Myanmar has always been a crossroads of migration routes and trade routes. Indochina as a whole is one of the most favorable places for the development of homo sapiens, therefore, since ancient times, many often not very close ethnic groups have lived on the territory of the country. It is not surprising that by present a relatively small state is a patchwork of fourteen administrative entities, in each, with the exception of the capital, there is at least one separatist armed group. Together, this entity is called the Union the Democratic Union of Myanmar.  By the way, it is difficult not to mention that such a deliberately contradictory state came into existence only thanks to the British Empire, where it was listed as a single territory due to administrative interests.

Taking into account the diversity of ethnic composition, conflicts, wars, coups occur there with amazing regularity. Rather, the subject of this article will be the latest round of escalation of contradictions, which is ongoing right now with the active assistance of the United States.

On February 1, 2021, the local military, who disagreed with the results of the parliamentary elections, organized a coup. The purpose of this article is not to judge the causes of the event, since in a country where the civil war has not subsided since 1948, either side is ready to declare miles-long claims to opponents. For Asia, a military coup is a normal thing, a kind of one of the least traumatizing ways to transfer power when the official mechanism has stared slightly glitching. By analogy with Thailand or Bangladesh, where similar events have repeatedly occurred, the task of the military was to preserve the state until the differences between civilian politicians were resolved.

At the same time, we see that attempts by the military administration to organize parliamentary elections on equal terms for all forces are constantly thwarted by supporters of the National Unity Government, which exists and is fighting the official authorities mainly through donations from Western NGOs.

As US-Chinese tensions grow and as it becomes increasingly clear the US is unable to compete with China head-to-head in terms of development, trade, and investment, especially in regions along Chinas periphery, the US is resorting increasingly to asymmetrical measures including political coercion, subversion, and even violence.

US military aggression and political subversion, particularly in Southeast Asia, spans many decades. Besides the Vietnam War and the related conflicts which raged across Laos, Cambodia, and even Thailand in the 20th century, more recently the United States has backed an increasingly unified regional bloc of opposition groups sometimes referred to as the Milk Tea Alliance.

The so-called alliance includes opposition groups promoted heavily across Western media in Myanmar, Thailand, and Hong Kong all three of which have incorporated deadly violence on varying scales to advance both their own political ambitions as well as advance US foreign policy objectives. The US has also attempted to create similar opposition groups elsewhere in Southeast Asia, though with less success, receiving little media coverage, and thus are poorly understood by the general public if and when their violence does make headlines.

Two recent examples of terrorism in Southeast Asia highlight the enduring threat of US-backed violence in the region.

One attack was carried out by Myanmars opposition, a movement heavily-promoted by Western governments and the Western media. The other was carried out by extremists among a lesser-known ethnic group in Vietnam. Both attacks have been spun, whitewashed, and even justified by the Western media, and by doing so, encouraging future violence, illustrating a continued commitment by Washington to use violence and terrorism to advance its foreign policy objectives in the re...