Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Myanmar police defect to anti-government militias as civil war looms - BBC News" video.

  1. Many fear any outside intervention will lead to China backing the military government.
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  2.  @JR-vc4gm  another comment above mentioned that asean rules prevent members from interfering with internal conflicts.
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  3. The only real stolen election from last year, the military lied about election fraud, probably inspired by trump’s sore loser idiocy that undermined our role as the bastion of democracy for the world.
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  4. China would likely block any UN intervention, and Myanmar isn’t a NATO member state. USA is no longer willing to be the world police.
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  5.  @888jucu  yeah, China does the same with North Korea, they just ignore the sanctions and get no repercussions, because no one wants to be on China’s bad side.
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