Remember when libs blamed the Myanmar military’s coup on China somehow did fucking protests not against the military junta, but fucking China. Now Chinese backed ethnic militias are literally going to war with the military government. I wonder if they’ll do a 180° and claim “actually the military junta are the good guys”.
But the offensive was also widely recognized as an effort by the MNDAA to regain control of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone by ousting a rival Kokang group backed by the military government from its seat of power.
Peng Deren, the MNDAA commander, said in a New Year’s speech published by The Kokang, an affiliated online media site, that the alliance had seized over 250 military targets and five border crossings with China. He said more than 300 cyberscam centers were raided and more than 40,000 Chinese involved in the operations were repatriated.
Apparently the government is supporting rival warlords in the region, and one of their big sources of revenue is running online scams… and maybe trafficking people into doing that work?
There are a lot of seams in Myanmar, and they don’t look that sturdy.
It said 2,389 military personnel — including six brigadier generals — and their family members had surrendered by Friday and that all were evacuated to safety.
Damn. Every video I’ve seen from Myanmar is like three teenagers with one homemade rifle trying to take out individual soldiers in small ambushes. They must have really built up their capabilities for an offensive like this.
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