The Zionist ‘Development’ Blueprints for Azerbaijan and Armenia
With President Donald Trump’s deposition of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Israel’s and Argentina’s adoption of the Isaac Accords to promote “commercial development,” the contours of a new Latin America may be coming into focus. This is a Latin America where the stick of American imperial intervention (waved first at Venezuela but possibly also at Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico) will be alternated with the carrot of investment from Washington and Tel Aviv, based mostly on the intercessions of Zionist operators.
What will this new region look like? A clue comes an ocean away in a mostly forgotten part of Western Asia that is home to Azerbaijan and Armenia, cradles of Islamic and Christian civilization and neighbors of Iran—like Venezuela a main target of American empire. Thanks to directives from Washington via Tel Aviv and Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and in tandem with the expansion of the Abraham Accords, the model for the Isaac Accords, Azerbaijan and Armenia are set to be transformed by the raw infliction of power on undeveloped spaces and the spread-out people who live in them.
The formal vehicle for this Western Asian operation is another outgrowth of war and commerce: a peace treaty signed at the White House last August at the behest of President Trump. This treaty nominally ends a war that has run intermittently since 2020 between Christian and (d)emocratic Armenia and its more powerful neighbor, Muslim and authoritarian Azerbaijan. What it actually does is open both nations to imperial development plans by Washington and its proxies in the name of “commerce” and “modernization.”
The key provisions of this deal, and the reasons Washington is involved, have to do with what’s known as the Zangezur Corridor. This is a projected 26.7 mile road running through Armenia, connecting Azerbaijan in the North to Turkey in the South. The Corridor will pass through the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic: an Azerbaijani exclave surrounded on three sides by Armenia and on one by Turkey. It will purportedly solve the long-running ethnic and religious conflicts between Azerbaijani Muslims and Armenian Christians, some of which flow from Azerbaijanis’ presence in Armenia via the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. But, much as narcotics are not the real issues at play in Venezuela, so ethnic and religious conflicts are not the real issues at play in Azerbaijan and Armenia. The real issues at play are resources and geography.
According to the investigative website The Cradle, “Armenia plans to award US companies exclusive special development rights for an extended period on the transit corridor.” The plan, in turn, benefits Azerbaijan, since “the corridor will…give [Azerbaijan] a direct link to Turkey,” an ally of Washington’s. This will make the Corridor “the crucial missing link in a trade route connecting Asia and Europe” by giving “Azerbaijan another route to send natural gas by pipeline to Europe via Turkey,” thus reducing Europe’s oil dependency on Russia. Finally, crucially, “by controlling the Zangezur Corridor, Washington will now be able to post troops directly on Iran’s border, cutting off Tehran’s access to [Iran’s longtime ally] Armenia.”
The agreement over the Zangezur Corridor, then, is Washinton’s way of using Azerbaijan to reduce Russian influence in Western Asia—and to reduce the influence of Russia’s ally and Israel’s enemy Iran. But, much as American involvement in Venezuela was the dramatic crux of a longer Zionist play based on commercial development via the Isaac Accords, so is the inking of the Azerbaijan-Armenia peace agreement part of a quieter play run by three Washington proxies: Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. It is these proxies who have paved the ground for Washington’s involvement in this part of Western Asia, and who will strengthen that involvement around the peace deal brokered by Trump and via the framework of the Abraham Accords.
The core relationship at play, the one which made Washington’s involvement in the Zangezur Corridor possible, is between Azerbaijan and Israel. This relationship is so longstanding and deep that, in the words of the Jewish News Syndicate in 2025, “Azerbaijan is Israel’s second closest friend” and “Israel’s largest importer of weapons” to the point where, “in the last decade, almost 70% of Azerbaijan’s military imports came from Israel.” Israel’s left-wing newspaper, Haaretz, took a starker view of the relationship:
“…the Israel-Azerbaijan relationship relies on an unholy trinity of oil, arms and intelligence. Israel buys oil from Azerbaijan (about half of Israel’s crude oil originates there), and sells it advanced military equipment. In return, Azerbaijan reportedly gives it access to its land and sea border with Israel’s number one rival: Iran.”
Azerbaijan won its wars against Armenia in 2020 and 2023, paving the way for the peace agreement inked by Trump, “thanks in no small part to game-changing weaponry supplied by Israel.” According to the report in Haaretz, a main guarantor of these services was Israel’s former defense minister: Avigdor Lieberman, who “has served twice as deputy prime minister of Israel and became minister successively at six different ministries.” Lieberman has visited Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, more than any other Israeli minister, and, according to Haaretz:
“…in recent years, Lieberman’s sons have marketed a number of Israeli high-tech products to the government of Azerbaijan: a cyberoffense product made by the cybersecurity company Candiru; a big data system for improving tax collection by another cybersecurity firm, Rayzone; and water desalination technologies by the Israeli company IDE. The potential commissions from brokering these three ventures alone could reach millions of dollars. Additionally, until recently, the Lieberman brothers represented Azerbaijan Airlines (the national flag carrier controlled by the state) in Israel.”
According to a follow-up report in Armenian Weekly:
“Several Israeli firms like Pegasus and Candiru sold spyware to Azerbaijan to hack the phones of the regime’s opponents. Today, 18 Azeri journalists are in jail. The Candiru sale was mediated by Lieberman’s two sons in exchange for a commission ‘estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars.’ From a deal with cyber firm Rayzone, they earned ‘a commission of about $200,000,’ according to…Haaretz.”
The other major personnel connection between Azerbaijan and Israel is Tony Blair, the former British prime minister with a deep bench of Zionist connections slated to become a latter-day British viceroy of Gaza under Trump’s 20-point September 2025 “peace plan” to “end” the Gaza War—a peace plan toward which Azerbaijan has already committed troops. In 2023 and 2024, Blair received criticism for his role advising the Azerbaijani government on both exporting natural gas as well as instituting “eco-friendly modernization” policies. This process of “greenwashing”—covering authoritarian modernization programs and their abuses with a “climate-friendly” face to appeal to western investors—is a tactic used by Israel’s main regional allies, the Saudi and United Arab Emirates regimes. Their main vehicles for this tactic are smart cities, which I reported on for the Libertarian Institute in May, most prominently the Saudi regime’s marquee development Neom.
Nominally projects to conserve the environment, these cities relocate indigenous populations in the tens of thousands to create urban spaces for white collar workers serviced by Kenyan or Bangladeshi immigrants and living in “space saving” apartments which double as AI-based surveillance spaces. Troublingly, as I have also reported for the Libertarian Institute, they are quite literally the model for the proposed relocate-then-raze-then-rebuild of Gaza first proposed by Zionist operative Joseph Pelzman at the implicit urging of Zionist operative Jared Kushner in late 2024 and early 2025—a version of which is soon to be presided over by Tony Blair under the peace plan proposed by Kushner’s father-in-law Donald Trump. They also bear more than a passing resemblance to projects in cities like Miami and New York—and some of the same Zionist operators involved in these projects are involved in the ones in the Middle East.
Azerbaijan’s authoritarian ruler Ilham Aliyev appears to have borrowed a page from this eco-friendly, smart city playbook, to the immediate benefit of his relations with the Saudi and Emirati regimes.
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