Myanmar has become the Asian hell. The tide of war appears to be turning against the Myanmar military regime. What began as a comedy film has turned into a bloody war that has devastated the country. A woman calmly goes about her outdoor exercise routine very close to the country’s parliament when suddenly, behind her, you see this entire military convoy appear.
A gendarmerie guerrilla army fighting and dying for democracy, they’re outgunned by Myanmar’s ruthless military dictatorship. However, it barely makes the news… but beneath its surface lies something very valuable: China’s best weapon. In the past, it was largely jade serving as Myanmar’s equivalent to blood diamonds. Today, it’s rare earths.
In 2016, when China cleaned up its heavy rare earth mining industry, there was a rush of Chinese workers into northeastern Myanmar. Beijing is determined to control these minerals, and does not rule out taking over part of the territory. Some of the ethnic Wa live in China, some in Myanmar. In the future, we are going to be united with China.
What is happening in Myanmar? There are dozens of open wars in the world: UKRAINE, IRAN, GAZA, LEBANON, YEMEN, SUDAN, AFGHANISTAN VS PAKISTAN AND… MYANMAR. In this we have talked about all of them, except one. I’m talking about the civil war in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
A country that no one remembers, yet it has everything the world needs to manufacture electric cars, guided missiles, wind turbines, and mobile phones. Rare earth elements. And not a few. Myanmar is the world’s second largest supplier of rare earth elements for magnets, second only to China. Without rare earth elements there is no iPhone, no Tesla, and no F-35.
They are the invisible component of almost all modern technology. And it turns out they are buried under the jungles of one of the most unstable countries on the planet. How unstable? To give you an idea, Myanmar has been in civil war since 2021. More than 18 million people need humanitarian aid. Massacres in Myanmar are an everyday occurrence .
And the rare earth deposits are not controlled by the government. They are controlled by armed ethnic guerrillas. And how many are there? Well, almost the same number as FANS of the ULTRAMARINES. That’s why I say in this video that Myanmar is the richest hell in the world. And now comes the icing on the cake. In Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winners are accused of genocide, men wear skirts, women paint their faces with tree bark, and your name depends on whether you were born on a Wednesday morning or a Wednesday afternoon. Because there the week has 8 days instead of 7. Wednesday is split in two. In addition,
each day has its animal, its planet, and its cardinal position. And your zodiac sign is not based on the month, but on the day of the week you were born. If you were born on a Tuesday you are… Lions, lions on Thursdays, a rat, a rat. Those of Saturday, a snake, On a Saturday you are a snake.
And you will say: Fonseca, what do I care how the horoscope works in MYANMAR? Well, you should care, a lot. While in the rest of the world the most an astrologer can aspire to is to present a television program at 3 a.m., in Myanmar they have controlled the country for decades. And I’m not talking about 500 years ago. No, I’m talking about the period from 1962 to 1988.
During that time, the country’s then-dictator delegated the functions of the state to his trusted astrologers. To give you an idea, from one day to the next the direction of traffic was changed from left to right, because a fortune teller recommended it. But they were also in charge of monetary policy. In 1987 the regime withdrew 25, 35 and 75 kyat banknotes without compensation because they said they brought bad luck.
We’re talking about 80% of the money in circulation. And the new banknotes had to be multiples of 9, which was the lucky number of the dictation. LITERALLY, IN MYANMAR, REALITY SURPASSES FICTION. Rescue, the most prudent step is a rescue. Rescue the insurance company. And if that wasn’t enough: the rebels are led by poets.
Which makes a brutal war seem like the corniest thing in the world, with poets, horoscopes, men in skirts… it seems like a novel written by a teenager who then grew up and decided to turn it into a dark green world with strategic minerals and foreign powers. You could say that MYANMAR is the Asian version of SENLINYU’s ALCHEMISED.
(Wait…how is it possible that my screenwriter went from reading Marca to women’s books?) Anyway, so the questions I’m asking myself today are: How did the country get into such a disastrous situation? Why is Myanmar so important? And who really benefits from rare earth elements while people are dying like flies? Today we’re going to answer these questions, but first… And now, let’s look at a little history. I ‘m Fonseca and welcome to my channel.
