TRIPP project is like a knife to Iran’s throat: Viktor Litovkin

Viktor Litovkin, political scientist and military expert, told Alpha News how relations between Russia and the United States may change after the Democrats’ victory in both chambers of Congress, and also spoke about the prospects for implementing the TRIPP project (the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity).

“The congressional elections will not change relations between Russia and the United States much. They were as bad as they could be, give or take, and they won’t get any worse. Yes, there will be some difficulties, but Russia and the US have always had difficulties, because the United States has always sought to be the hegemon and to assert its superiority over Russia. It has never succeeded, yet it will keep trying,” the expert believes.

In his view, Donald Trump, President of the United States, promised Russia a lot but delivered none of it.

“As for Europe, that’s simply Trump’s attitude toward Europe; it has nothing to do with Russia. But let’s remember that Trump promised us to restore direct flights from Moscow to Washington and New York. And where are those direct flights? Trump was going to return our diplomatic property. Did he? Trump promised to let us increase our embassy staff in Washington and our consular offices in various cities, in New York and Los Angeles, as far as I remember. He didn’t. So as for the talk that he wanted to improve relations with Russia: yes, he wanted to, but he didn’t do it,” Litovkin stressed.

The political scientist sees only one obstacle to the implementation of the TRIPP project in the region, and that obstacle is Iran, which will not allow the project to go ahead.

“As for the TRIPP project, it is of course in the interests of the United States, and the US will try to push it forward. But there is Iran, for which this project is a knife to the throat. So Iran will try to counter it. And since Iran feels it has won the war with Trump, I think it will not allow this ‘Zangezur corridor’ to operate, even though Armenia claims that no weapons and so on will be transported through this corridor. But who will believe them?” the expert concluded.