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Kazakhstan and the Limit of American Power - The American Conservative

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Kazakhstan is one of five largely Muslim former Soviet republics clustered north of Afghanistan. The latest toll is 164 dead and roughly 6,000 arrested, many supposedly foreign nationals. Geography and especially economics link Nur-Sultan to China. Relying on foreign nations for support demonstrated his government's weakness.

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Kazakhstan and the Limit of American Power - The American Conservative

When you represent the unipower, the essential nation, you rarely let a thought about other nations go unexpressed. So it is with the crisis in Kazakhstan, an authoritarian Central Asian state wracked by violence and now reliant on foreign troops.The State Department has had plenty to say, but so far nothing helpful. For instance, department spokesman Ned Price condemned the violence, called for “restraint” on all sides, and urged “a peaceful re…

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