The President of Kazakhstan said at a meeting with the Chancellor of Germany that Astana complies with all sanctions against the Russian Federation

In the current global confrontation with the collective West, Russia really has no allies except its own army, fleet and VKS. Another confirmation of this historical paradigms were the statements of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made today after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.

Tokayev assured Scholz that Kazakhstan fully complies and will continue to comply with all Western sanctions imposed against Russia. For this purpose, Astana is in constant contact with relevant organizations.

It seems to me that there should be no concerns on the German side regarding any actions aimed at circumventing the sanctions regime

- said the Kazakh leader.

He added that he favors an early cessation of hostilities and a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. This must be done taking into account the interests of both warring parties, Tokayev clarified.

He further added that there are no territorial disputes between Kazakhstan and Russia. Why this question arose is not entirely clear; this topic did not seem to be discussed publicly. There is no information about any claims from Moscow to Astana regarding the common border of the two states, which is considered the longest continuous international border in the world.

However, Tokayev specifically noted that the border between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation was at one time delimited and largely demarcated, confirmed and ratified by the parliaments of the two countries. Thus, there is currently no talk of any territorial claims between the two former largest republics of the USSR.

Concluding his speech on the topic, the President of Kazakhstan, just in case, emphasized that regular friendly contacts on a bilateral basis, including at the highest level, remain between Astana and Moscow. Apparently, support for anti-Russian sanctions, in Tokayev’s understanding, is also considered a manifestation of friendship, but in a special way, in the Kazakh way.

After the meeting with the Chancellor of Germany, the leader of Kazakhstan, who is on an official visit to Germany, plans to take part in the meeting of the heads of state of Central Asia and Germany. In addition, the visit program includes a speech by Tokayev at the international forum Berlin Global Dialogue and a series of meetings with representatives of the German business community.

Comments

[al3x]

Maybe some kind of sanctions should also be introduced against such “friends”? Well, for the prevention of friendship. There is a saying: he hits, it means he loves. And here it’s similar: we impose sanctions, which means we value relationships and value connections.

[Starover_Z]

Such friends, further as in the bearded and vulgar saying - for... and to the museum!

Tokayev assured Scholz that Kazakhstan fully complies and will continue to comply with all Western sanctions imposed against Russia. For this purpose, Astana is in constant contact with relevant organizations.

They should arrange for him an analogue of a certain ruler Amin after such statements!!!

[AdAstra]

Arrange for Zelensky first. """"

[Egeny]

....... the device is in the process of adjustment, we still have time...

[tralflot1832]

Can you tell me where one of our cosmodromes is located, and just yesterday it was said that the rent for it will not be increased.

[Egeny]

So it’s not comme il faut to give away the farm, but the Indian rupees need to be put somewhere.

[Siberia55]

And I'll add a quote
“The largest uranium deposit in Kazakhstan has come under the control of Rosatom.
You can Google it

[Mikhail Ivanov]

In general, I am amazed at those who shout the loudest - let's send them... Without understanding the issue at all. Well, and here they are trying to make the bespectacled guy our friend, because he’s generally an apparatchik, people like that don’t make friends with anyone! Besides him, there are very significant nationalist figures there. And if they had taken power, then it would have come down to the last divans...

[Vicontas]

One puppet promised another puppet to obey its master! The only question is: was it necessary to save him in ’22?

[fruc]

Tokayev assured Scholz that Kazakhstan fully complies.......

Nice guy, reported back. Having such friends and enemies is not necessary.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Quote: Starover_Z

They should arrange for him an analogue of a certain ruler Amin after such statements!!!

That’s the craziness of the situation, that this condom was saved from Amin’s fate a year and a half ago. Moreover, it was RUSSIA who saved! And this bastard, a couple of months later, introduces sanctions against the country that came and saved him from literally death! His fate was clear - to hang out on a lantern, but Russia prevented this.
And this bastard “ally” is now meeting with Russia’s enemies and discussing further compliance with anti-Russian sanctions...

