Kyrgyz Ethnyk Unryst Out Of Contryl

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   Things are pretty bad when you're asking the Russians to invade you, right? Well, it seems that things are pretty bad in y-happy Kyrgyzstan right now, with the ethnic riots, and the death, and the flows of refugees to the Uzbek border! And so they're asking the Russians to, uh, send troops to restore order (i.e., invade). This is a plan where literally nothing could possibly go wrong! And when things don't go wrong, they surely won't have uncomfortable-making consequences for the U.S. and the Kyrgyz military base it has come to rely on rather heavily.[ BW ]

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