Aug 4 (Reuters) - Poet turned militia leader Maung Saungkha, one of the most prominent figures fighting for democracy in Myanmar, says his armed group plans to start carving out territory in the country’s heartlands to confront the junta more directly.
Maung Saungkha said the move is a key strategic aim for his Bamar People’s Liberation Army (BPLA) - a militia formed in the wake of the junta’s February 2021 coup - now that it has gained training from allies and battle experience in the country’s borderlands.
Maung Saungkha said the BPLA wants to work with the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) - the armed wing of the National Unity Government formed from the remnants of Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s administration that is seeking to supplant the junta.
Bamar dominance has long been resented by Myanmar’s many minorities but Maung Saungkha’s background has helped the BPLA forge strong ties with other ethnic armed organisations, delicate work seen as critical for the resistance.
But, to have greater impact, they need to move “beyond creating confusion and disorder” in urban areas and work together to seize strategic sites, she said, adding their efforts were impeded by competition between armed groups for weapons and resources.
Brigadier General Nyo Tun Aung, the AA’s deputy commander-in-chief, said in a letter to Reuters that Maung Saungkha has built “good and close relationships” with leaders of “ethnic revolutionary organisations.”
I dunno. That’s like one whole months bill for the average Apple user… After this gets dragged through the small claims court system for at least the next decade, it will completely piss off their external legal teams. Their retainer fee could skyrocket 0.00000001%.
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You try and sell your copy of windows 10 and Norton anti virus to make ends meet.
You also had them redefining what a recession is so they can say the US is not in one. For the longest time it was defined as 2 consecutive quarters without gdp growth. Now that’s only the case sometimes according to them, at least i think the article still states that its a new US opinion but the edit war on that one was insane. We need more accountability for this for sure.
Wagner has already had a taste of FAFO with the battle of Khasham. Does anyone on the Russian side think crossing into Poland will end any better for them with all of NATO responding?
The unfortunate reality of war is it breaks people. The US has had to deal with this same thing happening after Iraq and Afghanistan. Everyone who goes to a war zone is changed.
I’m just waiting for them to cross the border and for Poland to call for an Article 5 intervention against Russia and Belarus. I’m tired of watching the war in Ukraine, and I want to see it end, and that’s one way to see it end in less than a month.
Fuck Russia and fuck Belarus for being aggressive, imperialist assholes.
I want to see it end, and that’s one way to see it end in less than a month.
so you think western powers, who have exhausted their ammo and munitions stockpiles by sending them to be wasted/destroyed in ukraine will suddenly “end the war in less than a month” under a full hot war? lol you have no idea what you’re talking about
Lmao if you think the West has no ability to fight you’re delusional. In one week, the air war would be over and the USAF would be conducting close air support runs for the UAF. In two, Minsk would fall to US and Polish combined arms forces. And in three, Russia would be pushed out of Ukraine as Western ground forces reached their front lines and broke through or flanked them.
Russia has been slowly losing a war, with 95% or more of their armed forces committed, against the second poorest country in Europe, supplied with spare and obsolete arms from the West. They would crumble like paper against NATO. And they know it.
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