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Oh stewardess,
I speak jive.
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As it relates to the current Coup and killings, and the supposed Rohingya genocide, to what degree do you all think the CCP is directly meddling, providing support, or are otherwise behind the fuckery over there? Is this a forgone conclusion, or just rumor, or what? I'm no historian...

News today says 20 "protesters" were shot on sight in Myanmar, including children.

Some reading indicates the military has basically been in control since the 60s, and any other government only ever really exists on paper, so to speak, even when the government has been "democratically elected".
 
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Most likely - they will do anything to de-stabilize anyone
 
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The Hmong Thai aka the Burmese have long been a somewhat bellicose/belligerent folk from culturally disparate provinces. They currently number around 130 million and were a conquered and exploited relatively affluent part of the British Empire until FDR's deal cut with Churchill gained their autonomy post WWII, during which some fraction had aligned with Japan to gain that freedom. They have alternated between various ruthless military rulers and other differently intention-ed fractions ever since. And being fairly resource rich adjacent China isn't ignoring them either. OTOH, as per Bill Buckley, the choice of being ruled by such as the recent incarcerant hailing from Haahvaahd might not be so much better despite leftwing media's propaganda to the contrary. It is sometimes hard to tell the jockeys from the horses.
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