Why now? Because they have finished rigging everything for this to happen. And the dictator running the junta - Min Aung Hlaing - have always had the desire to be called “President” of the country. Head of Junta isn’t sexy enough for him. And this election will force some of the countries to recognize the military government (who have their own political party) allowing him to go on overseas as head of state and host foreign dignitaries on visits in Burma. Currently, the only countries he can visit are Russia and Belarussia as head of state. Even China while allowing him to visit for the first time this year didn’t host him as head of state but just another foreign dignitary at a regional meet in a minor city. He’s an ass who’s in love with the trappings of being president of a country.

The military’s ambition was always to legitimize their rule through an election system that’s rigged in their favor - the constitution was written by them, the electoral system was set up by them. They won the first election in 2011, but to their surprise, lost to the NLD in 2016. They thought they would win in it in 2021 with an ultra-nationalist policy, but again lost to NLD so they staged the coup. This time they’ve banned most of the opposition parties, disqualified them from running and put them in jails, and made conditions that are almost impossible for others to participate in the election. And on top of that, I am sure they will cheat. This will legitimize their rule. They will seek recognition from other nations on the back of this election. China is pushing for elections too for whatever reason.

In the early days of the coup, Burmese people naively asked for US intervention of the coup, in similar ways we saw the US intervene in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea in the decades past that led to a democracy. The cynical and popular answer was that Burma held no oil, i.e. no strategic value for the US. Rare earths may soon change that.

While all the production from Burma goes to China for processing due to proximity to China, there is a way for the exports to be coursed to Thailand, via the same routes opium and other narcotics have been shipped out of Burma in the decades since CIA encouraged opium farming in Eastern Burma to finance the Chinese Republican army fighting the Red Army.

Or like the Chinese, he will play both sides - the junta and the rebels.

Honestly, someone hurry up and launch an alternative! Chinese are setting up one but I wouldn’t trust them either.

So much for “liberal” government.

Why has liberal-ruled Britain become attack dogs for Israel?

Check the article body.

My guess is US air bases in Washington were closer to Vancouver so Norad activated their combat aircraft. I think this shows how tightly integrated US and Canadian air defenses are. I think we better draw up some plans in case US becomes the enemy.

True, though it doesn’t base F18s for this kind of mission.

CFB Comox is the RCAF’s primary air defence installation on Canada’s Pacific coast and serves as the home base for maritime patrol / anti-submarine aircraft and search and rescue (SAR) aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotary-wing .

So I wonder why we don’t have an air base in BC.

Didn’t she cut funding for fire fighting in the months prior to this fire?

How has this impacted the type of development, and price of housing in BC so far?

Is this the onion?

Chinese don’t look at green energy in the same way West does. It is about energy SECURITY. They don’t have to IMPORT any gas or oil in order to produce it. The same goes with coal - they have it in abundance, and they will keep using it. It is the main source of their power grid.

lol you’re right. that’s probably the latter.

Yeah this is not good news for economy nor over-all international trade relations. So far US and Trump has been the only one using tariffs. Once we go this route other nations will employ the same tactics against us - what’s going to stop China from imposing tariffs on Canadian exports to China? We are already running a deficit with them.

And why is Carney using tariffs at a time when there are serious threats to international trade regime?

Your patronizing tone is ironic in light of your ignorance. You don’t understand anything. That is the problem and issue. The crusades, the inquisitions, the “residential schools” in Canada etc were conducted BY priests, monks and officials of the church in the name of the religion. None of these militant monks were involved in these heinous crimes. They are absolutely guilty of rhetoric. And again, they are few and far in between in Myanmar. All the articles lead to just a handful of monks and a small group of their followers all of whom are military backed. It IS NOT wide-spread.

I can read and watch and understand what these militant monks have been saying and doing while you haven’t so your ASSUMPTION is again coming from absolute ignorance as are your arguments.

And it isn’t a coincidence that since 2017 when military conducted the Rohingya campaign and the populace knew what they were up to, there has been ZERO incident of racially or religiously motivated riots in Myanmar while these are still a regular occurance in South Asia.

Every religion can be twisted which is MY WORDS. But these monks did NOT cite any Buddhist teaching to the exclusion of others or one that promotes other’s death to its benefit. Once again, you are wrong to say that Buddhist teachings were used to justify killings - it is the men in robes who called for it, not the teachings itself. And these monks did not CITE any Buddhist teachings to justify them. Stop spreading falsehoods and hate without knowledge. This is the kind of shit MAGA lives on and you’re doing it here.

There are extremists in every religion is there not just as there are in every people? These Rohingyas committed genocide killing 99 Hindus in the very same month that illegal fascist military massacred over 100 Rohingyas during their insurgency campaign in 2017 Amnesty International. Let me guess that you are not familiar with the politics of Myanmar. The current military leader and the military’s political wing’s strategy has been to replicate Indian Hindu nationalist party’s strategy by wrapping themselves in ultra nationalist and religious ideology to win the elections. It was the military and its political wing who promoted and funded those militant monks - to this day. Yet those monks still remain a minority amongst the monk population and their following remains scant and small to this very day in Myanmar. There were many false-flag operations that were conducted in Myanmar by the military spreading rumours of rapes in one community by members of the other community or desecration of religious edifices which led to a few riots back then. When the Rohingya militants attacked several police stations and border posts in Arakan in 2017 successfully, this provided the military with the pretext to conduct a sweeping military campaign that created the current Rohingya refugee crisis and the earlier cited massacre. In the military-written constitution in Myanmar, the military is completely INDEPENDENT of the government and does not answer to the parliament or the prime minister. This campaign like every military campaigns all over the country are and were conducted without consultation of then civilian government, and done in support of their (military’s) political strategy. However that political strategy FAILED to win them much votes at all as the elections in late 2020 were won overwhelmingly by the NLD which was a clear REPUDIATION of the military’s ultra nationalist religious stand by the country’s vast majority BUDDHIST population. NLD was about to ascend to power for their 2nd consecutive term in early 2021 when the same military leader who ordered the brutal repressive campaign in Arakan staged a coup to seize the power he couldn’t seize through democratic means. The actions of this barbaric military junta whose leaders tries to atone for their sins by promoting a small group of militant monks does NOT count as blanket action by the entire “buddhist” majority population whose very voice through elections and through civil disobedience had made clear their disdain for the military’s actions. So do not accuse and falsely colour an ENTIRE population of something they have clearly stated in many unequivocal ways where they stand.

I have no interest in body count of each religion, as that’s just a pissing match that you’re taking exception to.