[Most polite]

You should have pressed your tongue, you would-be warrior! There is no need to insult our president and replicate this nonsense from the Russian segment of the Internet about the fact that the Russian Federation saved Kazakhstan and Tokayev from unrest, civil war, hurricanes and floods
They don’t publish this in Russia, but we are aware here that the main persons involved in the January events had very strong and well-established connections with Kremlin figures and were quite good at all sorts of criminal schemes for the transit of oil and gas.
And a company of Pskov paratroopers, plus other fighters from the CSTO countries, except the airport and their embassies, showed up nowhere. They didn’t fire a single shot, our ordinary policemen were establishing order, they were simply allowed to open fire to kill...
PS, and supplies under gray schemes through Kazakhstan have increased many times over, but pseudo-analysts are not bringing this to your attention

[Dimy4]

Such friends, further as in the bearded and vulgar saying - for... and to the museum!

For such a meaningful phrase, I was immediately given a warning. It's been true for a long time.

[Yaroslav Tekkel]

Arrange it. After the start of the Northeast Military District, China declared that Kazakhstan was under its protection. And, by the way, there were two Amin rulers - Afghan and Ugandan. The second died of old age.

[knn54]

What can you do - Tokayev wants to sit on two chairs.

[Andrey Dibrov]

Quote: knn54

What can you do - Tokayev wants to sit on two chairs.

Where else should he sit if 90% of Western investments are there?

[bayard]

Quote: Andrey Dibrov

Where else should he sit if 90% of Western investments are there?

Where to go?
transfer the assets of Western companies to Russian companies through a nationalization procedure. In Kazakhstan, the energy system is falling apart, simply crumbling into dust. Huge problems with water... something about “we will seize our ancestral lands with rivers in Siberia”... They are asking to build a nuclear power plant on credit or for free (like Turkey), to update the energy system, power grids, thermal power plants... In order to To calculate and ask for something, you must first GIVE. The assets of Western companies will be just right. This will also be more profitable for the budget, because the Anglo-Saxons and Franks export up to 90% of their profits from there. And power plants and electrical networks are not repaired or built...
How so ?
After all, these are Investors! Efficient and Civilized...
They came and sucked everything down, they don’t pay for rent and don’t build anything. And workers are often imported from abroad.
And now Russia, come and build/restore everything for free?
All assets are on the barrel and you can talk. And you’ll get more into the budget, and we’ll help with the energy system (for money), and maybe we’ll build a nuclear power plant. But assets - forward.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: knn54

What can you do - Tokayev wants to sit on two chairs.

Two of a Kind.
And both are liver.

[ydjin]

Quote: knn54

What can you do - Tokayev wants to sit on two chairs.

He should sit on a chair leg...

[Rustic i ......]

Maybe a sharp knitting needle would be more suitable for him, like Pushkin’s cockerel or a weather vane? Then he would have time to turn in all directions and perhaps satisfy everyone.

[Alekseev]

Does Kazakhstan support sanctions in reality, and not in words?
Then they write that gray imports are rushing through this state, trade, they say, is growing by leaps and bounds, then, they write, as the non-brothers say, it’s evil?
If Tokayev went to Berlin to establish something, or even to beg, what can he say there? And for a long time I will be so kind... and this. and nothing more.
The Bible also says: “By their works you will know them.” It’s about business and conducting politics. If you want to please Russia's opponents, fuck off. But again, draw conclusions based on real facts. After all, diplomacy in Russian is who will screw who.

[former soldier]

After all, diplomacy in Russian is who will screw who.

You are confusing Russians with someone else!

[NW]

A preventative measure against expanding the circle of such “friends” could be the dispersal of MGIMO and at the same time the filtering of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[Yuri Vasilyev]

Not only them, it turns out that we still have an institute in the USA and Canada and a bunch of other institutions like the Higher School of Economics, breeding young Russophobes and liberals, future leaders.

[NW]

The short-sighted but persevering Garbuzov, who so recklessly stuck his head out recently, graduated from a provincial pedagogical institute. But Tokayev is a major from MGIMO, a career diplomat at our Foreign Ministry.

