How Kazakhstan's Unrest Threatens America's Interests

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s a country few Americans have heard of, but Kazakhstan is going through political unrest that should make everyone sit up and take notice. With Russians on the doorstep and a bevy of strategic resources on the line, there’s a lot at stake.

"[Kazakhstan] has about 40% of the world's uranium. It has lots of oil and gas and big U.S. companies like Chevron are deeply involved in Kazakhstan," explains Luke Coffey, director of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

Coffey joins the "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss why Kazakh unrest matters to the U.S., and what we should be doing about it.

We also cover these stories:

President Joe Biden says if Senate Democrats don’t get their way on voting legislation, the filibuster needs to end.
Dr. Anthony Fauci clashes again with Sen. Rand Paul as Fauci accuses him of endangering his life by criticizing him.
Sen. Mitch McConnell says there will be consequences if Senate Democrats change the filibuster.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, January 12th.
0:09.8	I'm Kate Trinco.
0:10.8	And I'm Doug Blair.
0:12.5	It's a country few Americans have heard of, but Kazakhstan is going through political unrest
0:17.6	that should make them sit up and take notice.
0:20.4	With Russians on the doorstep and a bevy of strategic resources on the line, there's a lot
0:24.4	at stake here.
0:25.4	Heritage Foundation foreign policy expert Luke Koffee joins the show to discuss why
0:30.0	Kazakh unrest matters to the U.S.
0:33.1	But before we get to Doug's conversation with Luke Koffee, let's hit our top news stories
0:37.2	of the day.
0:40.8	President Joe Biden says that if Senate Democrats don't get their way on voting legislation,
0:55.2	the filibuster needs to end.
0:57.5	Here's some of his remarks from his speech Tuesday via MSNBC.
1:24.5	Speaking in Atlanta, Biden also took aim at conservative voting legislation via now
1:30.2	this.
1:31.2	Partisans seek the results they want no matter what the voters have said, no matter what
1:36.0	the count.
1:39.0	The votes are nearly five million Georgians will be up for grabs if that law holds.
1:46.1	It's not just here in Georgia.
1:49.1	Last year alone, 19 states not proposed but enacted 34 laws attacking voting rights.
1:58.9	There were nearly 400 additional bills, Republican members of state legislatures tried to pass.
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