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 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.
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.
Russia to send in troops after plea from Biden for
help in suppressing insurrection...
“He blamed the unrest on foreign-trained terrorists “
Wonder if those came from Afgan...
More likely our first crypto revolution.
This is a See Eye Hay Operation. This is what it is all about. Brandon needs oil.
https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/kazakhstan-discovers-new-massive-oil-gas-field-2021-3-1-30/
Khalel Uzbekgaliyev is the largest field discovered in the Mangystau region since the country gained independence,” said Baltabek Kuandykov, who heads Meridian Petroleum.
The oil concentrated in the field is reportedly low in sulfurous content as compared with hydrocarbons produced in other parts of Kazakhstan, which makes it easier to process and transport fossil fuel.
Hi.
Throughout history small battles can lead to large wars.
For this year’s example, what’s happening in the Donbass and Persian gulf?
And other hot spots...
Might be an interesting year. February 1 begins the year of the tiger in China.
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Right, why should people have freedom or democracy?
The title is wrong.
The violence is not “fresh” arising from the Russian actions. It was already happening before the Russian action. Putin thinks he is backing up one of his state-underlings (how he thinks of them whether they agree with that or not). In 2013 Putin made the statement that the Kazaks had never had an independent state; which is historically not true. The Soviet Union did not capture Kazakhstan, that was done in the 1800s by the Russian Empire prior to the formation of the Soviet Union and some 400 years after an indepedent Kazak state had been formed. As a result of the history as a part of the Russian/Soviet empire, the use of the Russian language stands about even with the Kazak language in Kazakhstan.
Regimes that fix or subsidize energy/fuel prices by executive fiat and at some point have to raise them, or allow market forces to raise them, forget that the previous fixed/subsidized prices were taken as an entitlement for as long as the prices stayed low.
That was what Kazakhstan had been doing for many years and only just in 2019 began to transition to fuel prices being determined by markets.
The current turmoil has followed the end of government subsidized fuel prices and this past years increase in market based fuel prices. It may be better for the Kazaks in the long run but for now they feel like a former entitlement has been pulled away - which is in fact what has happened. Try ending all federal long standing aid for XXXXX today and see what happens.
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