Personally, I'm not very empathetic to the protestors, the majority of whom were very happy to genocide the Rohingyas. But then again military juntas aren't very poggers, and these are the people who actually committed the genocide. What do yall think?
As far as I understand, the ousted president is responsible for a genocide, but the people who did the coup are more responsible for a genocide.
It's ok to not have any strong feelings about it, because they're both bad, but I question why anyone here would think being against the protests / in favor of the junta is good.
idk but they have gas and oil pipelines connected to china, so expect the US to swoop in soon
As far as I've heard, the military coup represents a more pro-US or at least anti-China faction while the protesters represent a coalition of liberals and what remains of Myanmar's left. The protesters are probably the better faction, but they could certainly get coopted even if they were successful in resisting the military.
Calling it a coup implies that the military junta wasn't already in power.
