Originally posted by cpxxx
I think it's all part of the same tendency to look towards the west much in the same way as the Ukraine has recently. People can see how the wind is blowing and all want the same things we tend to take for granted here in the west. There seems to be a strong tendency to move away from the Moscow and the Russian way of things in these old Soviet countries.
It has no oil though. Unlike it's neighbours. I think Kazakhstan has almost as much oil as Saudi Arabia. So Kyrgyzstan won't have much impact on anyone's strategic interests. They will be left to get on with it unless Putin intervenes.
CP, take a look at the map and you'll see.
It's just amazing how some guys like to play domino : from the sea ports of Pakistan to Afganistan, then thru Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, runs a pipeline for the oil of Kazakhstan.
God bless America, the land of the free.
