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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

It May Not Be A Wheel Coming Off But It's At Least A Wheel Nut

2022-02-27

[HotAir] Putin just got done rescuing President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev

...president of Kazakhstan...

from a serious uprising six weeks ago, sending Russian army formations to put down demonstrators in Almaty. With his invasion bogging down, Putin asked Tokayev for more troops to support the Ukraine invasion.

Not only did Tokayev refuse, he went further in refusing to recognize the "independent" states Putin set up in the Donbas.

Posted by:Mercutio

#5 Ron White: "He must have been absent on lug nut day..."

Posted by: ed in texas 2022-02-27 10:54

#4 I suspect Putin wishes to reconstitute imperial Russia, not the USSR, obliterating the old soviet republics as entities of their own.

Posted by: Alistaire Clunk8424 2022-02-27 10:35

#3 I read that Putin really needs Belorus, Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan (BURK) to recreate the power of the Soviet Union. He probably figured he had Belorus and Kazakhstan halfway conquered already as the leadership of both are in his pocket.

I suspect the leader of Kazakstan read the tea leaves when Putin invaded Russia and wanted no part of being a puppet state, even more so than he is.

Posted by: ruprecht 2022-02-27 09:24

#2 Next uprising the army formation will be backing the demonstrators.

Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-02-27 08:24

#1 OK, make that a "wingnut" rather than a wheelnut...

Posted by: Mercutio 2022-02-27 05:05

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