That is, yes I was missing something, the Mackinder's pivot theory, that seems something that people with globalist aspirations would fervently support.
However, there is still a lot of mystery just because, if we accept the fact that the West, and all that that represents, have interests in dominating Central Asia, and with it Kazakhstan, then we accept that the West does not dominate Kazakhstan. And if it does not dominate it, where do those symbols come from?
Maybe they represent something in the East, maybe I'm wrong to make a dichotomy, but Nazarbayev seems to be from all sides of the political board, and unless we accept that there is a greater power acting on all of them, which is unlikely, because it would be to put China and the United States in the same bag, the symbolism seems very present in a place that is supposed to be in dispute.