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Guest: Kayleigh Long, journalist

For non-subscribers, here is a 25+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 101 with Myanmar-based journalist Kayleigh Long on the the Rohingya crisis and the grim history and politics of the region. The story we're being told is that Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi isn't the peaceful Buddhist that the West made her out to be, and the Rohingya mass expulsions suddenly just happened without context. We look into the brutal British legacy in Burma (Myanmar), the history of ethnic tensions in the part of the Empire where today Rakhine death squads are expelling Rohingya, the mirror Chittagong Hills Tract conflict story ignored by our media, and the CIA-backed Chinese Nationalist KMT army that spent years in northeast Burma running a heroin narco-state...

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Ben Hosen

Trying like hell to find a shareable version of Conger's "We're Wrong". Really good stuff, I'd love to torture my normie friends with it.

Ben Hosen

If not clear: love the music, hate my normie friends.

Enre

Have you guys read Gary Shteyngart's novel Absurdistan? It touches on most of the topics of this show: Russia, sectarian conflict, corrupt and hypocritical western approaches to geopolitics, etc. And it's hilarious. This episode, and the politics of Myanmar more generally remind me a part in that novel where the sophisticated western-educated son of a russian oligarch protagonist is offered a cabinet position in the sectarian rebel shadow government of a fictional post-soviet caucasus republic. Allowed to make up his own position, he chooses "minister of multiculturalism". However there isn't an exact translation into Russian or the local language and the local kleptocrats and sectarian militia leaders don't really understand the concept, so his title is changed to the more familiar "Commissar on the Nationalities Question".