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It Could Happen Here Weekly 70

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Strategy of Divide and Conquer Is Front and Center

Myanmar's military has been at war with its own people for 70 years. Their tactical strategy is essentially one of social isolation, division and ensuring as much human suffering as possible so as to pacify a population into submission. And ironically by pushing that so hard they've done the complete opposite which has forced people to form like a popular front against them. I find it really fascinating how like EAOs and PDFs are kind of vaguely underneath that a unified command at this point.

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