‘It is a fact that Russia cannot be defeated in the military sense,’ Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on September 17, arguing that peace plans pushed by China and Brazil should be supported. ‘A further escalation of war will lead to irreparable consequences for the whole of humanity and above all for the countries involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict,’ Tokayev added. He made the comments as Scholz continued his first visit to Central Asia as Germany’s leader, meeting Tokayev in the Kazakh capital Astana, having arrived from the first …