US Courts Central Asian Dictators in Pursuit of Post-Afghan War Objectives
Nations including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have some of the world s most abysmal human rights records – but that isn t deterring the Biden administration from seeking to work with them.by Brett Wilkins Posted on
As it did while attempting to build a natural gas pipeline through the region in the 1990s and during the early years of the so-called War on Terror, the U.S. government is once again courting Central Asian dictatorships in a bid to secure a military staging area from which it could launch strikes against resurgent Islamist militants in the post-Afghan War era.