Now taking bets: this will be a replay of the failed attempted colour revolutions in Belarus, and the pathetic three-day attack on S.Ossetia, starting on 8/08/08, in Georgia, both promptly crushed by Russian action.
The speculation is that this latest futile effort to attack Russia on itâs own borders is a response from the US deep-state to the Kremlinâs current ultimatum to the Swamp over the Ukraine, and NATO expansion right up to Russian borders.
Seeing that NATO/the Swamp have already stated that they will not be taking military action to support their proteges in these borderlands, and further considering the unadmitted but entirely obvious condition of the US as a rapidly failing, moribund empire, I donât expect the unrest in Kazakhstan to have any more success in Washingtonâs frantic efforts to turn the unturnable tide. Though if the attempt ends with getting rid of the vile thug-in-charge in Astana, Nazarbayev, and some degree of democratisation, that will be a net plus.
Obviously itâs not something that Russia in its current determined mood is going to fail to deal with decisively. Quite possibly involving help from China too, since Kazakhstan is so central to the rising, Washington-loathed BRI project.
The Swampies really are scraping their non-functioning âglobal hegemonâ barrel right nowâŚ
Retrieving somewhat their spectacular face-plants over the covid scam, Saker and bMoA are both usefully informative on whatâs really going on in Kazakhstan, as contrasted to the Western mediawhoresâ confused response, their coordinated line having not yet been sorted out for them by their keepers.
PS: âSixth Senseâ is a trifle over-optimistic in saying that the uprising has âoverthrownâ the government. I doubt that that is going to happen, especially now that OSCE troops are already there supporting the government: Russia moving swiftly, with well-prepared forces all ready to go, since their intelligence services were already well aware of the attempted trouble-making in Kazakhstan before it erupted: The usual technique, as seen in - for example - Syria, where demonstrations of legitimate grievances amongst protesting ordinary citizens are infiltrated and taken over by mercenary/religious-loony armed proxies of the Anglozionist empire, and deliberately turned lethally violent. Failed in Syria, Belarus, Georgia, etc., leaving the opponents of the Anglozionists stronger than before. But still they attempt the method, having nothing else left in their arsenal.
PPS: Sorry, geriatric brain-fog: when I wrote OSCE above I meant CSTO.
Protesters own the airport and the government have resigned according to CNN.
(CNN were running a piece of video this morning of which they said were Russian paratroops arriving in Khazakhstan by plane but Iâm buggered if I can find it now - seems to have vanished).
The word I hear from actually credible analysts - not CNN - including Colonel Cassad, is that Russian troops hold the airport, with Kazakh troops, and Tokayev is broadcasting that the âforeign organised terroristsâ are in the process of being crushed. Nazarbayev seems to have disappeared, and is thought to be in Russia. Xi Jinping has spoken to Tokayev by phone with an exceptionally strong message of current and continuing support. (Official Chinese announcement)
Iâd guesstimate that this is another totally ballsed-up failed scam by the Swamp and underlings. I expect it to come clear that this is the real story.
Nazarbayev was inclined to play the field with anyone who might be an ally - or an âallyâ - Tokayev is much more Russia/China/BRI/SCO oriented. A realist, in other words. As the commentators are pointing out: US incompetence and delusionality leaves its opponents stronger and benefitted by their feck-ups.
Tokayev was born in '53, Nazarbayev is my age. Count him as finally no longer clinging on even to partial power, as he was before the attempted colour revolution.
Ok, Iâll give a different take on this:
It doesnât seem to be another CIA job. What analysts like MOA or Sakar or Murray never mention is the covid factor (I wonder whyâŚ). Over the last few years the global economy has been completely trashed by all the covid nonsense. In Kazakhstan the lunatics who run the country have imposed lockdowns, curfews, and more recently mandatory vaccinations.
More than 70% of the population of Kazakhstan are muslim, a group that do not take lightly to having crap stuck in their arm. I would hazard thatâs what the recent violence is about.
Kazakhstan is a huge, energy rich country which has always maintained close ties to Russia (which sent in troops to shoot all the protestors). All this stuff about high fuel prices is true, but has been completely manufactured by the government. Same with the shortage of food supplies. A similar scenario is happening in Australia, and is coming to Europe and the Americas.
Itâs all about making the plebs toe the line with the globalist agenda.
