...So you pick up a history book to figure out US's angle
From Peter Dale Scotts: American War Machine-Deep Politics, The Cia and the Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
TL:DR the US turned Burma-Laos and Thailand into a heroin growing triangle (The Golden Triangle) much like they did with the Mafia in Sicily and Marseilles.
The Drug traffickers and drug money became a huge way of CIA to implant bourgeois ideology and suppress communists and the growing popularity of the PRC. They even used ex-Nazis as agents for drug smuggling. It also gave US unfettered access to Myanmars tungsten reserves.
This enitre coalition was directed at China of course.
I'm ignorant of it, but my left wing friends who know Myanmar refuse to call it Myanmar. Something about Myanmar being the name chosen by the military government.
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Maybe. I'm literally just repeating hearsay at this point.
Better than my left-wing friend who insisted to me that it is spelled Myanmar but pronounced Burma lol. Gonna have to own him on this one later