US begins pushing Moscow out of South Caucasus – Movses Ghazaryan

Speaking with Alpha News, political scientist Movses Ghazaryan discussed the visit of US Vice President JD Vance to Armenia and Azerbaijan and analyzed the future developments in the South Caucasus region.

“I think that now a gradual displacement of Moscow from the South Caucasus will begin. In my view, this process will unfold step by step, in a balanced manner, because Washington does not want to provoke Moscow too much. Moreover, Washington has a very serious advantage—Pashinyan’s cabinet in Yerevan. So, in a sense, they don’t really have to worry for now,” the expert said.

Ghazaryan addressed the technological and knowledge-intensive aspects of US–Armenia cooperation. In his opinion, the majority of benefits from these projects will go to the United States.

“In addition, by the way, a very interesting point for us is related to the implementation of Nvidia’s infrastructure, various computing centers. Formally, it may seem like a positive economic anchor, but it turns out not to be the case, because 80% of the generated capacities within this project are intended for American companies, and only 20% for Armenian enterprises,” Ghazaryan emphasized.

The political scientist does not see strategic consistency in arms supplies to Armenia.

“To build a combat-ready Armenian army even in the medium term, Armenia needs not only drones—it needs tanks, heavy weapons, artillery, mass training for large numbers of personnel, and so on. But this is not happening. And these unmanned aerial vehicles are unlikely to be under the full control of the Armenian armed forces. This is a foothold. This is Iran, but not only. And, most interestingly, Washington tried to impose similar infrastructure, for example, on other Middle Eastern countries. So Washington’s goal is to cover, in intelligence terms, both Middle Eastern and Asian countries—with China being a primary target,” he concluded.