.WAR LINES are transforming quickly in Myanmar. Protection troops– consisting of dozens factions, many with competing goals– have gained a series of victories over the army, which handles the federal government. The defeat of the junta, which organized a successful stroke against the civilian government in February 2021, is not either likely nor certain, yet it is no more unimaginable.
Yet triumph for the protection, ragged as it is actually, could possibly drop Myanmar in to even greater disarray. After much more than 3 years of battling, what is happening?