The TRIPP project risks developing into an unrealized long-term construction - Vladimir Kiriev.
Political scientist Vladimir Kiriev spoke to Alpha News about the impact of the victory of the Democratic Party in the US in the elections to both houses of Congress on the relations between Russia and the US, and how it will affect the TRIPP project.
"The Democrats are sticking to the old agenda that has been adopted in the US for many years. This is a path to a high level of conflict, to support the isolation of Russia, and this will manifest itself in the fact that Trump's new path, which was related to the long-term normalization of relations between the United States and Russia, is necessary for an American state in the long term of Trump's process, from Trump's long-term perspective. Democrats who won Congress and the upper house, who mostly stick to the old agenda they will sabotage, are against this new normalization of relations. Therefore, this means increasing the level of the conflict, sabotaging Trump's reconciliation initiatives and supporting the conflict in Ukraine, saturating Ukraine with weapons so that the conflict will last as long as possible and possibly enter an active phase - that is, direct military action between NATO and Russia," the expert believes.
An Alfa News interlocutor doubted the implementation of the TRIPP project and noted that it would probably not come to fruition.
"The TRIPP project is Trump's personal initiative to cut the Gordian knot of intractable problems in the South Caucasus. This is Trump's personal initiative, and the Democrats will not continue this line. They will verbally support the normalization of relations, but in fact they will not present or allocate resources for this. That is, everything will be limited to a certain level of human travel, general exchange of words, in general facts. An accelerated solution using the extraordinary methods adopted by Trump will be shelved, and this project may develop into such a long-term construction," Kiriev concluded.