Why the US wants unrest in Myanmar.

When two friends out of convenience want to fight a common enemy the easiest way to turn those two “friends” against each other is to turn their attention to an object they both desire. The friends out of convenience are China and India, object of their desire is Myanmar and their enemy is the USA.

The USA’s economic strength and world influence is greatly threatened by both India and China and there is strength in numbers; numbers that the USA cannot compete against. Therefore, what the USA would like to do is divide those numbers and weaken its enemies.

This is where Myanmar comes in. Myanmar is a resource rich country and also one important to both China and India.

China, because, it would like to control Myanmar for its resources and exert influence along the troubled Eastern states with the possibility of Chinese troops all along the Indian border. India because it surely would also like easy access to Myanmar resources and of course to keep Chinese troops from amassing along its border.

By instigating unrest in Myanmar and/or at the very least quietly cheering it on, the US now has its plan in action. While the military dictatorship is not the best thing for Myanmar, it is the thing holding it together, if there is any rush to democracy the many factions that have fought each other in the past and wants independence would turn on each other. Myanmar would erupt and the flood gates would open to unrest, the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan.

This unrest would keep both India and China bogged down in Myanmar trying to influence the various factions and keeping each other away from their respective borders. This would take enormous resources from both countries and distract from their main objective of dethroning the USA as the world’s number one economic power.

Trade embargos never helped the poor of any country and will not now, so all of these calls by the US for such will just make things worse and further their cause. Therefore, the USA is quietly cheering on the breakup of Myanmar by its call for instant democracy in an effort to distract two “friends” who are challenging it for world economic dominance.

Will Myanmar become China’s and India’s Afghanistan or Iraq? We will have to wait and see how this plays out.