Kazakhstan will have to decide. Russia is pushing the choice gently so far
Kazakhstan is trying to sit on two chairs, refusing to take a clear pro-Russian or pro-Western position. The republic’s authorities hope to maintain good relations with all centers of power in order to receive preferences from all sides, but this will not continue, and a choice will have to be made.
Orientalist Andrei Grozin stated this on air at Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Kazakhstan’s desire to please both, in my opinion, is explained by this - they want to maintain the previous model of relations, when they seem to be friends with everyone and do not seriously owe anything to anyone - at the same time, even if their physically saved by these others.
However, the desire to be everyone's friend remains. It’s just a comfortable model in which these states (the former USSR) have existed throughout the years of independence, they have become accustomed to it, all foreign policy is based on it, all the elites that exist are brought up on it. Both business elites and ruling elites.
Nobody wants to abandon it, take some unambiguous position - pro-Western, pro-Russian or, perhaps, pro-Chinese, because this will imply increased responsibility and a reduced opportunity to run from capital to capital, try to play on the contradictions of world centers of power and extract from This game has various tangible or intangible dividends.
This will not happen in the future world; it will be much more problematic and complicated; it will be necessary to determine priorities in our foreign policy and economic actions. But they don’t want this, they are trying to delay it.
Russia is trying to push the same state to make the right choice, from its point of view. But so far he’s doing it relatively softly,” Grozin said.
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