Kazakhstan is part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) similar to Nato which comprises of ex-Soviet countries. I'm sure CSTO has an obligation to help.
NATO doesn’t have any obligation to “help” break down civilian protests by sending out paratroopers from one of its members to another member state so no it’s not similar.
NATO not only has this obligation, with Gladio it was active in violently breaking down civilian protests in Italy.
This was actually revealed by the center-right government in Italy in 1990, because they were more scared of the US/NATO involvement in Italian domestic affairs, then their own left leaning working class.
Don’t you think that an global intelligence operation is a bit different than officially asking for foreign military intervention in your own country against civilians?
Apparently they do not have such an obligation - after all, CSTO refused to help Armenia in the recent Azerbaijan-Armenia war, so from that perspective it's a bit surprising now CSTO including Armenia itself seems to consider that it's an obligation given that this case is obviously much less applicable than that war.
Hi user who signed up specifically to leave this comment (which is not suspicious at all). No, they don't. CSTO is for external threats only. To circumvent this limitation the old farts call people taking part in the protest terrorists (this reminds me of something by the way).
They are actually terrorists by definition. I mean those taking over the airport, police stations etc. There are peaceful protesters, but the troops are not after them
You mean that definition that prescribes hoi polloi to be subservient and sing/dance the way Belorussians did while being literally raped/murdered by the monarch's squad? There are no peaceful ways to stop totalitarianism. And there is nothing sacral about public buildings.
The real terrorists are those who are using army against their own population. Neighboring Kyrgyzstan had multiple revolutions, too. And their army did the right thing every time by not getting involved (except the last one when Kremlin played its part).