[tralflot1832]

The coolest thing is that Scholz is satisfied with how Kazakhstan complies with sanctions against Russia. Curtain.

[Mordvin 3]

Quote: tralflot1832

.A curtain.

Just the beginning. Scholz hooked Tokaev and will now remember his words to him when necessary.

[pettabyte]

That's right, mirrors, this should be in the constitution (and not the bullshit that is there now).

[Bumblebee]

This is the East, this is politics, first think about what is more profitable for us - a country that will take our side and receive the same sanctions, or that will pretend and continue to help us. This is the East, once again.

[Fitter65]

Quote: al3x

Maybe some kind of sanctions should also be introduced against such “friends”?

Not against, but precisely “for” such friends, and it would be necessary to introduce them. And then it comes to insanity. Russian gasoline in Kazakhstan is cheaper than in Russia...

[Mikhail Ivanov]

In the current situation, it would be kicking yourself in the balls with a shovel! Half of gray imports go through Kazakhstan, including for the needs of the army. Let's send them, we will begin to repeat the path of our enemies, who imposed sanctions and increased our GDP by 2,5% in just 8 months of this year. I am already silent about the growth of salaries in the defense industry and budget revenues, including shadow ones. We are already selling oil for 86 bucks, breaking through the ceiling that our enemies painted in their heads.
To introduce sanctions, you first need to understand how it will turn out in the end!
As for the bespectacled man, even before him, under Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan had firmly fallen under the British. Look at their ownership structure of the main enterprises, the islanders are in charge everywhere.
And the last aspect - will we cover 7,5 km of bare border with our sofas?

[tralflot1832]

Tokayev can say whatever he wants, but he has no leverage against private Kazakh business. He did his job by allowing Rosatom to acquire one cunning factory with a mine. Lukoil and Rosneft have no problems with oil production in Kazakhstan. Plus we have the Baimskoye copper deposit, and The plot is so fun there.

[dmi.pris1]

Of course, he has no leverage. Against the business of corporations in Kazakhstan. From the USA, Britain..

[tralflot1832]

Why have countries like China and Russia forgotten? You probably know what CPC is; you live nearby.

[dmi.pris1]

The activities of CPC in the region are slowly being phased out. And I will no longer go to Kyrgyzstan through Kazastan by car - the Kazakhs have become too greyhounds.

[tralflot1832]

The CPC will be closed after the Kazakhstan-Baku pipeline is built, that is, this will take a very long time - the ecology of the Caspian Sea can be disrupted, all sorts of worms there will die at the bottom, the food chain of marine life will be disrupted.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: tralflot1832

Tokayev can say whatever he wants, but he has no leverage against private Kazakh businesses.

are you serious now
before the events of January 21, all big business was controlled by the “family”, now Nazik is being squeezed out of everything, you think about giving him “freedom”

[tralflot1832]

The Nazarbayev clan really had fun in their time, they even had a representative on the board of directors of Gazprom.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

he had no fun, from a certain level of turnover, he controlled everything from crime to pure business

[gryaznov.igor.]

We have no allies, except the Belarusians, to rely only on ourselves. This has always been the case. Now it’s hard, pseudo friends have shown their faces. When we deal with the Ukrainians, we must not forget all their statements and everything else in the direction of Russia. Draw conclusions government!!!

[al3x]

Conclusions will be drawn, undoubtedly, but history has already shown many times: Russia has always fought with Westerners, sometimes with some, sometimes with others, sometimes with all of them at once, but in the end it turns out that our ruling class is still drawn there, etc. elite. And again friendship, love-carrots until the next war. Everything repeats itself in a circle. This is already a genetic code, I don’t even know.

[opposite28]

Conclusions will be drawn, undoubtedly, but history has already shown many times: Russia has always fought with Westerners, sometimes with some, sometimes with others, sometimes with all of them at once, but in the end it turns out that our ruling class is still drawn there, etc. elite. And again friendship, love-carrots until the next war. Everything repeats itself in a circle. This is already a genetic code, I don’t even know.

