Craig Murray: What Kazakhstan Isn't (At odds with Pepe, MoA)
Posted by sashimi on January 7, 2022, 11:27 am
7 January 2022
(quote) Knowledge of Kazakhstan in the West is extremely slim, particularly among western media, and many responses to events there have been wildly off-beam.
The narrative on the right is that Putin is looking to annex Kazakhstan, or at least the majority ethnic Russian areas in the north. This is utter nonsense.
The narrative on the left is that the CIA is attempting to instigate another colour revolution and put a puppet regime into Nur-Sultan (as the capital is called this week). This also is utter nonsense.
The lack of intellectual flexibility among western commentators entrapped in the confines of their own culture wars is a well-established feature of modern political society. Distorting a picture into this frame is not so easily detectable where the public have no idea what the picture normally looks like, as with Kazakhstan.
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The fuel price rises triggered protest, and once a population that had seen no outlet for its frustration viewed the chance to protest, then popular frustration erupted into popular dissent. However with no popular opposition leaders to direct it, this quickly became an incoherent boiling up of rage, resulting in destruction and looting.
So where do the CIA come in? They don't. They were trying to groom a banned opposition leader (whose name I recall as Kozlov, but that may be wrong) but then discovered he was not willing to be their puppet, and the scheme was abandoned under Trump. The CIA were as taken aback by events as everybody else, and they don't have any significant resources on the ground, or a Juan Gaido to jet in. (/quote) -- Cont'd https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/01/what-kazakhstan-isnt/
No matches to the words “head” or “chop” in Craig’s article…
"Quite extraordinary that Johnson told at least five lies in Parliament yesterday (used to be a resigning offence) and most of the media has not even bothered to report it, let alone with the fury it merits. This is the normalisation of lying. Same with corruption."
by ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret
Now, if that was the war criminal Alistair Campbell, that tweet would rival today's Russia-bashing speech by Mr Blinken for the most audacious example of hypocrisy of 2022. I don't think it's him though.
Is that where all the fuel is? :-) Perhaps. Perhaps this is coincidence-theory, that the first things taken in a coup are the TV stations and the airport and government buildings..
..and it was just coincidence that this was all the peaceful protesters could find on their GPS with the internet turned off !!
on January 7, 2022, 11:27 am