CHECK OUT MY SPONSOR: Rocket money go to www.rocketmoney.com/hoe and use my code hoe This is the full story of the myanmar civil war Myanmar is now four years into a civil war that shows no sign of abating. Following an October 2023 offensive in the north-eastern state Shan, the military junta, known as the State Administrative Council (SAC), lost control over swathes of territory on the border with China. In early April the border town Myawaddy, an important transit point for the flow of goods between Thailand and Myanmar, fell under the control of the Karen people, an ethnic minority group that has been battling the central government for decades. As of late April, Myawaddy was back under SAC control. The situation remains volatile. On the other side of Myanmar, on the western border with Bangladesh, an armed ethnic group named the Arakan Army is giving the SAC military a hard time. The governing junta is on the backfoot and under immense pressure in Myanmar's border regions, only able to launch retaliatory attacks from the air or with long-range artillery. Sources: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/myanmar-history-coup-military-rule-ethnic-conflict-rohingya https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/11/myanmar-economy-crisis-poverty-inflation/ https://myanmar.iiss.org/analysis/dryzone https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/09/05/myanmars-military-junta-is-battered-by-chinese-backed-forces https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/08/myanmars-junta-loses-control-north-chinas-influence-grows https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/china-calls-for-elections-to-defuse-myanmar-civil-war/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/05/myanmar-military-onslaught-in-eastern-states-amounts-to-collective-punishment/ BUY MY COFFEE IT’S DELICIOUS https://tablowroastingco.com/products/stakuyi-lewis-dark Travel with me Travel to Germany with me https://trovatrip.com/trip/europe/germany-and-austria/germany-with-steven-bell-nov-2024 Subscribe to my channels and let me know what more you would like to see. We organize games through discord: https://discord.gg/BJsRA6UpXx Twitch https://twitch.tv/stakuyi Podcast: https://historyofeverythingpodcast.com/