The history of Myanmar is basically that of a country that has not been left in peace for 200 years. And when they leave him alone, they themselves make sure there is n’t any. I’ll give you a quick summary of their story. The British conquered ancient Burma in three wars, between 1824 and 1885, and turned it into a colony.
During World War II, it was invaded by the Japanese. However, after the Austrian painter disconnected from the server and Japan learned about Tom Howard’s favorite weapon… My conclusion: Fallout is the best open-world video game series. Well, from all that, an independence hero named AUNG SAN negotiated independence with London, but before seeing the result he was assassinated.
She left behind a 2-year-old daughter, and remember her because she’s going to be important. Burma became independent in January 1948. And here comes the first lesson of this story. It’s something that was repeated so often in the 20th century that you could almost consider it a law.
When a country has just emerged from colonialism, internal fighting is a national sport. Well, in fact, it IS a national sport. What you have seen is LETHWEI and it is, perhaps, the most brutal martial art that exists. It includes elbow strikes and is only won by knockout. And politics in this country is a bit the same.
Burma was born with a British-style parliamentary democracy, with a civilian prime minister named U Nu, and lasted exactly fourteen years. What happened? Well, the same old thing . Ethnic insurrections, communists in the jungle, corruption, weak government. Until in 1962 the commander-in-chief of the army, General Ne Win, decided that enough was enough. Everyone stay put.
On March 2, 1962, Ne Win staged a coup . He arrested the prime minister, suspended the constitution, and dissolved parliament. And here comes the important detail. This was NOT a one-off coup. What Ne Win set up was a military dictatorship that lasted TWENTY-SIX YEARS. And what did Ne Win do during those 26 years? Well, something he called “the Burmese road to socialism,” which was a mixture of Marxism, Buddhism, and superstition.
In other words, the wet dream of an average SUMAR voter. The Burmese version of Pedro Sánchez nationalized the economy, expelled foreign businessmen, banned all political parties except his own, and isolated the country from the world. And, to make important decisions, he used the horoscope. SPOILER: the experiment turned out as you can imagine.
Burma went from being one of the richest countries in Southeast Asia to one of the poorest on the planet. In fact, while the rest of Southeast Asia has grown in recent years, Myanmar has stagnated. The result? Red paint on the pavement in remembrance of the more than 3,000 people who died 27 years ago in the Burmese protests.
A group of people gathered near the Yangon city hall in memory of the thousands of victims repressed by the army in 1988, when they were demanding more democracy. In the summer of 1988 things exploded. Imagine: 26 years of dictatorship, hunger, food rationing, and a dictator who eliminates 80% of the money because his trusted shaman told him to. As expected, people took to the streets.
Students, monks, doctors, civil servants… the only one missing was the dictator himself coming out to protest. And the date it all broke out was August 8, 1988, so the revolt went down in history as 8888. [VIDEO TO INSERT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8mCNNdt1c] 11 8, 88! The repression was brutal.
The military fired on the protesters and there were more than 3,000 deaths in a matter of weeks. And those who weren’t killed suffered something worse. In this country they have a very particular form of torture . The so-called “box cells”. That is, they lock the prisoner in a very small cube where he cannot move or stretch.
Come on, we ‘re talking about a dictatorship that has nothing to envy North Korea. However, NE WIN resigned in July, even before the worst of it arrived. And here many of you would think, “Okay, end of the dictatorship.” MISTAKE. What happened in September 1988 was one of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian handbook. OTHER military officers, led by General SAW MAUNG, staged ANOTHER coup and set up a new military junta with a new name: the SLORC.
Which in Spanish would be something like “State Council for the Restoration of Law and Order”. Come on, it was just a rebranding. The dictatorship continued. And he continued. And he continued. In total, the military ruled Myanmar for another 23 years, until 2011. And in the midst of all this mess, that’s when the name you had to remember appears. Or the surname.
Aung San Suu Kyi: What we want the military to do is to keep out of politics. We don’t want the military to split up. We want the armed forces to keep together, but to keep out of politics. I’m talking about Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of that independence hero who was assassinated when she was 2 years old.
