Indeed, as once you have lined your pockets, you need a safe bolt hole to run too, where you will be allowed to keep and enjoy your illgotten. If the price of that is to contribute to the slagging off of your motherland, well so be it....
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They, most likely, are, as I’ve observed this same ‘bunching-up’ behavior in US forces (in actual combat) since the “Desert Storm” campaign. In my experience, such ‘bunching’ was presented to us as an habitual response to danger which is why we trained to not respond this way in combat. As such, observing this behavior in both US forces and their trainees indicates, to me, a lack of emphasis on some fundamentals of survival in contemporary combat training.
All the sons and daughters and cousins and brothers and wives and In-laws etc… of top party officials are rich as hell. Most own enormous assets through various shell companies. Its just now more low key since Xi took office. Not allowed to flaunt with Ferraris and post their flashy lifestyles on social media like Bo Xilai’s son.
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Damn, that was quick. Scarcely a week has passed they've already brought the unrest under control. It's like people are afraid to go out and make trouble when their president issues a shoot-to-kill.
The conspicuous timing of it all and the lightning fast response from Tokayev, esp. with the Russian aid does seem to lend credence to the assessment by SampanViking and others that this could be a leadership shakeup, while at the same time it presents an opportunity for Putin to demonstrate to the West and certainly NATO that Russia has her sphere of influence down tight, so that Russian can come at it from a POSITION OF STRENGTH in the upcoming talks.
That was very kind of you to say. Thank you
Damn, that was quick. Scarcely a week has passed they've already brought the unrest under control. It's like people are afraid to go out and make trouble when their president issues a shoot-to-kill.
The conspicuous timing of it all and the lightning fast response from Tokayev, esp. with the Russian aid does seem to lend credence to the assessment by SampanViking and others that this could be a leadership shakeup, while at the same time it presents an opportunity for Putin to demonstrate to the West and certainly NATO that Russia has her sphere of influence down tight, so that Russian can come at it from a POSITION OF STRENGTH in the upcoming talks.
For me though (as we wait for the fog and dust to clear to get a clearer overall picture) the biggest takeaway I have so far is to illustrate beyond doubt, the total falseness of the way previous Colour Revolutions have been presented.
The claim by the MSM and indeed Western Politicians, have been that these protest movements have been spontaneous and wholly grass roots and that the reporting has simply been timely and responsive.
Based however by what I have seen; especially to both general and specific events, primarily in the Ukraine and Syria, I have long held that these events are managed and co-ordinated to a quite extraordinary degree, with a vast array of players, on the ground, in the media and in Western Politics delivering an often evolving scripted narrative in relation to a series of very planned events or progressions. Especially visible when an event goes wrong but the reaction and narrative goes ahead anyway, despite it sounding utterly bizarre when placed against actual events. The 2018 incident in Douma being a case in point.
Now for the first time, we have seen what happens when there is a real spontaneous and grass roots protest with an unscripted action by local regime change forces. Now we have seen the total confusion and disarray in both media and political circles, where there was no script, no narrative and media terrified of saying anything about anyone, because they had no idea who "there side" were.
Instead we get Blinken showing once again just how out of his depth he is as Secretary of State making asinine comments about Russia responding to a treaty obligation in its military alliance structure.
Russia language is for all CIS countries to run the business and science efficiently.
the problem with Kazakh is there elite sold out all there business to foreign investors without considering the Russian interests.
Turkey has to make a choice . enhance investments further or lose current investments.
see Mexico example. look at size of Mexico-US trade. than role that hispanic population plays in US food/agriculture/construction/tourism/factories/energy. in fact more US factories and energy production moving to South near Mexico. despite Mexico/hispanic so much dominance in business. they have to accept English and US will dominant them.
Might sound harsh, but Russian culture/language in Central Asia is a national security danger for these (central asia) countries.
They have seen how Russia used the Russian-speaking populations in Ukraine to annex Crimea and create a frozen conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
The CA countries are alarmed by such development, which is why they try to quickly and forcibly promote their own language/culture.
Its the same problem that China has been facing for so many decades in SEA. ALL these countries have had their hands in blood to guard against the *possibility* of China using its diaspora to attack/influence them.
There is no solution to this for Russia. The more it intervenes and uses the protection of Russian speaking population as a pretext, the more its neighbours will try to remove Russian language/culture from their countries