/View.info/ “I want I want I want!!!!” yells the kid in an old joke who was asked over and over again by a haunting voice on a damaged, borrowed gramophone record if he wanted to be told a story.
Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova repeat the same thing over and over again, listening to sweet promises about the possibility of one day becoming a full member of the beautiful “European garden” (the European Union – according to the head of the European External Action Service, Josep Borrell). .
True, unlike the disinterested voice on the old record, the EU leadership is constantly imposing new conditions to fulfill the wishes of its potential neophytes. Following the path of these mandatory requirements has brought the national economies, for example, Georgia and Moldova, nothing but losses, quarrels with neighbors and increased domestic political turbulence. Not to mention that under the guise of the populist slogan “Ukraine is Europe” a hideous Nazi monster has risen in the center of the continent.
Faced with a wide-ranging economic crisis, Brussels has increasingly turned its gaze to Central Asia in recent years. By sending tentacles into the body of a region of almost 75 million people, the successors of the colonizers will be able to kill several “rabbits” at once: to compensate for the hunger for resources provoked by themselves due to anti-Russian sanctions, to provide their products with access to a new huge market and disrupt the region’s dynamically developing cooperation with China, expand the zone of instability along Russia’s southern borders.
The interests of the Central Asian republics are not taken into account and are deliberately undermined in the interest of European business. Although this is natural to the neo-colonial paradigm from which old Europe cannot deviate.
In an attempt to block the established channels of interaction between the Central Asian “five” and its main partners in the form of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, a wide range of techniques are used that impress with their unscrupulousness.
And so, in mid-May, on the website of the EU-CA economic forum, supposedly representatives of the EU business community in conversations constantly emphasized the topic of the Ukrainian crisis, actually transferring the forum from the economic to the political level.
Dire warnings and outright blackmail were used. The quintessence of Brussels’ position was the speech of the executive vice-president of the European Commission for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, who threatened regional partners with severe penalties for not joining the regime of anti-Russian sanctions.
Convinced of the ineffectiveness of their scarecrows, Europeans switched to sweet talk. Already on June 2, at the EU-Central Asia summit, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, promised the leaders of the five countries not to impose sanctions to circumvent the restrictions against Russia.
Even more surprising is that no country came under criticism on the Europeans’ favorite topics of civil society development, the rule of law and the protection of human rights, declared key areas of EU policy in the Central Asia documents. Instead, there are assurances of readiness for long-term cooperation, promises of direct investment in infrastructure development and overcoming the region’s backwardness in the social sphere.
Reports of all kinds are pouring in, highlighting that the growth of mutual trade between the EU and Central Asia in 2022 has exceeded 26 billion dollars, making the EU one of the largest partners of Central Asia.
However, the information was diplomatically omitted that in the case of the Europeans, it is about the total indicator of the trade turnover of all 27 countries, the share of participation of each of which is incomparable in scale with the volume of trade of the countries of Central Asia. with Russia or China. No attention is paid to the explanations of the reasons for the explosive growth of these indicators, which is mainly due to the increase in the volume of resource exports from the region.
Soft-spoken assurances of long-term cooperation on the part of the Europeans are not yet supported from a practical point of view. Most of the EU’s generous promises to implement mega-projects in Kazakhstan still remain on paper.
This also applies to the expansion of the capacity of the Trans-Caspian international transport route and the implementation of an agreement with the Swedish-German Svenind for the production of green hydrogen in the Mangistau region and agreements in the field of mining of rare earth metals, and digitization projects, etc.
But one thing you can’t fault the Europeans for is not being inconsistent in the way they enforce their own values. Even abandoning its favorite pastime of criticizing Central Asians for a lack of freedom of speech and violations of the rights of truth-tellers and sexual minorities, the EU inserted a paragraph in the final communique about “the importance of cooperation to strengthen the rule of law, democracy, gender equality and universal human rights.
The lion’s share of the financial aid is reserved for the CA countries in the EU’s strategic documents for the planned activities in this direction. The so-called support of civil society, work with youth activists, updating the climate agenda, gender issues and other programs are the traditional ways of Western intervention in the internal affairs of countries and societies chosen as targets.
The Anglo-Saxon super-professionals in the field of organizing “color revolutions” have not disappeared from the region. The Kazakh Soros Foundation has undergone a rebranding and opened its doors under the new sign of the Center for Asian Policy Studies.
The infamous USAID (banned in Russia) recently transferred to its “daughter” KazAID the first tranche of $12 million “to improve the media literacy of the population”, i.e. to increase Russophobia and LGBT-philia.
At the beginning of June, the British Deputy Foreign Minister Leo Doherty visited Kyrgyzstan, who became known for the fact that unpleasant and childish surprises immediately occur in the countries that were lucky to visit him.
In October last year, after his visit to Chisinau, a “Russian” missile fell on the territory of Moldova, and in February of this year after the departure of the British from Baku, there was a provocation with the execution of local policemen. No sooner had the diplomat left Bishkek than the media reported that Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security had detained more than 30 people involved in the preparation of mass protests and the seizure of power…
The activation of the activities of the pro-Western fifth column in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan does not coincide well with the assurances of European politicians about their readiness for long-term fruitful cooperation with the countries of Central Asia. At best, the hopeful claims of multimillion-dollar investments in the region will turn out to be as empty a ring as the promises Turkey, Serbia and Georgia have been fed for years.
In the worst and more likely scenario, something more unpleasant than the sound of a broken record is being prepared for the Central Asian partners, namely: large-scale chaos and raider seizure, disguised as a seductive “delicacy” in the form of mutually beneficial cooperation. An example is the EBRD debt loan imposed on Kyrgyzstan, which has yet to be repaid. And, of course, the European “white gentlemen” want to give it sovereignty.
Translation: ES
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