position. Sure, he would like to do that. But actually, he's bitten off more than he can chew in Ukraine. He has to find a way to reduce his forced posture on Ukraine's eastern border. And so he wants to use this situation in Kazakhstan and sending the CSTO into Kazakhstan as a way to kind of tell his domestic audience that let's focus on this story because things are getting too hot. I'm not sure. That's kind of how I've interpreted it. That's the second sort of conspiracy. Okay. Well, I think we should row back on the conspiracy theories. And I think they're very much telling, I think in Central Asia, people often feel frustrated that they're not seen as independent actors, but everything is about what Russia is doing or China is doing or America is doing. But people in Central Asia are capable of acting by themselves. They don't need Russia to instigate things necessarily. Now, having said that, I'm saying row back on the conspiracy theories in the sense of it doesn't seem that (28/39)
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