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Kazakh president gives shoot-to-kill order to quell protests
submitted 2 years ago by Drewski from reuters.com
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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (3 children)
He just justified his own assassination. Anyone in the military or police not trying to shoot him is literally a traitor to thier own people.
[–]BravoVictor 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago* (2 children)
Disagree. The protests are happening because:
Now the people are revolting because they're not getting unsustainably cheap fuel. Killing their leaders won't change that. It'll only make things worse. A new government is either going to re-institute fixed pricing, which will just collapse the local oil industry, or it'll again switch to free market pricing, which will anger people who don't want to pay more, resulting in fresh protests. It's lose-lose either way.
Plus, there's some evidence the west is fanning the flames to topple a Russia-friendly government and create a second front for a new war against Russia.
New governments also tend to be far more brutal than the last, since they need to be more brutal to oust the current leadership. The new western-friendly government in Ukraine has spent the last decade murdering it's own citizens in the eastern Ukraine who didn't want to go along with the coup and new un-elected leadership.
[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
If they had to provide cheap fuel to stave off revolution that does not mean that the end of that program is the cause of the revolution. Hundreds of people are dying and I guarantee it is not over cheap fuel.
[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago* (0 children)
I don't think this possibility should be just skipped over without consideration. Mass protests are either ignored by major media outlets (like Reuters) or given attention based not on the merits of the protests but the "western" (ie CIA) support and if the function the potential destabilization serves the CIA's goals.
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