Posted on 01/06/2022 10:10:10 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Fresh violence raged in Kazakhstan’s main city on Thursday after Russia rushed in paratroopers overnight to put down a countrywide uprising in the former Soviet state closely allied to Moscow.
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Nazarbayev’s hand-picked successor, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called in forces from ally Russia overnight as part of a Moscow-led military alliance of ex-Soviet states. He blamed the unrest on foreign-trained terrorists who he said had seized buildings and weapons.
“It is an undermining of the integrity of the state and most importantly it is an attack on our citizens who are asking me… to help them urgently,” he said.
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Whatever Happened To ISIS?
They found a new home I suspect.
Can we send all our rioters, looters and Democrats there too?
Where is Borat now that he is needed?
I guess the coup wasn’t a “Great Success”.
Seems so.
Excellent idea!
Probably dodging the Law.
I believe they are protests over gas prices being raised.
The Kazakh regime is bringing in Russian troops to save them.
When you need to bring in foreign troops to shoot your own people, you have already lost the population.
I read the immediate cause was the announcement of gas prices, but also the Covid restrictions and some price controls they had recently put in place.
This is, according to the western press, about fuel prices. It seems that it would be better to increase petroleum production to meet demand; Kazakhstan has plenty of resources. So there is no need to tear up the country over this.
Something else is going on; the government says it is due to foreign trained terrorists. Russia, Belarus and Armenia are sending troops. This appears more like an attempt to topple a CIS member by outside interests. (Russia’s Cosmodrome is in Kazakhstan, BTW).
Joe Biden just spoke out today, condemning “insurrectionists.”
I’m sure he was referring to Khazakstan.
The Russian goal is to as near as possible recover the borders of 1914.
Makes me wonder if Russia will be ‘invited’ to annex Kazakhstan since their attempt to invade and occupy Ukraine has faltered for now.
Yeah, reLIEable Rooters.
Something else is going on; the government says it is due to foreign trained terrorists.
Much more likely.
We had all those ISIS guys sitting around, doing nothing ...
Sure they are.
Russia to send in troops after plea from Biden for
help in suppressing insurrection...
Tell Joe I just spoke out today condemning idiots, like him. I saw the comment about Trump supporters being like a dagger to the throat of democracy. 2024 cannot come soon enough for this POS.
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