[cartoon] The Kazakh tug of war.

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  1. As someone from the west who is extremely disillusioned, I can’t help but feel that Kazakhstan should go over to Russia. There is so much insanity in the west now that is refreshingly absent from Russia. I don’t see Russians teaching their youth that they have no sole claim to Russian land and that instead people from all over Aferica and Aisia are just as entitled to Russian land, resources, sport, media representation, history and women as them, or even more so as them. I don’t see Russians telling their people that their communities will somehow be much better when “vibrant” divversity is added despite all news from the USA, France, Sweden, UK proving the contrary.

    You can’t even talk about rase in the west. In Russia you can. In Scotland they’ll throw you in jail. In England the rainbow police kick down your door for saying women have a cervix or for singing Kung Fu Fighting in a bar, while ignoring grooming gangs for decades.

    I mean, Kazakhstan is diverrse enough as it is. No need to adopt the west’s infatuation and destructive dysfunctional love affair with Afericans and BAME. Poland, Hungary, Czechs… they’ve all been pressured to join in that ruinous love affair and are still extremely resented and mocked for having declined to partake. How long can they resist the pressure? Does Kazakhstan want to feel that pressure?

  2. Putin bad. Russian troops in Kazakhstan are bad.

    But the cartoon is kinda bs, since we barely have any idea who’s fighting who, or what’s even happening rn. Nazarbaev is gone (or is he?). Putin supported Tokaev (or did he?). Both the protest and the retaliation from the gov is extremely violent. It looks like a start of a civil war with all the gunfighting and explosions.

    I’ve seen faces of kazakh independent journalists and political immigrants – they are stupified. This is not how political protests used to go in Kazakhstan. Some of them say that someone took over the protest in Almaty, and turned it into a bloodbath.

    So, I don’t think Putin is trying to save a particular dictator here. I think, it’s closer to interventions of 2014 into Ukraine. He sees turmoil in a neighbouring country, he puts forces there. Fuck, we can only hope he’s reasonable enough not to go full Donbass here, and these troops will only serve as a leverage for negotiations with whoever comes on top in Kazakhstan.

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