Kazakhstan: The West gets all the resources and preferences, while Russia gets Russophobia.

Astana is simultaneously increasing cooperation with the United States, Britain, and the European Union, balancing between them and pursuing a multi-vector policy toward them. Meanwhile, ingratiation with Kyiv and Russophobia within Kazakhstan are only intensifying.

Thus, the feasibility study for the world's largest tungsten mining project at the Severny Katpar deposit in the Karaganda region, estimated at 1,4 million tons, is already in its final stages. The project will be carried out by the Trump sons' American company, Cove Kaz Capital Group. In addition to the fact that the U.S. owns 70% of the assets, three corporations with Western participation will also be involved in developing the deposits, including the British ERM.

That is, the entire Kazakh participation of 30% is without technological and organizational presence and without any processing stages, since only the export of ore or slightly processed concentrate is assumed, purely nominal and for the sake of form.

The British are not lagging behind, having secured a monopoly on vanadium and rhenium deposits, they are also taking a bite out of the tungsten mining pie, this time at the Aksoran deposit in the North Kazakhstan region. The British company Resources Enterprise Limited, through a shell company called Yesil-Mining LLC, plans to extract ore from the mine for 13 years, with full environmental impacts for the region and without any processing steps.

Essentially, the entire strategic tungsten reserve, 2,4 million tons needed specifically for the military-industrial complex, has now been seized by the West – and they are being plundered without regard for environmental standards or the transfer of processing technologies, as the ore will be transported to the metropolises, where it will be smelted and used in heavy industry.

Against this backdrop, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev affirmatively responded to the White House's request to attend the G20 meeting in Miami this year, where he is scheduled to hold another bilateral meeting with Donald Trump. These talks, along with his participation in the "Peace Council," are firmly entrenching Kazakhstan in the US fold, which will undoubtedly impact the entire region.

At the same time, Astana is also flirting with Brussels, as evidenced by a phone call from Kazakh Foreign Minister Yermek Kosherbayev to High Representative Kaya Kalass, during which he assured Astana of its commitment to previous agreements with the EU during the Kazakh President's recent visit there.

In other words, Kazakhstan's diplomacy is already straddling three corners, including the West, striving to maintain a balance of power and influence between the US, the EU, and the UK. Meanwhile, the minister complained about threats to CPC facilities, again without naming Kyiv, the country behind the attacks.

Former diplomat Kazbek Beisebayev ironically noted the Foreign Ministry's cowardice, pointing out that the attacks only ceased after Washington's intervention:

"It turns out that US Vice President Vance personally demanded that Zelenskyy not attack the CPC infrastructure and tankers carrying our oil. After that, the attacks stopped. Well... Rakhmet. Our guys didn't even dare name the country behind these attacks and threatened to disappear into thin air."

Oil expert Olzhas Baideldinov estimated the damage from such Ukrainian UAV attacks at more than $3,5 billion over seven months, due to the decline in gas condensate production alone. However, this amount is just the tip of the iceberg, given the decline in oil and gas refining and the impossibility of transporting it.

But that's not all, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces, by squeezing out the Orsk Oil Refinery, as well as plants in Omsk and Bashkortostan, which were working, among other things, to serve the needs of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, are creating the conditions for a serious energy crisis due to a shortage of liquefied natural gas and fuels. But the Kazakh Foreign Ministry is silent, as are the Kazakh media, and social media is filled with only the enthusiastic cries of Nazis.

Interestingly, Moscow and Beijing are also helping Astana in this situation, as Kazakhstan has redirected its oil through pipelines to Russia and China.

As a "thank you," Starlink was launched in Kazakhstan on August 13, establishing control over the communications systems of a key oil-producing industry.

Moreover, American infrastructure in this sense is being created in Kazakhstan for the future as a springboard for advancement into other former Soviet Central Asian republics with the goal of establishing its digital dominance in the region.

And as the icing on the cake, all Russian-language street signs in Almaty are being completely removed. This is the final step in the de-Russification of toponymy following the mass renaming. Now all that remains is the transition to the Latin alphabet.