Geographically and technically a trans-caucasus route is the best. the distance between ukraine and kazakhstan is 300 miles. Central asia is closer than we think.
Nobody noticed it but around a year ago, Turkey completed a wonderful project. the railroads on Turkey-Georgia-Azerbaijan line are united. it was a project first declared by an american general in 1917. By this project, a train leaves istanbul can reach china. it is such an important thing. And you know railroads and railroad logistic support is everthing in central asian geography and climax. in winter the temperature is around 40 celcius degrees below zero in kazakh steps.
when we write down all these things we notice that trans-caucasus is a better than iran. Why not iran? iran and Turkey are rivals for centuries and there are 3 countries who has goverment tradition in this region. Turkey-Iran-Russia, so do you think that one of these 3 grant you access for your economical desires and expanding effectiveness?
Will russia allow us? yes they will. they want the same. They will use Trabzon(a turkish city and an important port in black sea),Yerevan line. Georgian solid is not safe anymore and when the georgian border is closed, armenians really suffer too much.
Then what will happen? Trabzon yerevan line may be used by russians and by this way russia provides safety and stability for armenians. + turkish-armenian conflict will be solved. so russians are great big daddy for armenians once more
Russia wont need iran anymore when the subject is armenia.
Russia will keep the balance in caucasus with solving this problem. and Turkey wont interfare in Russia's business anymore. And if Armenian problem is solved, Turkey wont need Georgia anymore=)
in every option, russians make the profit=) if russians can stabilize the caucasus towards their own desires, they can control gas and oil routes. this means anybody wont be able to break russian cartel on energy.(you know, armenian azeri conflict is a serious matter and russia needs to earn azerbaijan to remain in the caucasus equation+ azeri gas and oil is very important, until arabic oil was discovered, Baku was the only oil production place in the entire world. even Nobel Brothers owe their wealth to the oil transport and refinery business in Baku. Also stalin was a worker in baku in 1901.)
And how to reach Pakistan? sub continent is a battle field now=) if you control oil and gas, you control the goverments. if you control the central asia, you control oil and gas... So if you control oil and gas, you dont need to destabilize afghanistan anymore. if pashtun tribes arent supported and encouraged for their independence, afghanistan problem will automatically be solved. uff, what a complex thing... here you see, it is a chess game =)