Getting back to MOA, Sakar and Murray, et al, the term 'âboiling frogsâ comes to mind (or more likely controlled opposition idiots).
As an appendage to this I will repeat what I posted a few months back:
people are now starting to take up arms against the covid restrictions. This started a week or so ago in the French overseas territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique, in the CaribbeanâŚ
Police fired upon as Covid strife persists in Guadeloupe, Martinique
The situation remains tense in the French overseas territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique where unrest in response to coronavirus restrictions persists.
Those nice people in the French government have now sent in Special Forces to quell the rioting.
Also, this week, a similar situation of armed riots against covid restrictions has broken out in the Soloman Islands, way out in the Pacific yet still a dependency of Australia. As per, those nice people in the Australian government have also sent in Special Forces to quell the riotsâŚ
SOLOMON ISLANDS LOCKDOWN RIOTERS SET FIRE TO GOVT BUILDINGS
These are small island territories, yet it gave an indication of where this is going. Kazakhstan has been the first country to go into armed insurrection against the covid tyranny.
I can see a similar thing happening in Europe sometime soon. Thereâs been so many massive demonstrations that I canât keep up with them all.
Iâll just add that the lunatics who run Austria were going to bring in mandatory vaccinations in February. Austria is a relatively small country, with a population of just 10 million. Record numbers of people have been out on the streets demonstrating in Austria, and now the lunatics who run the place have backed down.
In Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday blasted his governmentâs approval of Pfizer COVID shots for 5-to-11-year-olds and insisted he would not allow his 11-year-old daughter to be vaccinated.
You wanna take a bet? Sometime soon Bolsonaro will either be overthrown, assassinated or will die in mysterious circumstances.
Itâs happened to about eight other world leaders during the covid stuff.
Likely enough, R. I canât believe that the covid lunacy has had no impact in Kazakhstan. I guess it will come out soon enough, but obviously not through commentators whoâve let themselves be suckered by the official covid spiel, such as Saker, b or Craig. I suppose that there will be the standard wilful blindness there.
Other commentators, though, seem to concur about the general picture - what we might call the Syria Syndrome: find a place where there are genuine peoplesâ protests going on over real grievances, and seed them with armed mercenaries, to turn things violent. There seem to be signs of that familiar pattern in Kazakhstan. Iâm assuming that thatâs why Russia is taking its characteristic decisive action, when Russian intelligence - which seems to me to be much more what itâs name suggests than the Western equivalents - tells the Kremlin people: âThis is the real thing; attempted colour revolution.â
This livestream discussion between the two Alexes at The Duran throws further light on the Kazakhstan rising. The Duran guys also have the advantage that theyâre firmly on the sceptic side of the controversy over the covid scam - they call it jokingly: âthe coofâ - 
- and theyâre also jokingly careful on speaking about Xinjiang and matters Uighur, because theyâre aware of the need to avoid triggering YTâs censorship algorithms.
The first forty-five minutes of the livestream deals with Kazakhstan, with the last five minutes being informative about Western jiggery-pokery in the fossil-energy business there, particularly through Chevron; and the inevitability of steeply rising energy prices everywhere - including here - together with rising food prices: Further indicators - to my mind - of the steady tightening of screws, as the Long Descent gets into its stride.
Sure, the soaring inflation is a direct result of the attempted covid scam, and the wholly idiotic policy responses to it; but that scam itself is a result of the gicsâ understanding that everything will be in shorter supply in the near future than weâve been used to, and that therefore itâs necessary, from the gic viewpoint, to trigger a global coup dâetat attempt, to get the plebs under much tighter control, whilst managing the depredations of the Descent: We take the hits, the gics remain in their state of being criminally, filthy over-rich, and therefore over-powerful. Thatâs the strategic thinking thatâs getting aired in the gicsâ policy fora, such as the WEF.
What with these realities being in the air, and Kazakhstanâs substantial energy-business endowments - fossil hydrocarbons AND uranium! - together with the Anglozionist empireâs abiding obsession with causing trouble for Russia and China in their home region, especially anything that might hinder the steady growth of BRI, the attempted colour revolution in Kazakhstan must have seemed like a good move to the idiot denizens of the DC Swamp.
