© unknownUS Ambassador to Kazakhstan, William Moser
Over the past three decades
post-Soviet territory has become Washington's new playground, where the US attempts to uproot all traditional ties that bind Russia with its immediate neighbors. In the 1980s and 1990s, Washington would place
particular emphasis on advancing its relations with the Baltic republics, as it was a rush to draw them away from Russia into an alliance with the United States and NATO. Then, Ukraine and Georgia were to suffer the same sorry fate, but here the US had to infiltrate local political elites with a number of well-trained PR teams, working for Saakashvili, Yushchenko, and Poroshenko. In turn, these political figures didn't even make an attempt to hide the fact that they were completely dependent on the United States.
Now, Washington is concentrating its attention on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR. In recent years, it has been particularly active in
Uzbekistan, which is becoming increasingly pro-Western. However, in a bid to promote its agenda across Central Asia,
the United States has also spent a lot of time and resources on Kazakhstan, which is not just the largest of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, but
has a self-sufficient economic and military force with significant potential.To successfully fulfill the plan of drawing Kazakhstan away from Russia,
Washington has been consistently building up its bilateral trade volume with Nur-Sultan, which resulted in the Kazakh government announcing that the United States has recently become the second largest foreign trade partner of Kazakhstan, pulling far ahead of both China and Russia.
The first on this list is the Netherlands, which looks particular since this Central Asian country has a long stretch of common border with Russia and traditions that bind it together with its largest neighbor.
At the same time, some 8,600 companies from Russia and 1,200 companies from China are operating on a regular basis in Kazakhstan, which overshadows 497 American companies working there.
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