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,
For shooting random people without warning as is the stated policy? Well, yeah, I would condemn them.