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IMO all this shit against Myanmar / Burma is just a lead up to more regime change shit hoping to weaken China's sphere (Myanmars main weapons supplier and economic partner is China) and continue US hegemony over Asia
It's worth noting that the US has been funding these Rohinga separatists who in reality are basically just Muslim Bengali Nationalists to attempt to destabilise Myanmar / Burma since its socialist period
Logan Murphy
What a heaving load of bullshit, literally none of this is accurate.
Charles Perez
Like what?
Carter Watson
For starters the West has been backing all in for Aung San Suu Kyi since she got into power, especially the UK. Secondly Burma has a rather pluralistic attitude to who it trades with and gets investment from: for example a load of investment has come from Japan recently. There is no evidence of funding of "Rohinga separatists, and calling them Bengali nationalists is fucking American tier understanding of cultures " hurr they r nearby thus must wannabe a part". Bengali nationalism evolved in specific opposition to Pakistan and the East Pakistan regime, like fuck some ethnic minority that speak their own language that didn't go through all that are Bengal nationalists. Fourth as mentioned, outside economies aligned with the West have been bungling investment I to Burma, which at the same time they are trying to destabilise why? So all of that can be erased when it is invaded?finally, what, did the West fund a load of Buddhist monks to go around inciting riots against the Rohyinga, is the great power of the CIA octopus to cause long term ethnic conflict between the Buddhists and local Muslims? Also a load of the US backed liberals were anti Rohyinga. Don't just spout hot takes without knowing your shit mate.
John Ramirez
redpill me on the rohingya situation, i want to read more into it
Sebastian Wilson
ebin b i n
Asher Cooper
Relatively big riots happening in France right now.
Colton Williams
So since the end of the British Raj in 1948, Burma has moved towards a Buddhist Nationalist position: this transcends the Royalist, Burmese Path to Socialism, Junta, and "Democratic" periods. As a result, the Rohingya, who are a muslim ethnic group that settled on the modern Burmese coast over 1000 years ago from Bengal. They mostly followed the path of trading outposts because of the Monsoon Marketplace. So there is a lot of dispute over their origin. The Rohygina see themselves as a muslim ethnic group that isn't Burmese, but doesn't really have separatist aspirations. Like many minorities in East Asia they merely seek autonomy within a larger civic structure (Think like the Shan in Burma, Tuvans in Russia, various groups in South-west China, tribal peoples of the Mekong delta ect.), To the Burmese they are Bengalis that don't belong in Burma and they "encourage" their movement to Bengal. To the Pakistani nationalists of the pre-independence period they were seen as a brotherly part of the Umma, but Ali-Jinnah didn;t want to fuck with Burma's territorial integrity at the risk of not being able to form a Pakistan in the first place. Since this strain of nationalism died in the 1970s, it is not that relevant anymore but important to remember for history. It should be noted that Rohingya leaders of the time wanted to join this greater Pakistan. To Bengalis they are kinda like the Austrians to Germans: they have a similar history and language (their language is in the same group as Bengali language proper) but they do not have the same national history. Bangladeshi nationalism derives almost directly from its conflict with West (aka modern) Pakistan. Why is that important? Because the Burmese (and that user's) claim that they are Bangladeshi nationalists makes no sense because they cannot have that same experience. It is like saying a protestant person who is from Scotland totally is an Ulster Unionist: sure they can be a British unionist but only protestants from Ulster can be loyalists, only they have that national experience. So yeah to talk about the present situation, what is going on is that Buddhist priests have called for Rohingya to be expelled because muh terrorism (which wasn't happening in Burma), and the army was called in to "keep the peace" but instead they helped expel them. Now there is over a million refugees in Bangladesh alone, an things are gonna get worse. The camps will be hit by radicalists, and soon there will be Chechen tier islamism infesting the whole of the bengal delta. All of this was overseen by a former Western Darling who became PM (the UK stripped her of all her honours about a year ago after this started). Shit's fucked up and long term, it is gonna be pretty fucked up.
