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Oh hell no, we don't need THREE major active conflicts!
Three??? Pssssshhhhh, those are rookie numbers son! Yo Mexico! Canada! Lets throw hands! Fuck it!
That would be 4, no?
Myanmar? Did I miss some news?
The country has been in civil war since the army forcefully took power.
Well yeah but that is iirc over a decade ago already
A few years. About 1 more than the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, if I remember correctly
Noooooh, that has been going on for much, much longer than that. The one that happened before Ukraine was just the nth time that there was a coup and mass murders and what not.
I remember Rambo 4 being there and showing actually quite well the horrors that were happening there in the years before that movie, andni remember thinking good on Stallone to shine a light on that in his own way
Yes, there have been problems for a long time there, but then Myanmar was apparently on a path to democracy, but then the coup happened, so now there are problems again. It's the current civil war I'm referring to.
Sudan is pretty globally involved right now. Does Myanmar have foreign backing too?
Not that I know of. I understand you wouldn't consider it a major conflict, in this regard.
Basically the man-child that runs that place sees others getting attention and got jealous.
"The situation at that time was that the DMZ was now overgrown with trees and the MDL mark was not clearly visible," Lee said.
"There was no road, and the (North Korean soldiers) were moving through the bushes, and we were observing (them) even before they got close to the MDL," Lee said.
"We believe that they did not intend to invade, considering that they immediately moved northward after the warning broadcasts and warning shots."
They should have been shot. North Korean soldiers have previously used such incursions to plant land mines on patrol routes.
Sure is brave of you to call for escalations of war an ocean away.
damn, where the marksmanship at?? Authoritarians everywhere getting brave and bold, almost time to remind them what happens when the rest of us pick up arms against the nazi/adjacent fucks
Last time we bombed them into the stone age. Maybe we send them back. It's impressive they still have the balls I'll give them that.
Huh, I wonder if murdering 20% of their population could inform their current hostility towards the US and its puppet states.
Nah, must just be that they're bad evil authoritarians who don't like freedom democracy.
What if they really are just evil authoritarians who don't like freedom and democracy? There is a reason they were bombed into the stone age in the first place. That reason is because they were evil communists who don't like democracy. They messed with our "puppet state" and they found out quickly why it was a bad idea. The puppet state now prospers because democracy is the best.