EDITORIAL. By intervening militarily in Kazakhstan, Russia is consolidating its position vis-à-vis China and the United States at a critical time.
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By Luc de Barchent
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Lhe first geopolitical convulsion of the year 2022 arose from an unexpected place: Kazakhstan, a huge steppe country, bordering Russia and China, with a subsoil rich in hydrocarbons and minerals. A popular protest against the rise in the price of energy and the corruption of the leaders degenerated into riots leaving more than 160 dead then in a crisis of regime and, finally, in a fit of international fever, with the sending of paratroopers by Moscow and his allies to consolidate the local satrap.
Vladimir Poutine struck hard and fast because the effervescence in his neighbor to the south is fraught with dangers for him. It exposes the fragility of the “glacis” of authoritarian regimes that it erects around Russia to protect itself as best they can from democratic contagion …
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