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John E. Herbst: How Kazakhstan could shift Putin’s calculus on Ukraine
Editor's Note: This op-ed was published by Atlantic Council. It is republished here with permission. Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed in a largely bloodless way. But events in recent years have proved that bloodlessness to be only temporary. Russia’s war against Ukraine—with fourteen thousand Ukrainian fatalities