Professor Shen Xu
Earlier this month, large-scale riots broke out in Kazakhstan, with more than 20,000 rioters in Almaty alone, launching six waves of organized attacks.
On January 15, the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan announced that the riots that had killed 225 people, including civilians, militants involved in the attack, and 19 police and military personnel. Across the country, riots injured 4,578 people, 3,393 of whom were members of the powerful ministry. According to Kazakh President Tokayev on January 11, the economic damage caused by terrorists in Kazakhstan may amount to 3 billion US dollars.
This violent terrorist incident with a complex domestic and international background and a strong "color revolution" not only caused a sudden wave in the relatively calm Central Asian region after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, but also made Kazakhstan face heinous upheavals. Fortunately, Kazakh President Tokayev rushed to the Russian-led CSTA for help, which decisively dispatched peacekeeping forces and quickly controlled and quelled the unrest with thunder.
However, in the course of the whole incident, the United States jumped out unsurprisingly, issued some absurd remarks that smacked itself in the face, and made unreasonable accusations against Russia and Kazakhstan, once again showing the hegemonic face of the United States, and also allowing the world to once again "appreciate" the shamelessness and arrogance of the United States:
At a press conference on January 7, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken first criticized the Kazakh government's countermeasures, saying: "The Kazakh government has the ability to properly handle the protests and respect the rights of protesters while maintaining law and order." It then pointed the finger at Russia, claiming that Moscow's leadership in making joint security measures to quell the violence may have "ulterior motives.". "I think one of the lessons of recent history is that once Russians are in their homes, it's sometimes hard to drive them away," he added.
In an interview with ABC on January 9, Blinken claimed that he was "firmly opposed" to the Kazakh government's approval of law enforcement officers to "open fire without warning" because, given the current circumstances, the "shooting order" was "wrong and should be revoked." He further explained: "Kazakhstan has the ability to maintain law and order and to preserve State institutions, but it needs to take a way that respects peaceful protesters and addresses the economic and political concerns of those people." ”
On the same day, when Blinken participated in CNN's "State of the Union Address" program, he once again got involved in the Issue of Kazakhstan. In addition to condemning the "shooting order" issued by Kazakhstan, he remained angry at the country's request for intensive peacekeeping. Claims "We really have questions about this, why do they feel the need to request a Russian-led peacekeeping force?" "We ask for clarification on this." ”
Today, the unrest in Kazakhstan has basically settled, and the "color revolution" is stillborn. Looking back now, Blinken's series of logically confused, unjustifiable, and vulnerable accusations and remarks have become self-insulting jokes, at least in the following ways:
First, while Blinken blamed Russia and Kazakhstan, the Number of COVID-19 infections in the United States was "exploding" as the Omicron raged. On January 9, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States was more than 61 million, and the cumulative number of deaths was nearly 860,000. Compared with the previous day's data, the number of new confirmed cases in the United States reached 340,000. In the face of such a serious domestic epidemic, Blinken still has the effort and the heart to "worry" - to point fingers at the internal affairs of a sovereign country 18,000 miles away from the United States, and to issue a series of familiar, meaningless but domineering and arrogant clichés. It seems that the United States, which is running wild on the road of hegemonism, will never lose its "identity" as a "world policeman" who booed itself, no matter how unbearable and bad this "identity" is in the eyes of the world.
Second, using the "lessons of modern history," the accusations and worries about Russia that "once they enter the house, it is sometimes difficult to drive them away" are not only pale and weak, but also a big joke and irony. Because the United States has not been a country for too long, the lessons left by the United States to the world in recent history are also known to the world. In modern history, there are countless more, leaving countless excuses, no wonder the Russian Foreign Ministry has also unceremoniously retorted: "Since Blinken is so familiar with the lessons of history, this cannot help but make people think that once the Americans enter the house, you are not robbed or raped, but it is difficult to survive."
