Kazakhstan challenges Putin. What can it end

Diaan Francis editor of Canadian National Post, Senior Researcher atlantic Council I want to write more about an important geopolitical event in the war against Russia, which was missed by leading media in January to suppress a cruel uprising organized by a former dictator. However, in June, President of Kazakhstan declared Russian television in the presence of Putin sitting with him that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was unjustified.

One outraged Russian politician later warned that such disobedience can have Ukrainian -style consequences. Without frightening, the Kazakh leader was publicly suggested on July 4 to increase oil supply to Europe, and Moscow immediately closed the Kazakh Pipeline through the territory of Russia, which oil is being supplied to Europe. Kazakhstan became the third and largest former Soviet Republic, which openly challenged Putin.

Ukraine's attempt to do this in 2014 led to the invasion and now to the total war. Stomocratic street protests in Belarus in 2020 ended with the country's return to the former orbit. Now Kazakhstan, the largest and richest natural resources, is done by the state among the former Union republics. During the Cold War, all three republics had nuclear arsenals, but in 1992 they were all forced to sign a contract for non -proliferation of nuclear weapons and transfer their weapons to Russia.