Posted on 01/08/2022 9:01:51 AM PST by 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.”
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Pelosi and her pals are the real terrorists. We must not forget that...ever!
The solution must be handled correctly. And there are three phases. First there is the soapbox. If that doesn’t work we move on to the ballot box. If that doesn’t work, that’s when we move on to the ammo box.
Let’s see how the 2022 elections go.
The only time people wake up is when it severely hurts their pocketbook, or their health and we are not quite there yet. But ever so slowly if things keep moving in the direction as planned and envisioned by the so called ‘Powers to be’ we may get there yet and then there will be a very rude awakening and hell to pay.
The Russian Empire maybe, not the USSR.
Putin is raising the Soviet Red Army from the dead. But it really didn’t die, it has been in hibernation all along.
It’s not as if Russia before the Bolsheviks were saints.
At least that's what the US State Dept. would have you believe....there's more than a few holes in that narrative though, starting with who controlled access to the building the snipers used.
For shooting random people without warning as is the stated policy? Well, yeah, I would condemn them.
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Same plan, same effectiveness, same evil.
Truth can destroy it, if we can get anybody to hear it. Or we rinse, repeat history.
The only Russkie narrative I'm aware of consists of using photos of snipers on a rooftop that wasn't even of a building in the same country, along with a bunch of made up BS, which I suspect you will now share with us uncritically straight from an anti-American Russian propaganda website.
Looking down from orbit, I see that Russia has invaded Kazakhstan,
Consider the sources when you are reading that the govt is shooting “ random people” in the midst of what is being video’d as graphic mob violence.
It’s Kazakhstan. Not Marquess of Queensberry rules. Genghis Khan rules.
Maybe not a good day for random citizens to go shopping and sightseeing, or sharing cookies from Victoria Nuland.
There’s no need to go any further than Ukraine’s own official “investigation” of the event, (or better yet ask some of the relatives of the Heavenly 100 what they think) to see the holes in the simplistic ‘Yanukovich did it’ narrative.
Indeed, rinse and repeat without good Americans, British, Canadians, Aussies, South Africans, etc. around to save the Free World this time, as they held it since the last such Ministry , then tired of Liberty, losing their memory of its Virtues.
Nah, he's the Night King.
The new army is bound to fail as they have inadequate diversity training.....
In the 80s Fulda Gap days, the Russian army was around 5 million. Today it is 280,000. If anything it is ridiculously small for the size of the country facing constant challenges at it’s own border.
But neocons have to ponificate about something.
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