It is quite possible that the people of Central Asia were also shocked by the brutal Russian invasion of the Ukraine and the ongoing war by the megalomaniac last czar and war criminal Putin the Terrible!
"The five Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan are intertwined with Russia through their geography and history. But the war in Ukraine has changed this relationship. This essay characterizes public opinion and the political and economic incentives across these nations as they court attention from the West and from China. And it reminds us that US policies in Europe reverberate across the globe. ...
Putin himself has adopted supposed Eurasian values as Russia’s ideological counter to supposed Western values. His initial grievance with Ukraine was triggered by Ukraine’s decision to turn away from Putin’s Eurasian Economic Community toward a European Union (EU) relationship. ...
Yet the Central Asian states are consequential both in terms of Russia’s prosecution of the war and its potential aftermath. A massive area nestled between Russia and China, the five countries—Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan—share a long history during and post–Soviet rule. But they also differ significantly among themselves and present important challenges to Moscow, their neighbors, and the West. ...
the vast influx of more than a million Russians—mostly conscript-aged men—who entered Kazakhstan after September 2022 to avoid being drafted to fight in Ukraine, as well the many thousands of others who have entered the other four Central Asian states. ...
All [five countries] are walking a fine line in their relations with Moscow; expanding relations with China as well as other neighbors, the Middle East, and the West; assessing public opinion within their own countries; and in various degrees, supporting, opposing, and/or simply distancing themselves from the war itself. ..."
Putin himself has adopted supposed Eurasian values as Russia’s ideological counter to supposed Western values. His initial grievance with Ukraine was triggered by Ukraine’s decision to turn away from Putin’s Eurasian Economic Community toward a European Union (EU) relationship. ...
Yet the Central Asian states are consequential both in terms of Russia’s prosecution of the war and its potential aftermath. A massive area nestled between Russia and China, the five countries—Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan—share a long history during and post–Soviet rule. But they also differ significantly among themselves and present important challenges to Moscow, their neighbors, and the West. ...
the vast influx of more than a million Russians—mostly conscript-aged men—who entered Kazakhstan after September 2022 to avoid being drafted to fight in Ukraine, as well the many thousands of others who have entered the other four Central Asian states. ...
All [five countries] are walking a fine line in their relations with Moscow; expanding relations with China as well as other neighbors, the Middle East, and the West; assessing public opinion within their own countries; and in various degrees, supporting, opposing, and/or simply distancing themselves from the war itself. ..."
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