Russia has drawn a red line for "NATO's eastward expansion."

Comprehensive compilation Jia Xiaojing

On January 2, 2021, protests against rising oil prices took place on the streets of Kazakhstan, which quickly turned into violent clashes. President Tokayev said that "the violent protests were launched by a group of terrorists trained abroad" and asked for the support of the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization.

His appeal was quickly echoed by the chairman of the CIAN organization, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan, who promised to send peacekeeping troops to Kazakhstan to stabilize the situation in the country.

The US "Dialogue" news network said that on the issue of Kazakhstan, Russian President Putin "gave a decisive response." A force of 3,000 people quickly appeared in the conflict zone to address "a serious threat to the security, stability and territorial integrity of the country".

The United States has a lot of criticism of this. U.S. Secretary of State Blinken believes that Kazakhstan is "luring wolves into the house."

In the view of the Washington Post, the conflict in Kazakhstan is a "close hand-to-hand combat" between the United States and Russia in geopolitics. Earlier, Putin asked Western countries to take action to ensure that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization does not expand further eastward, including allowing Ukraine to become a member of it.

"We want to keep ourselves safe." Putin said, "To put it bluntly: NATO cannot expand eastward any longer." Is there anything unclear here? Are we deploying missiles near the U.S. border? No, it was the United States that came to us with missiles, and they had arrived at our doorstep. ”

Putin said Russia cannot live in the expectation that the threat posed by the West's deployment of weapons in Ukraine is looming. "The West is supplying Ukraine with weapons, which could encourage Ukrainian hawkish forces to try to seize separatist regions by force." He said.

The "war" of NATO's eastward expansion does not seem to be concentrated on this one point in Ukraine. The violent conflict in Kazakhstan is seen as adding fuel to nato's eastward expansion, which is stalemated by Russia and the United States. White House spokesman Price previously said the United States would not consider Russia's proposal to legally ban NATO's eastward expansion and "did not even intend to discuss the idea."

"We are adamantly opposed to Moscow's security proposals, which simply do not work for the United States." "We will not allow anyone to attack NATO's 'open door policy', Price said. The policy has been at the heart of NATO. ”

France's 24 television station said that the message behind the CSA's support to Kazakhstan was that "I am cleaning up my own mess."

"This gives the impression that all Caucasian countries are intervening, not just Russia." Eurasian expert David Tertri said the Russian-led organization sending ground troops made it clear that "I am responsible on my turf."

Source: China Youth Daily client