She had spent 28 years away from Myanmar, married to an English academic, raising her children in Oxford. And she returned to the country in 1988, just in time to care for her ailing mother… and to find herself upside down in the middle of 8888. People saw her, asked her to lead, and she accepted. He founded a party, the National League for Democracy, and in 1990 the military committed what they believed to be a clever tactical error: they called elections to legitimize themselves internationally.
PROBLEM: Suu Kyi swept the board. His party won more than 80% of the seats. And what did the military do? What any dictatorship does when it loses an election. With the responsiveness and reaction capacity of the civic-military-police union, we resolved the fascist outbreak peacefully and within the framework of the Constitution .
We have 2,000 captured prisoners and from there they go to Tocorón, to Tocito, the maximum punishment. Not acknowledging the result. Abolish parliament. And put Suu Kyi under house arrest. That’s where it stayed. Locked in her house in Rangoon for the next 15 years. He did not get to see his children grow up.
She was not there when her husband died of cancer in Oxford, because she knew that if she left the country they would not let her return. But it wasn’t all bad news. He achieved one of the things most desired by DONALD TRUMP. And no, I’m not referring to a night with Stormy Daniels.
In 1991 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became a global icon alongside Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel. She was the woman who stood alone against a dictatorship. A story that is very similar to that of MARIA CORINA MACHADO. The difference? Well… She even won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar; now she’s the civilian leader and she’s fighting charges that the country on her watch has committed genocide.
In 2011, the military decided to play the game of “transition” and allowed a limited democracy, in which they legally reserved 25% of Parliament and key ministries for themselves. In 2015, Suu Kyi’s party won the elections by a landslide and she came to power. And it turned out… that he wasn’t exactly a being of light.
Perhaps the Nobel committee should have seen it coming, given their track record of awards . They gave it to Obama as soon as he became president, just because during his campaign he had spoken about peace and a world without nuclear weapons. However, he continued to bomb Iraq as the evil Bush had done. Also to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, just before a civil war began.
Come on, I think TRUMP decided to bomb IRAN to see if they’d give it to him sooner. The point here is that Suu Kyi at the very least looked the other way while her army massacred the Rohingya. And who are the Rohingya? Well, a Muslim minority of almost a million people in a Buddhist country that doesn’t even recognize them as citizens.
The army has killed thousands of Muslims, we don’t even know how many. He has systematically raped women. It has burned down entire villages. And at least 700,000 Muslims fled the country to avoid being killed. They had to flee with only the clothes on their backs from extreme violence. The Burmese army killed thousands of them.
“We escaped while the military brutally murdered Rohingya and burned our houses,” says Tajiba. The testimonies send chills down your spine. There are witnesses who have recounted how soldiers threw babies into the river. How grandmothers were beheaded. How they shot at people as they crossed the border. A Yale study suggested that what was happening could be classified as GENOCIDE.
Well, in this case the Holocaust Museum in Washington issued an alert. And the Nobel Peace Prize laureate went to The Hague to DEFEND the military before the International Court of Justice. He said that ” disproportionate force cannot be ruled out” but that the idea of genocide was “an incomplete and misleading picture.” Wow, the Nobel Peace Prize winner wasn’t much of a pacifist.
In fact, Bill Richardson, who was the United States ambassador to the UN and an ally of this woman for years, said that when he asked her to release two Reuters journalists who were investigating the massacres, Suu Kyi became so furious that he thought she was going to slap him. Richardson broke with her two years ago, when Suu Kyi became so enraged that she thought she was going to slap him after he asked her to release two Reuters journalists imprisoned for investigating a Rohingya massacre. And what happened next? Well, something like
poetic justice. And that’s no exaggeration. The same military officers she protected staged a coup against her in 2021. She was arrested. The elections were cancelled. But the best part was how the world found out about this coup. A woman was calmly carrying out her outdoor exercise routine very close to the country’s parliament when suddenly behind her you see this entire military convoy appear, the same one that arrested various political and civilian leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
After the coup, Myanmar entered the bloodiest civil war in Southeast Asia in decades. A war involving major powers … without too many people knowing it, over minerals that everyone is talking about. What do I mean? We’ll see it right now. WAR NEVER CHANGES Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar is in chaos.
