by GhostofBasedPatrickHenry at Badlands Media
US President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Kazakhstan signed a $4 billion deal to purchase American locomotives and rail equipment, calling it “the largest railroad equipment purchase in history” following his phone call with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
“They have signed the largest Railroad Equipment Purchase in History, $4 Billion Dollars Worth of United States Locomotives and Rail Equipment. We need to support our U.S. Rail Industry, which has been attacked by Fake Environmentalists for years,” Trump wrote on the US social media company Truth Social, congratulating Tokayev on the agreement.
Earlier in the day, Tokayev met with US Presidential Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Sergio Gore in New York, congratulating him on his appointment and pledging support for his mission.
He reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s commitment to advancing the Kazakh-American strategic partnership, emphasizing the country’s role as Washington’s main economic partner in Central Asia. – AA
Our Take: This is the diagram that got me thinking about Kazakhstan so much. The three nodes of the triangle are the capitals of Russia, China and Iran. In 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski published a book called The Grand Chessboard where he warned that the only thing that could potentially threaten the emerging New World Order would be a triumvirate alliance of Russia, China, and Iran.
Back in June, I spent an hour of “Geopolitics with Ghost” talking about Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is interesting. There was a coup in 2022 which I believe was Putin’s move to take [benevolent] control of the country. Its capital, Astana, is the site of the long-running plan to save Syria, known as the Astana Process.
The Astana Process — which I think was the Sovereign Alliance plan to exfil Assad out of Syria and begin the countermove against the cabal — began in January 2017. The same month Trump took office. It culminated days before Assad was “overthrown” back in December, with key meetings happening right before and right after Trump’s re-election.
At the end of the clip, I stumble onto an article from a French media outlet from last year warning that Vladimir Putin is piecing together a grand railroad master plan that perhaps presents his proverbial silver bullet against the Western Hegemony’s New World Order.
This railroad story connects Azerbaijan, India, Pakistan, Iran, the SCO, China, Russia, and former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — who cut the ribbon on the official opening of the railroad in March 2019. (Q was posting about Rouhani in August 2019, when Rouhani was arresting corrupt central bankers that were likely connected to the money laundering in the Iran Nuclear Deal.)
The main reason I found Kazakhstan so compelling is because of its geography. Not only is it strategically located, but it is basically a flat plain, making it an ideal site for large infrastructure projects. It is also the world’s largest producer of uranium. Interesting that it is now a focus for President Trump. I can’t help but wonder if a railroad will run from Alaska through Kazakhstan and ultimately reach the Middle East and Africa.
Could you imagine? [Clip Link] — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
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