Why Putin Just Raised a Massive Army Back From the Dead

The Daily Beast ^ | January 7, 2022 | Anna Nemtsova

[Dr. Franklin]

MOSCOW—The sixth day of violent unrest devolved into a massacre on the streets of Kazakhstan’s capital city of Almaty, with dozens of protesters and at least 13 law enforcement officials killed, as well as hundreds more wounded.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev—who just a week ago was considered a weak shadow of Kazakhstan’s now-ousted Security Council Chairman Narsultan Nazarbayev—admitted he was the one who had given local security forces the order “to shoot to kill” protestors without warning on Thursday. Never before has any post-Soviet leader confessed to such a terrifying order.

A day prior to Thursday’s bloodshed, Tokayev had claimed he was fighting against “international terrorist gangs,” referring to the Kazakh demonstrators who had taken to the streets this week to protest social and economic turmoil in the country. The president said that local security forces had failed control the situation, and admitted he had asked the the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)—a Russian-led military alliance with a “peacekeeping force” of 3,600 troops—to help quell the unrest, which is looking more and more like it could spiral into a civil war. The CSTO obliged, with Russian troops arriving on Thursday.

“Tokayev needed CSTO as club to demonstrate to his commanders that, ‘See, Moscow backs me up, there is a Russian soldier that stands next to you shoulder to shoulder,’” pro-Kremlin political expert Sergei Markov told The Daily Beast on Thursday, as Russian special units were boarding military jets enroute to Almaty. “This is the first time CSTO forces get deployed to a foreign state, and it’s a message to Washington: Vladimir Putin has his own effective NATO capable of fulfilling military tasks.”

[Dr. Franklin]

There are a few other threads on this topic, but the important point from this article is that that an illegitimate government claims that it is fighting not its own people, but “international terrorist gangs”. Does that sound familiar to anyone watching Nazi Pelosi's sham January 6th Committee? Domestic protesters aren't just political opponents, but terrorists!

Perhaps, opponents of Putin's plan to recreate the USSR in Belarus, or the Donbass region might take this opportunity to press the issue, and spread Putin's storm troops thin and win the day. It simply reminds me that a year later, no one here is doing much anything about a blatantly stolen election. We haven't even had an organized economic boycott of Chinese made goods, and many self-proclaimed conservatives continue to watch Murdoch's FAUX News, because it targets them. The battle of the day is Internationalism vs. Nationalism. When do people wake up to that fact?

[Paladin2]

“Domestic protesters aren’t just political opponents, but terrorists! “

Well, that’s what Cruz thinks....

[BipolarBob]

[alexander_busek]

Why Putin Just Raised a Massive Army Back From the Dead

Just who does he think he is - Aragorn?

Regards,

[Starboard]

“It simply reminds me that a year later, no one here is doing much anything about a blatantly stolen election.”

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Perhaps its because we don’t have a political party that fights for us.

If we had a real party with principles and convictions, and was willing to fight for them, maybe things maybe things would be different. Just saying.

[Spok]

I wonder why the media doesn’t report on this. It seems like they’re totally focused on their domestic agenda and are afraid people will be traumatized or confused. In my estimation the media sinks lower and lower. They don’t even pretend they’re reporting news anymore.

[Starboard]

Well, that’s what Cruz thinks....

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After saying that nobody cares what he thinks anymore.

[pierrem15]

It also shows fundamental weakness: he had to call in foreign troops because his own army couldn’t be trusted to shoot their own people. I read something similar about the Maidan protests in Ukraine. Yanukovich had snipers (Ukrainian or Russian) shooting protesters but his own forces refused to open fire and that’s when he ran out of Ukraine.

[Starboard]

I wonder why the media doesn’t report on this.

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The media only reports all the news that fits their agenda.

[null and void]

God Almaty! This looks bad!

[BenLurkin]

[silverleaf]

If the Capital rioters on Jan 6 had beheaded Capitol Hill police, would you have excused them as political opponents of an illegitimate Government? And condemned security forces using deadly means against them,

The current Kazakh president is an elected successor to a strongman regime ( also “ elected’) and propped up for almost 3 decades by US politicians…most notably the Clintons.

Who are we to lecture about democratic elections, anyway, That ship of moral standing sailed a year ago.

Notice to Foggy Bottom and the CIA:
Putin read your playbook, you magnificent bastards.
Hopefully he has learned from what the US and their proxies did in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and all the other “ civil wars” that were sprung as color revolutions, and from decades past. Hopefully Russia will act early and effectively to stop the spread of bloodshed.

After all, when Joe Biden Instructed his lapdog Generals Austin and Milly to do a 21st century Elphinstone retreat from Afghanistan….wtf did they think was going to fill the power vacuum left to establish a new regional order in Central Asia,

[dfwgator]

[BipolarBob]

LOL!

[Fido969]

I wonder why the media doesn’t report on this.

The media is being told by the Democrats not to get into this, partially because they want to maintain the fiction that the January 6 frat party was as bad as a protest can get.

[EEGator]

Brendan Fraser isn’t looking much better than them nowadays...

[PIF]

Yanukovich had snipers (Ukrainian or Russian) shooting protesters but his own forces refused to open fire

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Sure to be used as the model when things get hot here. Possibly using various cartel snipers

[NWFree]

“ admitted he was the one who had given local security forces the order “to shoot to kill” protestors without warning on Thursday”

At least he admitted it unlike the libtard that ordered the killing of Ashley 🤪

[enumerated]

Because Marxism is entirely based on a lie, the Left is forced to operates by a strategy of deceit. They can’t tell the truth about anything or the people would want none of it.

So they lie about everything. They lie about what their agenda is. They lie about what is happening in the world and what it means.

Most of all - they lie about who they are. They disguise themselves as the good guys. They disguise themselves as Republicans.

I don’t know why this would surprise anyone… of course they would call themselves Republicans.

We call them RINOs, but I really get the impression people keep expecting them to do the right thing and act like a true Republican.

I hate to pop anyone’s ballon, but a bunch of these RINOs are not just Republicans who have sold out or gone astray - they are LITERALLY RINOs. They are committed life-long Leftists - simply wearing a disguise.

There is no shame in being fooled by a liar once. Unless you can read minds, it’s impossible to know if someone is lying. If we get fooled twice - shame on us.

I think we should stop kicking ourselves for past mistakes and just try and do a better job of of identifying truth-tellers in the future.

I voted for Romney in 2012 - but that’s not on me - I did nothing wrong - he is the one that lied - not me.

I’m just going to try and do a better job of predicting who is honest and who is not - and keep a better list of who has betrayed us already.

[EBH]

They are not the media anymore. They are the government propaganda arm.

There is no ‘free press’ anymore. (and that is not hyperbole)