The Burma Situation

[The Feral Underclass]

I was thinking the other day what would happen if a western country like Britain decided to use it's military to target specific regime infrastructure such as military bases, palaces etc?

What would the reaction of the world community be to that and how do you think the Burmese Junta would react?

[spartan]

I dont think Britain nowadays has the guts to do something like that on it's own. Perhaps with American approval and/or support? But more than likely something like that would be led by the USA.

[Tru Revolutionary]

I agree. It seems like the US has control over what wars the western nations fight. I think the even the UN would need US approval just to place troops anywhere. If they did not have it, who knows what might happen. It's kinda scary.

[Comrade_Scott]

the third world would be up in arms and american civilians would be needlessly hated or killed. china would see that as an action to curb them millitarily and do some stupid shit, the world would unite against the states and boo them as unfortunately the phrase the enemy of my enemy is my friend, since iraq it matters not the reason why american govt intervines it will be seen as them streching there imperialist arms so in short it would fail

[LSD]

Hey, TAT, I thought you'd resolved to only post in Chit-Chat?


I was thinking the other day what would happen if a western country like Britain decided to use it's military to target specific regime infrastructure such as military bases, palaces etc?

Yugoslavia.


What would the reaction of the world community be to that

They'd be pissed, they usually are when big countries bomb little countries without any warning or provocation.

At least there was an excuse with Iraq and Afghanistan, no one would believe that Myanmar was posing a threat to Britain, America, or anyone else.

Which would mean that any attack would have to be defended on "moral" grounds, a dubious prospect to say the least. "Nation building" has taken an enormous hit over the past couple of years; Myanmar's neighbours would probably be the first to condemn any attack, worried about the inevitable stream of refugees and regional destabilization.

In fact, I can't think of a single country that would support such a move, not even the US -- which is kind of sad, since the UK so blindly followed them into Iraq. Nobody cares enough about Myanmar, or is invested enough to give a damn.

But everyone's obsessed with sovereignty.


the third world would be up in arms

um...no.

First of all, there isn't going to be a "third world war", there can't be. Like it or not, MAD pretty much assures that no direct war between great powers can occur anymore.

Oh there are undoubtably wars to come, but the days of the superpower conflict are over.

Not to mention that no one is going to launch a "world war" over Myanmar. :rolleyes:

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Yes, the imperialists were, in practice, relatively okay with the government in Myanmar.. that is, until China began plans to pipe into natural gas reserves there. It wasn't long after that Bush moved for sanctions, and then, almost like magic (yeah right) the monks started their 'uprising.' Of course the liberals, and many 'leftists,' have tailed right along with the monks and Bush..

If you're on the same side of an issue as Bush, you may want to reconsider your position.. It's sort of like the leftists who supported the fake Solidarity "union" in Poland, without paying attention to the fact that union-busting Reagan was in love with that organization..

[ComradeR]

Nothing but colonization can come from imperialist intervention. You would be a fool to believe that the imperialists have any peoples wellbeing at heart, imperialists only intervene if it serves their interests and far more people would suffer and die as a result of an imperialist intervention then from what is happening right now in Myanmar. Also like CompañeroDeLibertad pointed out the timing of this "Monk uprising" is rather suspicious.

um...no.

First of all, there isn't going to be a "third world war", there can't be. Like it or not, MAD pretty much assures that no direct war between great powers can occur anymore.

Oh there are undoubtably wars to come, but the days of the superpower conflict are over.

Not to mention that no one is going to launch a "world war" over Myanmar. :rolleyes:
Um I think he was referring to the "third world" country's being up in arms rather then a third world war.