The statement also mentioned Native Americans, Koreans, Vietnamese and Syrians. Blinken should be clear that 77 years after the end of World War II, how many U.S. military bases and troops are still stationed in Europe? In Asia, it is not clear how many years the US military has entered Japan and South Korea and withdrawn. In 2001, the United States launched the Afghan war in the name of counter-terrorism and quickly overthrew the Taliban regime, but after that, until August 2021, when all the US troops withdrew, the US troops in Afghanistan remained for 20 years; in 2003, the United States used the pretext of "possessing weapons of mass destruction" as an excuse to bypass the UN Security Council, disregarding the condemnation and opposition of China, Russia, France, Germany and the Arab League, brazenly launched the Iraq war and hanged Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, although the bottle of "washing powder" became the biggest joke. But the U.S. military has remained in Iraq for 8 years, and to this day, 3,000 U.S. soldiers remain in Iraq.
Thinking of these living examples, I wonder if Mr. Blinken will blush? At the same time, after the riots in Kazakhstan subsided, according to the Global Times, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a message on January 13 that the units of the security organization carrying out peacekeeping missions in Kazakhstan have begun to return to their respective stations on Russian transport aircraft in accordance with the plans formulated by the Peacekeeping Command and the Kazakh Ministry of Defense. Russian Defense Minister Shoigu also reported to President Vladimir Putin on the same day that the Russian Air force will dispatch 14 transport aircraft to assist the withdrawal of personnel and equipment of peacekeeping forces from Armenia, Tajikistan and Belarus from Kazakhstan on the same day. The peacekeepers plan to complete all withdrawals on the 19th. The Russian army withdrew from Kazakhstan as scheduled, and it is not known whether Blinken felt punched in the face.
Third, Blinken demanded that Kazakhstan "respect the rights of protesters" and that Kazakhstan "clarify" its request to the CSC for military peacekeeping. It's even more ridiculous and absurd.
First, are the rights of black Americans respected? Martin from black civil rights movement leader. Luther. King's "I Have a Dream" has been fighting for their rights for more than 100 years to this day, but the status of black people has not been fundamentally changed. In 2014, a poll by NBC and the Wall Street Journal showed that 79 percent of blacks surveyed said the U.S. was still rife with discrimination, and as many as 58 percent of black respondents said race relations in the United States were "poor" or "extremely poor," and nearly 100 blacks were killed by police each year. Less than eight months after the U.S. police knelt to kill Freud, a black African-American man, less than eight months ago, screams of "I can't breathe" were still in my ears.
In addition, on January 6 last year, thousands of people in the United States forcibly broke into the U.S. Capitol building because they were dissatisfied with the results of the presidential election, and the riots on Capitol Hill killed five people, including one Congressional police officer, and injured about 140 law enforcement officers. The protesters, known as thugs, have been charged by the federal government with more than 700 people in more than 45 states on suspicion of involvement in the riots. What is the logic of the United States demanding "respect for the rights of protesters" for the riots in Kazakhstan?
Second, the request for Kazakhstan to request the CSC to send troops to peacekeeping "clarifies" the united states' consistent hegemony and ugly face. Mr. Blinken should answer that Kazakhstan, as a sovereign state and a member of the CSCE, asks for support from the CSCE when its national security is threatened. In 1999, NATO, headed by the United States, carried out indiscriminate bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days without declaring war; after entering the 21 st century, the United States launched the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq successively.
In short, the United States, which is addicted to hegemonism, has long become a gene and habit of directing the internal affairs of countries around the world and interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. The unreasonable accusations and criticisms of Kazakhstan and Russia by the United States around the incident of the riots in Kazakhstan are just one of countless cases. In fact, for the United States, which has a lot of bad deeds, the unreasonable accusations and remarks that the United States has long been accustomed to and tattered can only be self-insulting jokes; at the same time, we also believe that for Kazakhstan, the United States will never get the "explanations" and "clarifications" it wants.