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CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelors with Malcolm Honeline Conference of Presidents

Major American Jewish Organizations.

Malcolm is in Jerusalem. I am in New England and we're very pleased to be joined by Brenda Schaefer, Professor

Brenda Schaefer on our side of the planet after traveling around the world.

She's a faculty member at the US Naval Postgraduate

School, a senior advisor for Energy at the FTT Foundation for Defensive

democracies, as well as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global

Energy Center.

Brenda, the president of the Russian Federation, Mr. Putin was recently in Central Asia

in a happy conversation with the leadership.

Is Russia reintroducing itself to

Central Asia to what end? Good evening to you. Good evening. Yeah I think I think that

as a result of the Ukraine war there's a completely different relationship between the states of Central Asia and Russia and also a growing alliance across the Caspian between the states of Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and into Turkey.

And this gives the states of Central Asia a lot more confidence vis-à-vis Russia. For instance, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan have

signed military cooperation agreements with Azerbaijan, with Turkey.

These were the first time that any of these countries signed any sort of strategic or military cooperation agreements with any country except for Russia.

And so it is a very, very you know very new stage in their relations and I think you know going forward we love everyone loves to well the West loves to talk about the international liberal order that it some perceive that it exists.

But actually probably one of the most powerful new emerging orders is the alliance between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.

And with this new rising alliance, the states of Central Asia and the Caucasus are going to

become even more important and strategic than before as somewhat of

you know borderland between the West and and that new alliance that is formed.

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