A habit developed over the years

[al3x]

Quote: oppozite28

A habit developed over the years

No, this is not a habit, it is something like a genetic code. Russia and Europe have always developed parallel to each other, geography has had its influence. The USA, as a historical unit, can be omitted in these relations. On the scale of centuries, they began to influence Eurasia relatively recently. Wars gave way to friendly hugs more than once. I believe that this special operation will end in another friendship, but will have new introductions. This, of course, will not be immediate, but it will happen.

[sadam2]

Quote: gryaznov.igor.

Draw conclusions government!!!

Lavrov’s ministry needs to draw conclusions..why aren’t they working with the opposition?. Why are steels so toxic?
within a decade, the Moldovans, Georgians, and Armenians fled at the first niggle. we reset the Ukrainians. The Kazakhs will be the next to jump. Now Vova is holding Grygorych by the bells, and tomorrow?
Of course, Tokayev is worried about such a long border .. how many loudmouths there are in our media for our cosmodrome

[Aag]

Quote: gryaznov.igor.

We have no allies, except the Belarusians, to rely only on ourselves. This has always been the case. Now it’s hard, pseudo friends have shown their faces. When we deal with the Ukrainians, we must not forget all their statements and everything else in the direction of Russia. Draw conclusions government!!!

Please try to remember what statements were made by “our” media personalities, such as V.R. Solovyov, on federal channels regarding A.G.L.
IMHO: Belarus is not a big country. With not an outstanding supply of anything. (Perhaps - except for the people! Well, I also judge by the end of the Past, the beginning of this century, basically... But! As far as I know, privatization, like the Russian one, did not happen there ( Ah! Well, okay, - there were no such riches... What about production? Does MZKT work? And our armed forces are supplied by China... And much more... Yes., - and not at a loss to themselves... And they border on Ukraine. .. And, for now, it doesn’t fly through them, like in the Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Tver, Moscow regions, Crimea...) It turns out that with a certain desire and skill, you can resolve issues in favor of the State and its citizens?! I understand, - he cited the facts somewhat exaggeratedly, - but, you must agree, - for a small European State, with a minimum of opportunities, Belarus, for now, retains sovereignty!
No no no! - EVEN if we, the Russian Federation, do not abandon them, do not abandon them, that means we need them?! I hope - not only because of Belarusian shrimp.
It turns out that it is possible!
Should we just stop something from being privatized?
...In this regard, many of my compatriots (Russians) - if anyone doesn’t understand - the question arises once again: “Is this really our government?”
... Yes, yes, many are now keen on the topic of “butting between the Kremlin towers”!
... I admit...
Why are they butting heads?
For food?
Is the “feed” imported? (for SOVIET resources, explored, partly developed...?).
Oh, let me tell you...
Well, actually, what am I doing wrong?...

[Thrifty]

You need to be able to deal with neighbors like the Yankees - tough, even cruel. The country's leadership should have its own interests as a priority. And defend them not with ingratiation and handouts, but with tough actions.

[Aag]

Quote: Thrifty

You need to be able to deal with neighbors like the Yankees - tough, even cruel. The country's leadership should have its own interests as a priority. And defend them not with ingratiation and handouts, but with tough actions.

From your comment it is not clear to whom you are addressing it.
In principle, I agree with your text! (in the context there may be discrepancies).
Please be more specific...))...

[dmi.pris1]

And there is no need for enemies, since there are such “friends”...

[aleks700]

So we are introducing sanctions against Kazakhstan. The next day the border is closed to us. What's with the base in Tajikistan? Under siege? It needs to be thinner. Thinner.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: aleks700

What's with the base in Tajikistan?

what's up with the Tajik gastricians?!!

[Victor_54]

What subtlety are you talking about? The whole of Russia was filled with black -haired. and narrow-film... Much thinner? They were allowed to live and work in our country, and they “draw fikvams” for us for this... Where is the limit of shamelessness among people?

