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by jgust 3624 days ago
Can anyone tell me what this means?

> ...in another ten years, you will see, we’ll be living like Arabs.

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I'm assuming he meant "living like Arabs" in the sense that they'll become a very prosperous country.
That's what I assumed, but I didn't know if people of Kazakhstan have a negative view of how Arabs live. Thanks!
The future of Kazakhstan is highly unstable. The current slightly benevolent dictator has no good processor and the development of Kazakhstan is mostly dependent of oil, so when renewable energy becomes the norm and rhe president dies in the coming ten years the country will probably implode.
nope, "living like Arabs in 10 years" in that context means becoming rich.
> has no good processor

Do you mean he is stupid or that Kakakistan doesn't have an oil refinery or that he doesn't have a successor?

I think he meant to write predecessor but what he really meant was successor. Potentially confusing similar words for non-English speakers.