It’s not that it was exactly Finland before, but it’s going from bad to worse. To give you an idea: the military junta controls the main cities, but has lost almost 40% of the territory. The rest is controlled by ethnic guerrillas who have been fighting for their autonomy for decades. [MAP: https://ispmyanmar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SOM01_English_21-1075×1536.
jpg] Groups in the country are divided into eight main ones, each concentrated in different areas. The majority are the Bamar, or Burmese, who live mostly in the Irrawaddy Basin. Then there are the Chin, the Kachin, the Shan, the Rakhine, the Kayah, the Karen and the Mon. In short, there are more guerrilla groups than corruption cases in the PSOE.
To that must be added the citizen militias that were formed after the coup, the People’s Defense Forces, directed by a government in exile that operates from the jungle. YES, FROM THE JUNGLE. This is enough to make a movie. Especially because of one of its protagonists. MAUNG SAUNGKHA seemed like an unlikely face for the war for democracy in Myanmar in his past life he was a peaceful anti-government poet now he’s leading an armed militia against the state It turns out that the Burmese resistance is led by a poet. Ko Maung Saungkha is 31 years old,
studied chemical engineering, worked briefly in a sunscreen factory, and like many of you, also plays MOUNT AND BLADE. The difference? He does it in real life, and mind you, he has managed to raise an army of 1,000 soldiers. Before the coup, he was famous for reciting anti-war poems in front of Rangoon’s town hall .
His chief of instruction, Ko Rakkha, is also a poet. His favorite phrase for recruits is, listen up, “The goal of training is to learn not to die.” The truth is, it doesn’t sound like Lorca. But it doesn’t end there. The Minister of Defense of the government in exile is another poet who in 2015 won his parliamentary seat by defeating the former Minister of Defense of the military.
The best part? He did it from jail while carving his poems on pieces of plastic because they wouldn’t let him have pens (I guess they thought that was the most effective way to torture him). One of his most famous quotes is, “Words are powerful weapons. But against the military, we need real weapons, because they do n’t play fair.
” I suppose it will rhyme in Burmese. But let’s get to the important stuff. As Napoleon said…or any average rapper: “To wage war you need three things: money, money, and money.” Because behind all this carnage there is something that explains why it doesn’t look like the war will end anytime soon. Rare earth elements.
Myanmar’s rare earth potential is significant. According to a recent count , it ranks second only to China in terms of rare earths used in magnets, which are employed in a wide range of industries, including electric vehicles and precision guidance systems. We ‘ve already talked about them in a few videos.
Rare earth elements are a group of 17 chemical elements with names that sound like a Harry Potter spell: dysprosium, terbium, neodymium, lanthanum. The thing is, they are essential for manufacturing permanent magnets that go inside electric motors, wind turbines, missile guidance systems, and practically all the electronics you use daily.
China controls 60% of global extraction and more than 90% of processing. And here comes Myanmar. Because in 2023 Myanmar became the largest external supplier of heavy rare earth elements to China. More than 41,700 metric tons, about two-thirds of what China imports of these minerals. To give you an idea of the fortune we’re talking about: in 2023 alone, Myanmar’s exports of rare earth elements to China exceeded $1.4 billion.
To give you an idea, SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, estimated that the military junta spent about $2.4 billion that same year. In other words, rare earth exports account for more than half of the government’s military spending. And why is this important? Because the deposits are in Kachin State and Shan State, in the north.
[MAP https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dtCxCsDVt2EHKO1ruxeMuzIEAgYMcGCq/view?usp=drive_link] These territories are controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization, also known as KIA, and the Wa United State Army, probably the most powerful armed group of all. This was created in 1989 and has its own narco state where they are dedicated to producing heroin.
In summary, the board does not control the deposits. Conclusion? The richest deposits are found almost exclusively in the states of Kachin and Shan, under the de facto jurisdiction of various ethnic armed organizations. Only by working with these groups can China secure its supply chain. That’s right, XI JINPING applied the “neither machismo nor feminism, equality” of foreign intervention.
