I don't know nearly enough about the different sides here, but a quick skim of the Wikipedia page for the Karen National Union and the National Unity Consultative Council that they're members of makes it sound like they're pro-democratic and anti-racist, so, yeah - keep kicking military dictatorship ass!
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I think it’s important to know that they’re succeeding even without military aid from the US, and despite the junta (military coup) getting help from China and Russia.
Doesn’t make sense that the US would have to send Israel billions to fight a country that is hundreds of times poorer than Israel.
Isn't the Junta a direct consequence of western meddling in Myanmar's affairs? Why would the US fund the counter part to their own creation?
they're a military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government. this coup was largely in response to US sanctions on military officials resulting from Rohingya genocide and a loss of power in the 2020 elections. so, you could say that it was a result of US meddling in the same way the israeli/palestine confict is or even 9/11 was.
The Palestinian issue is 100% a western creation, so I'm not sure that's the example you're wanting to pick...
Thing is the Rohingya genocide is a direct consequence of Aung San Suu Kyi's release, which you may remember was the political prisoner darling for human rights of the western world.
it's definitely a western creation, but not wholly a US creation. British and French started it all, and the US' involvement with peace treaties created a backlash resulting in assassination of Rabin and the rise of Netanyahu.
how was her release related?
When she ascended to the office of state counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi drew criticism from several countries, organisations and figures over Myanmar's inaction in response to the genocide of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and refusal to acknowledge that the Myanmar's military has committed massacres
That’s far from the genocide being a direct consequence of her release. Actually, that doesn’t say that at all
One of the issues with the resistance is that they're an alliance of a lot of smaller groups. So if they win, there's the potential risk that they eventually all go against each other instead of transitioning to a proper government. The current junta however has been involved in a number of scandals & genocide over the past years that you might've heard about. I guess things eventually got bad enough.