I'm sure the troops are there only for their vacation. Jokes aside, this is as if the NATO (especially the USA) would send troops to France against the yellow

I'm sure the troops are there only for their vacation. Jokes aside, this is as if the NATO (especially the USA) would send troops to France against the yellow west protests. Or as if the NATO would be sending troops against the Catalonian separation movement. The NATO also didn't send troops to Turkey during the Turkish coup d'état attempt. What the CSTO is doing here can only be compared with the Warsaw Pact sending troops to suppress the Prague Spring. It shows that the CSTO is basically the successor of the Warsaw pact.