v12 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:37 pm
Orichá wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:29 pm
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The military in Burma is quite a small pack of hoodlums, really...
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Yep, though they do have the economic power, this military and its generals are really rich, possess large parts of the larger companies in the country.
It is the same in any country run by a military-economic elite. In Asia, particularly, the dynasty-patriarchy thing dominates their psyche. Said powerful general General Min Aung Hlaing most probably has a son whom he wants to line up for the same job and/or economic power privileges. Him and his buddies must be afraid of losing their enforced commercial monopolies to the inevitable competition of a burgeoning middle class.
Also, I might add, that it is such a great pity the international financial system is so utterly corrupt and rotten... Also, so is the sale of international armaments. All the environmentalists among us are crying about how to stop burning carbon, but who is telling China not to deliver guns and ammo to these egomaniacs in Burma? And hypocrite China always blubbers about, "we do not meddle in the domestic affairs of other states" -- which is a load of rubbish. Of course, the local dictators here and over there are overjoyed every time they receive deliveries of brand new military hardware for free, which of course they could never otherwise afford. . .
China and Russia get big power points and influence over domestic policies and development projects here and there, wherever they donate and sell guns...
(Or, take the example of the U.S.A., selling jet fighters and stuff to Saudi: Americans get a lot money to prop up their ugly over-priced arms industry,
which employs very few people relative to the huge sums of cash poured into it... Why doesn't Dr Expert Nobody talk about that either in the goddamn awful
Economist or
Monde Diplomatique..? More than half the guys working for those important rags are greedy hand-rubbing little capitalist shits out to invest in some scam so they can quit being shitty little journalists and live high off the hog just like prince harry... lol...)