The Most Heroic Generation?

It's in Burma — Not the West

Beautiful, ethical, aware, highly-motivated young people are coming together to struggle for Freedom and Human dignity — which are intrinsically linked.

They have made extreme sacrifices, demonstrating a high level of Loyalty. They know that Freedom cannot emerge nor endure without enthusiastic commitment.

And we know that true Loyalty, in turn, cannot exist without Freedom.

That means that in the contest over Myanmar’s future, the pro-democracy, anti-junta forces have a permanent spiritual advantage. Both sides recognize it: the esprit de corps of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) boosts their effectiveness vis-à-vis the soldier-slaves of the military junta, who receive support from Beijing, Moscow, and Pyongyang.

May 2024

A veteran of the pro-democracy, anti-junta struggle, in the Chin region of Burma (Myanmar). Several of the images in this article were taken from a DW documentary.

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Brian Luedke MSN RN

Thankfully, in countries like the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, students have organized giant fundraisers in favor of Burma and Ukraine — in view of extending liberty’s blessings across the globe, and of undoing the modern-day Axis of aggressive dictatorships. Unlike angry, counterproductive protests of past decades, these have been optimistic, constructive celebrations of culture and freedom.

Sorry, that’s what should be happening — not the reality.

The reality is that in the fattened, complacent countries of the West, society passively allows young people to be brainwashed by the extremism of unethical professors, the deceit of smug pseudo-journalists (many of whom are subsidized by taxes), and the disinformation campaigns bankrolled by hostile dictatorships.

Dr. Amos Dawt Za Hmung and his wife Rebecca (a nurse) assist a patient in Thantlang, Chinland, Myanmar. ABC News (Australia) article on them.

To illustrate the scale of the systemic rot: this week at Harvard, cult-students raised a banner to glorify jihadist rape and Arab supremacist ideology, on a flagpole intended for the Stars and Stripes. At Columbia and many other universities, an alliance of Communists and Islamists openly calls for the mass slaughter of Jews, especially Israelis, demanding a “global Intifada” and renaming campus buildings “Intifada Hall.” The word “Intifada” refers to the murder of civilians for terrorist objectives.

(Considering that Islamists and Communists cannot even refrain from murdering “heretical” factions within their respective faiths, one must anticipate an inevitable final showdown between Red and Green, subsequent a hypothetical successful torching of the rest of society.)

Ruthless foreign tyrants and terrorists applaud the hate, ignorance, and antisemitism of these zombified sheep-followers.

The governments of the U.S. and its allies eagerly employ the cultists exiting “elite” universities and install them in influential posts within the foreign ministries and other bureaucracies. Politicians adjust to the new dispensation, adopting a “both sides” approach or explicitly asserting that democracies should emulate oppressive regimes.

Northwestern University chose to “negotiate” with violent agitators pushing Arab supremacy ideology. In exchange for the temporary removal of a few tents from a campus lawn, it has promised semi-permanent special privileges demanded by pro-Hamas militants, thereby rewarding and encouraging Islamist intolerance and antisemitism. The Biden administration is considering massively importing the radicalized residents of Gaza into the U.S.

Tyrants who torture political dissenters and invade neighbors — along with long-bearded jihadists who toss gays off rooftops — are supposedly the new good guys.

“Make it make sense,” the reader might be thinking. But since when has any death-cult ideology aligned with logic, evidence, or ethics? It’s the psychological aspect and manipulation that make sense, not ideas embodied by the chanting and circular logic.

One insight has become undeniable: without a top-level paradigm to guide analysis and decision-making — and the 4D Star paradigm is the only contender; nothing else even exists in its ballpark — foreign tyrants and domestic extremists find ways to turn screws, to amplify confusion, to encourage disunity.

Sodiers of the Chinland Defense Force, in Western Burma (Myanmar), in formation

In the evening, the soldiers relax in the barracks

Unity, indeed, is key for the emergence of a resilient free society. “Unity” does not denote unquestioning agreement on policies and strategies. But it does presuppose accord on core Human values, a sense of shared destiny, and mutual Loyalty.

