After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving

Post by tradesurplus » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

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> There are no alternatives, that is part of the problem. The UN was primarily created to prevent all-out war between the US and Russia... Please don't pervert the history. This wasn't the case. The UN was created as a reaction to the horror of WWII and the failure of the League of Nations. It was to become a League of Democracies, an iron fist against the next Nazi Germany wannabe, a guarantor of the "Never Again."…

This is not a Nazi Germany wannabe, it's just a garden variety tinpot dictatorship. There are a lot like it in the world, and we've figured out that outside intervention is not a good idea in such cases. It's the responsibility of a country's own people to pursue free government for themselves, assuming that they care to. Reap what you sow, and all that.

Post by atatatat » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 3:42 PM UTC

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It depends, I think Syria was a half hearted involvement, I think Bosnia we did actually do some good. Anyone know why Russia and China can’t be involved/lead a UN peacekeeping effort? Why block it, dictatorships good is their only thinking?

In Bosnia, the Clinton administration and the EU provided cover for the Serbs while pretending to do something. This provided a cause around which Jihad movements could coalesce (along with Chechnya) leading to both the "Jihad travel networks" and improvements in international resource flows to sponsor those. Later, during the Kosovo conflict, the Clinton administration bombed civilians in Belgrade and blew up passen…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

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You clearly have no idea what you're talking about or any knowledge of Burma's history. General Hlaing's junta has already committed one genocide against the Rohingya in 2017 and given the continued opportunities will turn Burma into a failed state, cause the death of millions and destabilise the region. Just because they lack Nazi Germany's industrial capacity and sharp uniforms doesn't mean they won't continue to m…

Funny that you bring the Nazis into play. I've read somewhere that the Rohingya aren't liked that much in all the regions they dispersed into, because much of them worked as the shock troops of the British Empire, protecting its interests. That seems to be true even for the time when their home was called Arakan, and they weren't so dispersed. So they are shunned where they did the shock trooping for the Brits, or tr…