kazakhstan this week have all kinds of specific grievances and goals, but the protesters have been explicit. they want greater democracy, and civil rights, like so many of the other former soviet republics around them have won over the years. and we recognize this. we see this happening in a place like kazakhstan. we know what this is. but what is this? we are one year out from the attack on our capitol. but in a lot of ways we still don't know what this was. the january 6th attack looks like the attack on the government building in kazakhstan exactly a year later, but the similarities basically start and end there. for starters, the goal of those storming the buildings are polar opposites. in kazakhstan, the protesters are trying to throw off an autocratic government and make their country more democratic.