captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

LOL

Five years ago, Washington imposed sanctions on Myanmar’s military leadership and downgraded diplomatic ties following a 2021 coup that ousted an elected government. This year, however, senior Trump administration officials have travelled to Tokyo and Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, for talks with coup leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing. The goals of the diplomacy include countering China’s influence in the region and potentially gaining access to Myanmar’s “bountiful rare earth resources”, according to a US State Department document. But the outreach has raised concerns among human rights advocates that Washington’s pursuit of strategic interests could help rehabilitate a military leadership accused of widespread atrocities.

why uphold an international rules based law and order when you could get in bed with fascists and genocidaires instead

That’s been the essence of much of American foreign policy since the start of the 20th century.

Empires
Bronze Age

Fixed :)