[AdAstra]

Ahaha, this is the political foresight and planning of our leaders, like the vision of a blind mole in a dark room. Maybe we should have let him hang up then? ODBC is as dead as the CIS.

[Aag]

Quote from AdAstra

Ahaha, this is the political foresight and planning of our leaders, like the vision of a blind mole in a dark room. Maybe we should have let him hang up then? ODBC is as dead as the CIS.

Well, in fairness, to a blind mole, it seems that it will make no difference whether it’s in a dark or a lit (and even consecrated) room...))
As I understand it, your message relates more to the “hands of the drivers”...
Well, if only that were the case. But they cheat with finances and the media

[Shelest2000]

The President of Kazakhstan said at a meeting with the Chancellor of Germany that Astana complies with all sanctions against the Russian Federation

And at the same time, he does not hesitate to ask Russia to increase the supply of gasoline and diesel fuel.
What are the assumptions - will supplies increase or not?

[Ivan F]

Certainly. When on one side of the scale there is the mythical conscience, responsibility, honor, devotion and on the other there is real money in your pocket, then the cup with money will outweigh like a weight, without encountering any resistance from the other at all.

[faiver]

Before you criticize Tokayev, put yourself in his place. Kazakhstan is not Russia and certainly not China

[Kurganets-45]

If in fact they comply with these sanctions, then it makes absolutely no difference what Kazakhstan is in economic terms, this is in fact a very unfriendly act towards our country. Kazakhstan has made its choice, let them not be offended if something happens and remember how they caught fish in troubled waters.

[Al manah]

Isn’t it by any chance our reliable ally according to the CSTO? It’s good that in this powerful organization we have such loyal friends, if something happens they will cover our back and go with us into battle against a common enemy.

[Aag]

Quote: Al Manah

Isn’t it by any chance our reliable ally according to the CSTO? It’s good that in this powerful organization we have such loyal friends, if something happens they will cover our back and go with us into battle against a common enemy.

It’s not easy to understand which part of your comment you are using sarcasm...
However, the ENTIRE comment is in one vein. (IMHO). Sarcasm rules!

[Victor_54]

These “friends” will not cover our backs. That's for sure. They would rather stick a knife into it. This is more than accurate.

[NW]

Judging by the photo of two “friends”, then you are now inciting against the Krauts))

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: PVV66

Then they will crawl on their knees with an apology.

they won’t come crawling, they will say that the Russians are to blame for their troubles and they owe them a hundred

[Aag]

Quote: Vasilenko Vladimir

Quote: PVV66

Then they will crawl on their knees with an apology.

they won’t come crawling, they will say that the Russians are to blame for their troubles and they owe them a hundred

Got ahead!!!
Key phrase: “They won’t crawl!”...
Fact! You can argue about the reasons.... What's the point?

[Ulan.1812]

Of course he grabbed part of the Russian territories, now of course he has no complaints.

[smart_ups]

There is another version. Politicians say one thing, but then they do it!

[Ulan.1812]

Quote: smart_ups

There is another version. Politicians say one thing, but then they do it!

That is, as they say, language is given to politicians and diplomats to hide their thoughts.

[tatarin1972]

Eh, Kazakhs.... Such friends, for... and to the museum.

[dnestr74]

Let him promise them whatever he wants, but so far everything is good that Kazakhstan exists.

[Igoresh]

That’s why Gazprom’s fuel is cheaper. In general, if it weren’t for the clans, Kazakhstan would live. happily

[Aag]

Quote: Igor

That’s why Gazprom’s fuel is cheaper. In general, if it weren’t for the clans, Kazakhstan would live. happily

Are you that worried about them?
If I'm not mistaken, the length of the borders (RF-ROK) is the longest - more than 7,5 thousand km!!! (the longest border between
officially existing states!) I dare say - unequipped!!!
That is, in essence, it doesn’t exist!! ;

[opposite28]

Next time the CSTO will help the President of Kazakhstan again, if anything happens. Not to mention the persuasion of Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko...

