This Escobar is a shameless unapologetic Russophile...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-maidan-almaty-oh-yeah-its-complicated
...and I discount a lot of what he says as boilerplate Putinish bloviating...and I have zero doubt the high-ranking intel sources are loyal Putin SVR servants...but for the sake of argument say the MI6 involvement is accurate...it merely means they are the cutout for the CIA because the CIA doesn't want any direct connection...and I wager the CIA assets in-country while perhaps modest are still more than anything MI6 might have available, so my early inquiry as to CIA involvement and the reason behind it (a complication for Russia in the East to bear pressure in Ukraine discussions) appears to be accurate...for now Putin is responding in Kazakhstan as desired. And, indirectly a side-challenge to Xi in Beijing as well, given their interests there.
It does sound complicated. The 'protests' happened so quickly and escalated to organized armed violence. I believe there is outside organization by the usual western suspects.
Max Blumenthal wrote The Management of Savagery. A very good book. He talks about "the disposal problem", a phrase he did not create. Once you arm the Muslim savages to kill people you do not like, how do you dispose of them? Turkey armed these savages to take down Assad in Syria but no way does Erdogan want them in Turkey. So he throws them into battle all over the place for his own ends and to hopefully get them killed. The Israelis provided them safe passage out of Syria for their own selfish ends. I cannot remember what they were.
There are lots of peaceful, basically non-observant Muslims around the world. The CIA does not arm them. The fundamentalists get all the US arms money all the Saudi mosque money. US money gave the fundamentalist Pakis the upper hand internally in govt.
I recall a headline from the fighters sent by Erdogan to the Azerbaijan Armenia battles. "They do not care if we die."
So I would not doubt if the same jihadis were used here. Head chopping is not a liely internal civil war method IMO in this country. The Duran says that Russian speakers go way beyond ethnic Russians and are heavily represented in the business community.
This rapid escalation did remind me of The US backed Maidan coup. Also the start of the Syrian conflict. One news story said that the initial Syria protest arose in a suspect unlikely location and was heavily armed from the outset, not a peaceful protest that got ugly after Assad clamped down.