In western Burma, the Chin ethnicity, one of the country’s smaller groups, has achieved military success out of proportion to its size.

The Chinland Defense Force (CDF) — affiliated with the nationwide PDF, which remains loyal to the elected parliament that was illegally disbanded by the military in 2021 — has had several military successes against the Tatmadaw, the name of the junta’s army.

While forces affiliated with larger ethnicities have sometimes fallen into internecine struggles that ultimately serve the regime, in Chinland there has been relative unity.

The hospital in Tatmadaw, Chinland, Burma

Ukraine’s influence: Drone operators affiliated with the People’s Defense Force (PDF) are fighting the Beijing-backed tyrant

The Chin ethnic group — which happens to be overwhelmingly Christian — also benefits from emotional and spiritual Connectivity that extends into its substantial diaspora.

With hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people, and with the regional economy disrupted, its pro-democracy forces have few resources with which to fight the brutal tyranny of the junta. Thus, Chin émigrés, especially in the United States, send money home to assist with humanitarian efforts and the liberation struggle.

Using Facebook, Zoom, and other internet-based platforms, the Chin diaspora engages Communication to arrange for resources to be transferred back to their communities of origin.

In North America, supporters of the Chinland Defense Force hold a Zoom call and highlight a phone number for financial contributions via Zelle.

Empowered by this supportive Organization, activists and community leaders have the ability to explore and to Innovate — they find novel methods of outflanking and outsmarting the soldier-slaves; new ways to extend solidarity in refugee relief, healthcare, and education.

Meanwhile, the Tatmadaw, the forces opposing freedom, rely on rigid, uncreative, unethical methods. This is the persistent pattern associated with oppressive regimes — it’s not some surprising coincidence.

On 25 Apr 2024, fighter-jets of the military junta bombed WunMaThuu Hospital in Min Dat Township, Chinland, murdering patients and staff. In Syria, Ukraine, Israel, and Burma, the cohort of dictators captained by Beijing-Moscow-Tehran seeks to maximize civilian suffering — usually via traditional savagery, but sometimes by using human shields or hostage terrorism. Extremist professors and dishonest pseudo-journalists nevertheless pretend not to understand this dynamic. They assault the truth and present tyrants and terrorists as freedom fighters.

On 24 April 2024, the military regime bombed the village of Dhammasa, intentionally targeting civilian areas, in line with the junta’s standard practice.

The Axis of aggressive, oppressive dictators, as it exists in 2024

The sluggish and confused West has belatedly and insufficiently begun to support the pro-democracy forces in Burma, as evidenced by the 2023 BURMA Act passed by the U.S. Congress.

But in general, lacking insight and allowing itself to be brain-scrambled by the malevolent internal and external forces described above, somehow the Free World has adopted the losing strategy of meager and half-hearted defense of freedom — in the face of aggressive, expansionist dictatorships.

A soldier of the Chinland Defense Force plays a guitar in the barracks

Sadly, in NATO countries, even among people who still understand something about freedom, the wrong lessons have been “learned” from history.

Massive blood and treasure were invested in places — like Iraq and Afghanistan — with a low level of Human development and with deeply-rooted undemocratic traditions.

Supposedly, negative outcomes in those places mean that the Free World should neglect other national struggles characterized by a relatively high level of determination, awareness, and attachment to democracy.

The relative success of the Chin struggle reflects the synergistic strength of the 2D Level elements of the 4D Star paradigm: Human dignity and development, Freedom, enthusiastic Loyalty, Innovation, Organization, Communication, and Connectivity.

If we zoom out and acknowledge the global struggle taking place, we must recognize the PDF in Burma not as participants in some random war, but as important allies in our era’s contest between Freedom and Oppression.

Even if we lack compassion for these heroes — which would reflect inadequate virtue and imagination on our part — we should still support the defense of the Far Frontier, because lines of control are ever-changing and can creep inward, before eventually collapsing inward.

Defending the Far Frontier and re-imposing ethical order in our own regions represent two inseparable components of our grand strategy. No other viable options exist.

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It's in Burma — Not the West

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