In 2014 all the other nations joined putin s answer to the european union. these countries all trade heavily with russia and host russian bases on military facilities. in january facing anti-government unrest, kazakhstan s ruler called in scto troops. the mostly russian forces helped restore order. in 2020, armenia fought a bloody war. russia broke the truce and dispatched russian soldiers to keep the peace. yet, despite these many connections, during russia s war in ukraine, it has gotten almost nothing from those countries. none have contributed troops or supplies according to nbc, kazakhstan refused a russian request for troops though kazakhstan denies a request was made. whatever the case, it s all a remarkable contrast to the immense help ukraine has gotten from countries it has no formal
And now for the last look. for all of putin s outlandish claims of wanting to denazi if i ukraine, his real aims have been evident from the start, turning the country into puppet state. this war has shown how little moscow has gotten from cultivating its over sphere of influence since the soviet union collapsed. after the cold war, most of the former communist states in europe took a fiercely anti-russian stance and joined nato or the european union. other countries stayed in moscow s orbit. in 1992 they formed the collective security treaty organization or scto, russia s counterpart to nato. current members are armenia, belarus, kazakhstan and two others.
Of kyrgyzstan, but there is the consultant mechanism. the head of the security council met to discuss the issue of security and of deploying a peacekeeper s contingent. so far, there is no need. they have decided the things may start developing by different scenar scenarios, so scto will respond, and me being a chair, the chairman of the organization, anytime, can convene a meeting of relevant bodies and we hope that the united states does have an understanding. obviously, we re monitoring the situation very carefully. there already has been excellent coordination between the united states and the russian federation on delivery of humanitarian aid. one of the things that we