“”The average American couldn’t even pronounce the name of this country or find it on a map,””””
My brother was in the Air Guard and I think he spent a stretch at a base there about a dozen years ago. I believe it was some kind of huge fuel depot. I’ll have to ask him about that.
I went on a Kazakhstan mission trip many many years ago and as we went across the terrain our driver of a dilapidated vehicle (you could see the road looking down by your feet) told us that the muslims were offering the locals money to erect mosques every so many miles. They were gladly accepting the money.