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: oppozite28

Next time the CSTO will help the President of Kazakhstan again, if anything happens

Well, don’t repeat this stupidity, we didn’t help anyone, and the main thing is that there was nothing, the artificially created unrest was completely controlled by Tokayev from beginning to end
The EU needed extras, so we portrayed them, playing on his image of a “savior”

[Sergey39]

The Kazakhs asked to increase fuel supplies to Kazakhstan, but why?

[Ryaruav]

hey Bolsheviks, what is your idol who cut the border so thickly for the Kazakhs, probably that cook (like Matvienko) who can, tell me who? Stalin most likely

[All_Good]

Yes, Putin’s team has created simply amazing relations with Kazakhstan, Armenia, and so on. One Belarus and the whole result, and this is after the legacy of the Soviet Union. Fucked it all up in 30 years

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: All_Good

Yes, Putin’s team has created simply amazing relations with Kazakhstan, Armenia, and so on

and what does the GDP team have to do with it? It’s easy to let the genie out of the bottle, but it’s almost impossible to put it back in

[All_Good]

What do you mean? Who runs the country? Who builds relationships with neighbors?

[Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira]

You can build relationships in two ways: in the American way - buy or buy some goods, get them into loans, place your own people and say that this is what democracy is like. According to the Russian-Soviet: to raise industry, culture, education, to designate statehood, subjectivity, to saturate with cheap energy resources, money and to fuck such “zhomartiks” and pashinyanchiks.”...Everyone pays for everything in this world and we are paying for our simplicity and willingness to believe that good brings good...

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: All_Good

Who builds relationships with neighbors?

A simple example: your neighbor is a violent drunk, it will be your fault for making a mess?!

[Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira]

Well, that's all, well, that's all, well, that's all.... Zhomart pashel from our life!!!


The time for curtsies and other good-neighborly nonsense with the next mountain-steppe “brother” is over and thank God! Start all relationships with a new leaf, on an exclusively rational and financial basis.
The Kazakhs, like the rest of the members of the former USSR, have lost a generation who knew how to think, and a generation has come who knows how to count discounts, interest, bonuses and other freebies. The concepts that guided their parents and grandfathers are alien to them. Therefore, it is useless to hope that they will see the light, and if so, then let them get from today’s history what it gives them!

[Anyuta Glorious]

Why be surprised? If the USSR collapsed in Russia and rushed to the West, declaring the Western world a sworn friend, then what to expect from other republics? It is an obvious fact that for the last at least 20 years, Russia’s domestic and foreign policies have been disastrous. The harvest is now ripe. There are no fools these days. Trust in Russia has fallen because everyone around them sees how the elites of the Russian Federation are doing everything for the benefit of the West, not Russia. Try to prove the opposite? Therefore, there are no guarantees that by supporting Russia these countries will not end up being left behind again. I personally think that, having finished, Russia will again run into the arms of the West.

[AdAstra]

Yes, even during the Northern Military District, she, in the person of the leadership, is trying to embrace the West.

[Aag]

Quote: AAG

Quote: Igor

That’s why Gazprom’s fuel is cheaper. In general, if it weren’t for the clans, Kazakhstan would live. happily

Are you that worried about them?
If I'm not mistaken, the length of the borders (RF-ROK) is the longest - more than 7,5 thousand km!!! (the longest border between
officially existing states!) I dare say - unequipped!!!
That is, in essence, it doesn’t exist!! ;

Will you sleep normally?

[sgr291158]

Scholz near Washington, Tokaev near Scholz, just some kind of sandwich.

[Ivan Ivanov_7]

And then he asked Putin to help with gasoline???????

[Comrade Kim]

Our Putin, it seems, is the only one who hasn’t been deceived by children yet.

Tokay, whom Putin saved, could share the fate of poor M. Gaddafi.
Gaddafi suffered martyrdom, before which he was raped with a shovel handle.

Doesn't Tokai remember this?

I wonder if the Kazakhs try to stage a coup again, what will Putin do?
Will he help again, or will he send shovel cuttings with blue ribbons?

