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" ... It may seem otiose to probe the cultural arcana of Kazakh ballet in a column normally dedicated to geostrategic matters but it's not for whimsy's sake. The country's President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has just completed a state visit to the White House. He attended the ballet in New York. He's working hard to put his nation on the map. The ballet shows us what Kazakhs aspire to be, how they see themselves, how they want others to see them. They're certainly not a closed fundamentalist Islamic society – that's one palpable message. They're incubating a higher social and cultural direction than most oil states (much of their revenue comes from oil). But they and Nazarbayev must traverse some highly dodgy minefields before reaching a stable clearing. ... "
" ... What does it mean that Putin has made himself the central player in the region – with a little help from Mr.Trump, most recently? Is Trump right that they should all be left to fight each other while the US stays out? They will exhaust themselves and while America saves its strength, is the argument. And not necessarily a bad one, prima facie. After all, while the US was bogged down in Iraq (and Afghanistan), both China and Russia made huge gains. And, these days, we're no longer dependent on Mideast oil so why do we care? Yes, our allies in Europe do still depend on that oil but are they our allies any more in the old sense of a united Western Bloc? Trump has made it clear that he has no time for such otiose legacies, even going so far as to encourage the Brexit camp in Britain. In short, China aside, the White House wants to withdraw from the entire integrated global geostrategy game that America has considered it exigent to play for over a century. ... "