He doesn’t care about the ideology, religion, ethnicity, or war crimes that each group has committed. If they have something to offer Beijing, they will receive support. And we consider that looting? No, that’s the friendly market. The junta is given diplomatic recognition and financial aid. It buys rare earth elements from armed ethnic groups , and in return provides them with logistics, yuan, and access to the Chinese banking system.
And when it is necessary for two enemy groups to stop killing each other, it opens or closes the border as needed. Basically, China is the referee in Myanmar. Do you want an example? In October 2024, the Kachin rebels had enough and seized Chipwi and Pang War, the two key mining towns. [GOOGLE EARTH MAP: https://earth.google.
com/earth/d/1wepnSpGWjAHTffZqYOILsQthnod3JOLi?usp=sharing] China abruptly closed the border. However, they didn’t do it to help the Board, that’s for sure. Shortly afterwards, representatives of the rebels arrived in China to negotiate in secret. And where did they meet? In the city of KUNMING [GOOGLE EARTH MAP: https://earth.google.
com/earth/d/1wepnSpGWjAHTffZqYOILsQthnod3JOLi?usp=sharing], or as we would say in Spain. Oh! I’m coming! Oh! I’m coming! Oh! I’m coming. But you know what the best part is? The guerrillas ended up imposing a 20% tax on exports on Beijing, with a fixed price of 35,000 yuan per ton, about $4,800 per ton. Yes.
A guerrilla group setting conditions for the all-powerful China, governed by Xi Jinping. And you’ll say: “Wow, Fonseca, I’m getting confused with so many names, guerrillas, and minerals.” Don’t worry, things are about to get even more complicated. Besides rare earth elements, or Harry Potter spells, as my researcher likes to call them, KIA has something else to offer XI JINPING. A Givi runner? But which runner are we talking about? One that is very strategic for the Chinese.
This route runs from Yunnan province to the port of Kyaukyu, on the west coast of Myanmar, which would give direct access to the Indian Ocean without having to go through the Strait of Malacca. [MAP: https://thailand-construction.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/China-Begins-Surveys-for-Railway-to-Myanmars-Indian-Ocean-2.
jpeg]Why is this important? Because that strip of water could be blocked in case of conflict with the U.S. And Beijing has already invested a lot of money in the project. Chinese state-owned enterprises have reached agreements with Myanmar to build a $ 7.3 billion deep-water port and a $2.
7 billion industrial zone . This strategic city is the endpoint of a $1.5 billion oil pipeline and a parallel gas pipeline. So Myanmar is not just a supplier of minerals. We are talking about a key piece to reduce one of CHINA’s biggest weaknesses in case of conflict with UNCLE SAM.
The problem? Along the way there are many more factions that have been fighting each other for decades. Conclusion? Beijing has learned that transactional dealings with rival local authorities are inevitable in a fragmented political environment. China is playing both sides with all the different actors to control rare earths.
But what about the United States? Given all the fuss the orange man made about Ukraine’s scarce rare earth deposits, how come he hasn’t gotten fully involved in Myanmar? Well, the truth is that he’s thinking about it. In July 2025, proposals began circulating within the Trump administration to access Myanmar’s rare earth resources, either by negotiating with the junta or directly with the rebels.
The idea is to break the Chinese monopoly. But analysts see it as more difficult than beating DARK SOULS with a keyboard and mouse. The reason? Look at the map: you have to cross mountains, rainforests, plus there are no roads and the territory is divided among dozens of armed groups. Come on, compared to that, Ulysses’ odyssey would simply be called RYANAIR.
However, China has the deposits right next door. They have them so close that they are the ones who exploit them. Literally. In 2016, when China cleaned up its heavy rare earth mining industry, there was a rush of Chinese workers into northeastern Myanmar.
Some say thousands, some say tens of thousands of people came over and started setting up rare earth mines in Myanmar. But then there’s another problem. Even if you manage to import rare earth elements from Myanmar, they still need to be processed. And which country processes exactly 90% of mining operations? Exactly, China.
