Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev attend the 2022 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June.

 

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- When Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a ceremony to annex four partially Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine last week, he styled himself as the head of an anti-colonial movement defying Western hegemony.

 

But in the countries of Central Asia that Russia once counted as part of its empire, the holding of what Western governments have termed "sham" referendums on joining Russia in Ukraine's Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya regions has been met either with silence or a proclamation supporting a country's territorial integrity.

 

For Putin, there is a simple reason for this state of affairs -- fear of the sweeping Western-led sanctions that have plunged Russia and its citizens into isolation in the aftermath of Russia's unprovoked invasion.

 

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-annexation-ukraine-central-asia/32065306.html

 

 

 

And then you have SE Asia with Thailand's MCOT has decided that TASS should be given media rights and wishes to join as a team.

 

Moldova and the other countries are now calling out Putin on his missile attacks he has undertaken striking Civilian and infrastructure targets. While Belarus is now Joining with the Russian military.

 

Sadly, the way this is looking is more or less like how WW2 and WW1 all started in one degree or another, but then that is just my view.

Shades of Donbas! For some time now Russian nationalists have been accusing kazakhstan's government of being Nazis because they are oppressing the predominantly ethnic Russian population in the North.

China has made it explicitly clear that using Force against Kazakhstan is unacceptable. I don't think that the Russian confederation as presently constituted has much longer to live.