Jim Kunstler published his Friday âClusterfuck Nationâ post yesterday, which bears also on this strategic problem of the Long Descent. Sort of diagonally relevant to whatâs going on in Kazakhstan, particularly with itâs energy endowments; energy supply being the absolute be-all and end-all of maintaining a hitech industrial society. The steady crushing down of global energy supply, after all, is one of the key drivers of the Long Descent. Itâs rightly called âthe master resourceâ. Nothing in any economy happens without the energy supplies to drive it. And we have constructed a global economy in recent decades which depends absolutely on something which itâs just not going to have any longer: oodles of cheap, easy-get energy to drive on the whole extravagant, fundamentally unsustainable techie-techie industrial startrek dream.
Striking at âRussiaâs soft underbellyâ (Oh really! Tell that to the Russian airborne battalionsâŚ) AND grabbing control of yet more disappearing hydrocarbons and uranium must have seemed a like a no-brainer to the no-brainers of Washington stink-tankeryland.
Fingers burnt again, suckers! Meet the Shaolin martial-arts concept of âiron-bellyâ? 
Craig M has his usual disgruntled take on all things Russian. All down to corruption-driven shortages and ham-fisted management, no outside interference, he reckons. Exhibiting his usual broad streak of naivety. Odd quality for ambassador material; perhaps why he didnât do too well at it, from the ukstate viewpoint:
Havenât been following this story closely but bits and bobs are turning up on Alex Thomsonâs Telegram which is worth a look if you use that platform. Much of this is in accordance with the lines of thought outlined by @RhisiartGwilym and there is some suggestion that convicts were released to bolster the protests. Quite who would be able to facilitate that I have no idea.
Hereâs a view worth considering.
I subscribe to that Substack and will be interested to look at the BTL, but short of time right now. I somehow donât think this is the spin that will be highlighted by WaPo, NYT, BBC, Reuters and the Graun (aka the Five Lies).
The bafflement returns: Why would Russia follow the WHO diktats, when itâs obvious to any unhypnotised observer that theyâre insane - or sinister? Has their establishment been sucked into the mass-hypnosis formation too?
And - if we can just get past all the deluded Western voices who think they know lots of things about China (which just ainât so) - what are Xi and the CCP really up to? Have a critical mass of them been sucked into the mass as well?
You can see easily enough why the Kazakh establishment would buy into the covid scam, being both as hypnotisable as anyone else, and deeply corrupt grafters with it: both potent drives in play together (which applies, mutatis mutandis to Western countries too). But I had the impression that both the Russian and the Chinese ruling establishments were at least making a serious effort to stamp out corruption. So - just fully hypnotised too, then?
And these graphs that Edward puts up: how reliable? What is the certainty that the âcovid deathsâ shown really are at this level, or just being massaged to look so high, as is happening in the West? How does that square with the widely-touted 99.9something percent survival rate, which now seems to be universally admitted to be true?
Back to the bafflement-waitânâsee-board againâŚ!
What canât be in any doubt, though, when you think of the lightning -fast deployment of CSTO (read Russian) troops to Kazakhstan, and Xiâs fulsome phone message of complete support to Tokayev, is that both the Russian and the Chinese establishments take the risk of colour revolution in their neighbour state with utmost seriousness. Blind to the covid madness, but at the same time completely clear-eyed to the dirty geo-politics of the âhegemonâ? Is that it? And how and when do we get some bona-fide, trustworthy reportage out of Kazakhstan itself, to see what the answer might be? Whenever it chooses to come, I suppose: wait and seeâŚ
bMoA retrieves his tarnished, covid-conned reputation rather well with his latest piece on Kazakhstan. The btl inputs also do good work for MoAâs reputation: lively, intelligent, informed, wide-ranging. Bernhardâs Bollocks-Beating Bar operating at its best:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/01/mysteries-of-the-failed-rebellion-in-kazakhstan.html#more
This springs to mindâŚ
âThe Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one overridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.â Fletcher Prouty (1992)
Itâs very difficult to find out whatâs actually going on.
The internet has been blacked-out in Kazakhstan.
Apparently, the last straw was when people were blocked from their bank account when they didnât have the jabs.
Kazakhstan has been as manic as Australia when it comes to the covid lunacy.
Again, itâs difficult to tell, but if this was a colour revolution wouldnât they all be waving American flags and putting up images of the âGoddess of Democracyâ? And again again, Kazakhstan has a close security treaty with Moscow. The loons in Washington and London know this.
My gut feeling remains that this was a reaction to the covid nonsense.