> Q said military was the only way. He never said anything in regards to whose military. We just assumed it meant US military.
KEK.
I missed that!
Soldiers are on the streets, domestic and international media has been taken off the air, and communications in Myanmar’s capital of Naypyidaw are reportedly down.
The Tatmadaw’s commander-in-chief, General Min Aung Hlaing, announced he was assuming power, alleging fraud in the general election held in 2020 in which Suu Kyi’s party expanded its parliamentary majority at the expense of the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party.
Hlaing has stated he may revoke parts of a 2008 constitution and will ostensibly hold new elections in a year. The coup has received widespread international condemnation.
Though the 2020 elections had flaws—particularly regarding their exclusion of ethnic minorities—the military’s powerplay isn’t about expanding enfranchisement. It’s nothing less than a bid to reassert the military’s nearly six decades of dominance over Myanmar politics.
(Forbes is owned by China.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2021/02/01/is-history-repeating-itself-in-myanmar-military-coup/?sh=7e6be7867f6c