Come on, if UNCLE SAM doesn’t start investing in his refining capabilities, TRUMP can forget about the oil fields in MYANMAR, UKRAINE or GREENLAND… But of course, that doesn’t get any likes on Twitter. And then there’s another problem. Yes, a guerrilla group has managed to impose a 20% tariff on China. However, we still need to see the fine print. Which? It is true that CHINA has modernized very quickly… but its environmental policies in MYANMAR make those of 19th-century England seem like they were written by GRETA THUNBERG. And the fact is that
extracting these minerals requires chemicals more toxic than Johnny Depp’s ex. That’s why China drastically reduced extraction in its own country… but moved it to its neighboring country. The profits from extraction, in terms of economic benefit and combating climate change, are privatized and exported.
The costs are socialized and abandoned in already impoverished mining regions. And of course, guerrilla groups are not exactly known for their environmental regulations. The result? Massive deforestation, water with more chemicals than a rave, sterile soils. To give you an idea, the pollution is reaching as far as Thailand and Laos. The Mekong River, which flows through six countries is the lifeblood for nearly 70 million people here in mainland Southeast Asia.
I’m reposting from northern Thailand at the confluence of one of the Makong River’s tributaries, which has been exposed to heavy metal pollutants from upstream mining operations. And how is the population coping with this? Obviously bad. BUT in 2023 a Kachin community managed to get the KIA guerrilla to halt the opening of new mines.
Local religious leaders mobilized protest networks that spread throughout the state. Rank-and-file soldiers from the KIA itself supported the demands of the population because many of them had been recruited in those same villages. It’s a small example, but it says something important. Wow, even in the midst of a war, there are people who organize themselves to defend their water and their land.
The problem? These mines are vital for the guerrillas to obtain money. Furthermore, some of the mines are controlled by the Wa group, the one from the communist narco-state. And what about him? Their main ally is Beijing, which has supported the group since its creation in 1989. Moreover, if you look closely, their armed forces are practically a copy of those of the Asian giant.
[Min: 0:00 UWSA parade for the reason they resemble the Chinese army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jRQY125cI] And their leader has stated that they want to unite with China: ” We have a long-standing relationship with China because we are the ethnic group along the China border and the Chinese are our brothers.” Some of the ethnic Wa live in China, some in Myanmar.
In the future, we are going to be united with China. In other words, I highly doubt they would want to anger their main ally in order to make Greta Thunberg happy. And yes, we ‘ve been talking about rare earth elements the whole time , because they’re the most important, but Myanmar is the Asian version of Venezuela: they also have gold, gems, marble, and many other minerals. [MAP: https://ispmyanmar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SCI_M2026_009E-1024×1024.
jpg] And if you think this is already very complicated, remember that we’ve only focused on one very specific region of the country. And the war? Well, go on. The rebels control more than half of the territory but cannot take the capital. The junta is bombing villages with airplanes.
There are more than 6,500 confirmed civilian deaths according to the main NGO that keeps count, although the UN puts the total death toll of the conflict at over 75,000 when including combatants. [MAP OF ATTACKS: https://myanmar.iiss.org/dashboard ACCOMPANY WITH IMAGES OF THE CONFLICT, THIS ONE MAY BE USEFUL: https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=rfo_5Cnf4A0&t=351s] 18 million people need humanitarian aid. And General Min Aung Hlaing, who is the leader of the junta, calls elections that no one recognizes as free. Of course, while all this is happening, China is negotiating with its enemies while continuing to support them. And when the situation seemed like it couldn’t get any worse, TRUMP said: hold my beer, and bombed IRAN. The result? It’s not just a waiting game for some.
It’s a matter of luck. In cities like Dangal, motorists can queue up for six hours just to get fuel. Elsewhere, outside of Yangon, some petrol stations are often empty. Do you remember when I told you that Asia is the most affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? Well, Myanmar is in Asia.
So yes, this country fulfills all the conditions to be considered a Grimdark fantasy country: wizards, fortune tellers, daily massacres, sectarian wars, NACHOVIDALIAN pollution, warrior poets, hidden riches and a bleak future. And without further ado, now it’s your turn. Do you think the civil war in Myanmar will ever end? Will Trump end up getting involved in the conflict over mineral resources? Did you know about Myanmar before this video? Where did you hear about him? You can leave your answers in the comments.
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