{"id":40400,"date":"2022-01-07T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/putin-taking-a-risk-in-kazakhstan-and-may-hope-for-reward"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:00:30","slug":"putin-taking-a-risk-in-kazakhstan-and-may-hope-for-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40400","title":{"rendered":"Putin taking a risk in Kazakhstan and may hope for reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: CSTO may be an alliance but decision to intervene was almost certainly taken in Moscow<\/p>\n<p>The old joke about the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact was that it was the only military alliance to attack itself, after its tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to crush a reform movement there.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/protesters-police-die-amid-kazakhstan-unrest\">deployment of troops<\/a> from the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) to Kazakhstan on Thursday, some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McFaul\/status\/1478835221654953988\">heard \u201ceerie echoes\u201d<\/a> of the so-called Prague spring of 1968, and the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolution in 1956.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/putin-taking-a-risk-in-kazakhstan-and-may-hope-for-reward\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: CSTO may be an alliance but decision to intervene was almost certainly taken in MoscowThe old joke about the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact was that it was the only military alliance to attack itself, after its tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to cru&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,262,419,61,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400\/revisions\/40401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}