...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

p.78

p.79

p.80

p.81

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.

  • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The way I've heard Aung San Suu Kyi pronounce it is as two syllables, myah-MAHR, with maybe a light nasally ng on the first syllable and not a lot of R sound at the end. Wikipedia seems to agree: [mjəmà]

    After hearing that both MEE-ann-mahr and MAI-ann-mahr sound incredibly grating.

    But I suppose it's the same as how everyone pronounces 東京 as TOKE-ee-oh instead of tou-kyou.