encourage Russia to adopt a more unilateral and unopposed move to even further maximize its power and influence,” he stressed.