Asiatic DESPOT putin is losing his empire, piece by piece. Kazakh troops will train in British military schools and learn English

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Kazakhs are very well aware that they're on Kremlin's "shopping list".
Kudos to Kazakhstan for waking up to Putin’s IMPERIALISTIC puppet show and teaming with the UK, real allies train for peace, not carpet-bomb civilians. Moscow’s tantrum only shows fear.

Putin, Pushkin, and the decline of the Russian empire – European Council on Foreign Relations

Behind Ukraine’s rejection of Russia’s revered poet is a much bigger story of imperial decay

ecfr.eu