I don’t know, but it’s not a region known for stability and great relations. Armenia and Azerbaijan were in a shooting war over territory a couple years ago, there’s several breakaway states, Russia’s slowly moving it’s border into Georgia…
Yeah I think georgia might be azerbaijans only neighbouring kind of ally in that region and has been suffering with trade as a result of russia and georgia
Well, the ones that are proposed may not actually be built. Talk is cheap, basically, and in less-than-democratic countries followup might be absent. But yes, it suggests are certain chummyness.
The biggest incentive to build the new pipelines is EU money for non-russian gas, which could be sourced from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan without touching Russia with the new pipelines I guess. But the Caspian sea is really deep, idk if its even possible.
So I guess Georgia and Azerbaijan are okay with each other right now?
Were they ever not?
I don’t know, but it’s not a region known for stability and great relations. Armenia and Azerbaijan were in a shooting war over territory a couple years ago, there’s several breakaway states, Russia’s slowly moving it’s border into Georgia…
Yeah I think georgia might be azerbaijans only neighbouring kind of ally in that region and has been suffering with trade as a result of russia and georgia
These pipeline are capital intensive, so how nations route them signals some political trust (maybe in the past).
Well, the ones that are proposed may not actually be built. Talk is cheap, basically, and in less-than-democratic countries followup might be absent. But yes, it suggests are certain chummyness.
The biggest incentive to build the new pipelines is EU money for non-russian gas, which could be sourced from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan without touching Russia with the new pipelines I guess. But the Caspian sea is really deep, idk if its even possible.