Myanmar's Military is Now Arresting Celebrities Along With Politicians! Nearly 500 So Far!
(www.reuters.com)
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why do we think this is a good thing again? Burma/Myanmar has nothing whatsoever to do with the deep state in the United States. It's really alarming to me how everyone here seems to think that military coups are just by definition a good thing anywhere now in any context.
The US military is the good guys in our own American political crisis. The damn Burmese Army is not the good guys just because they're also in uniforms and have guns like our military does.
When this event hit the press, this board had some users allegedly familiar with Myanmar providing context. It also lines up with history of countries falling by subverted democracy (Venezuela, poss S Korea, recent Phill elections) selling out the country instead of serving it. Some Q posts suggest that the recent Myanmar elections were subverted, and other posters have noted the links to human trafficking from the countryas well. That's the context behind the generalized enthusiasm. It doesn't reflect a desire for military dictatorship generally, but rather the belief that the military is expected to re-establish our representative government according to a plan, and that the same plan is being tested in a similar situation there.
who on earth believes the Burmese military is doing this to re-establish representative government? It's literally the same group of generals who ran the military dictatorship and fought tooth and nail against the constitution. They're some of the most corrupt people on the planet who've spent decades getting rich off Army-run state-owned enterprises. If anyone's trafficking kids out of Burma it's the Army, not Aung.
Just trying to explain the context. You may be right.
It's just very frustrating to me that so many people here are cheering on the men who not long ago commanded the largest army of child soldiers in the world. How can anyone think the people who abducted tens of thousands of little boys are the guys fighting child traffickers? It sickens me.