[Victor_54]

Does Russia need such “friends” as the Kazakhs? It is only the Russian elite who call them such. It's time to end this so-called friendship and move on to a purely business relationship. And the “friends” who have come to Russia in large numbers should be immediately deported back. They don't have a damn thing to do here.

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

The guy is clearly sure that the Russian Federation is not up to him now. And in the very short time remaining to him, he tries to “drive away the sour cream from the shit” (C). He behaves like a typical temporary worker.

[duschman80-81]

These are our allies in the CSTO. Both Armenians and Kazakhs. When it is necessary to protect the country, it is the Russians who must provide us with security. And in gratitude, Russian sanctions and exercises with the United States.

[Yaroslav Tekkel]

Quote: duschman80-81

These are our allies in the CSTO. Both Armenians and Kazakhs.

Is it that the Tajiks and the Kyrgyz generally fight each other from time to time? This is such a military bloc.

[Alexander Soviet Union]

Quote: al3x

Maybe some kind of sanctions should also be introduced against such “friends”? Well, for the prevention of friendship. There is a saying: he hits, it means he loves. And here it’s similar: we impose sanctions, which means we value relationships and value connections.

We are accustomed, as they say, to jumping to conclusions and jumping to conclusions.
It is very easy to fall into bondage to the United States and the West, but getting out of it is beyond the power of the vast majority of countries, which have systematically been driven into this dependence informationally and economically for years, lured with carrots. And we are increasingly using the whip because we don’t have enough gingerbread ourselves. Naturally, the weak are looking for a strong patron, and Russia is only trying to become one after the “great” reformers and democrats of the end of the last century laid it face down in the dirt, joyfully shouting from the rostrum of the US Congress: “God bless America.”
State leaders are primarily responsible to their voters, trying to protect whose interests they maneuver in the stormy sea of ​​politics. And we must cherish those who have not yet finally nailed to the western shore. And understand the motives of their actions, but their words are worth little. And here, often, if Vucic or in the recent past Lukashenko said the wrong thing, immediately impose sanctions, raise the price of gas, ban Belarusian milk! etc. We cannot act this way, because we will not only lose real partners, but we will also make even more enemies for ourselves.

[ZovSailor]

Wow, friends and not friends!
I appreciate the opinions of all experts, but there are nuances:
1. Politics and diplomacy are war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed” - in the words of the wise Mao Zedong, and it’s hard to disagree with this!
2. Without much deciphering, what we have with Kazakhstan: historically, as with a neighbor, close relations, on which the partner side depends more than the Russian Federation.
3. In our world, all countries are interconnected by various kinds of international treaties and other bouquets of connections, and no country has the desire to lose financial and other benefits! Therefore, in a tough, cramped world, politics and diplomacy each invent “blank shots” and farts into the ether of international space.
4. There is severe coercion by the False West of our allies and partners to take the side of the empire of lies, whipping up hysteria and nationalism (Russophobia)! Schemes of one of the overseeing tycoons of the deep state of AmeriKa (not to be confused with America)
almost the same: state elite groundbait, yellow-orange revolutions with or without cookies, then depending on the circumstances.
5. In the current conditions, the PRC is pursuing a wise policy, based primarily on the interests of its country and people.
It's up to us to draw conclusions!

[Cypa]

These are the partners in the EAEU and the CSTO.....

[Ezekiel 25-17]

Judas also boasted of his betrayal, and then hanged himself.

[Glagol1]

Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev is no longer an ally. Partner is a neighbor, something like that. Nazarbayev did a lot to make the EAEU happen. The current peppers in power are fighters along the beaten path “we live here, but we will comply with the sanctions.” Armenia, Uzbekistan, Moldova... Everything is similar. The problem for us is the huge border with them. You can’t quarrel, but with Kazakhstan it’s time to play 120% pragmatically. Every step they take against us must be reflected by our counter-step against them, then they will understand.

[Roman Efremov]

Quote: al3x

Maybe some kind of sanctions should also be introduced against such “friends”?

So that he would be offended and place American military bases on his territory? Brilliant plan!!!