Our new nuclear enemy: Myanmar?

[Catfish]

Myanmar,
it was called Burma or Birma not so long ago ?
Well the Burma dictatorship is indeed a very bad one, maybe as bad as North Corea but not quite so badly brainwashing and indoctrinating its inhabitants.

Burma was not paid and equipped weapon-wise by the US before, i wonder if this makes a difference to other states like Afghanistan, Iran/Persia, Iraq. But it would provide some ports vital for China, or the US likewise. If it also has any resources like oil there can be no doubt where the next enemy is ... "to an imperial [nation] nothing is inconsistent which is expedient"

Greetings,
Catfish

[Oberon]

Hmm, could be the beginnings of a domino effect here. If I were the Bangladeshi government I'd be looking for some reassurances from India or Pakistan that they would protect Bangladesh with their nuclear umbrella because tensions between Bangladesh and Burma aren't exactly low.

Dowly raises good points, and being in a western country that has nuclear weapons at the ready, I automatically believe that no other nations can be trusted with them, however the world seems powerless to prevent this, and indeed it is, after all one can dismantle the hardware side of the program but you cannot put the genie back in the bottle now that it is out.

Ironic, perhaps soon we will be at a point where we are more likely to face nuclear attack than at any point during the Cold War (with the possible exception of the Cuban missile crisis).

What can one do? Bombing them would only strengthen their resolve to get on a level playing field, and embargoing them would just make the people suffer and do nothing to prevent the nuclear program.

What a bloody headache.

Oh...and TLAM Strike...MY TRUCK IS LOADED!

"The toughest Burmese bandit, could never understand it..."

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Now why does that not surprise me.

BTW what does NK do for money, apart from consultancy work on missiles etc.

Does NK produce and sell drugs?

Yes they do (apparently) a DPRK freighter was caught with drugs in international waters. The RAAF used it as target practice.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

What is ethnic Burmese?

Not sure what its called but the ethnic group of the goverment leadership. Anyone who is for example Han Chinese or Indian in ethniciy is not allow to be a citizen of Myanmar.

Not sure what its called but the ethnic group of the goverment leadership. Anyone who is for example Han Chinese or Indian in ethniciy is not allow to be a citizen of Myanmar.

Oh dear.
Would you like to check again on all the chinese or all the han that are or are not considered official ethnicities in Burma, then could you do it with all the Indian ethnicities though I don't know if you want the indian and other modern breakdowns or the "indian" pre independance ethnicities.
You do have a point about the dictatorships oppresion of minorities, but you vastly overstate and oversimplify it .....plus of course ignore that these issues existed before the military juntas took power and that the dictatorship does in fact oppress everyone regardless of ethnicity if it fels like doing so.