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Coup in Myanmar

TragicMonkey said:
Anyone seen the video of the lady filming her aerobic workout and accidentally capturing part of the coup starting in the background? I saw it on Reddit and assumed it wasn't genuine (or was footage of something else) but now it's on BBC News.
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It was cute. She didn't notice what was going on behind her.
 
Well well, it turns out there was a reason for 'why now'. The military already had plenty of power so why did they need more?

Because the top general was facing mandatory retirement at age 65. He is 64 and currently approaching that mandatory retirement.

CSIS: Myanmar’s Military Seizes Power
Ultimately the decision to go ahead with the coup was Min Aung Hlaing’s, and his motivations are murky. Clearly this was not about election integrity. More plausibly, the coup seems a result of the general’s personal ambitions. He was slated for mandatory retirement in July 2021 and was widely assumed to be eyeing a transition to politics. But the NLD’s performance in the November elections dashed any hopes that he or other generals could secure election to top office under the current constitution. That realization may have been particularly jarring if, as has been alleged, the military brass fell victim to their own propaganda and believed Suu Kyi’s popularity was waning.
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Sucks to be in a place like that. Rock and hard place. You protest against the one, and just in case after lots of struggle you do "win", it is only to hand power over to another hole. Grim not to even have options at all, no matter how much of a long shot.

(Although of course I don't know if the Myanmarese view Aung Suu same as most of us do. It could be the Rohingya thing is actually a plus for many of them, or at least it might not be that much of an issue for many them. In which case they would protest, as they are doing now. Whether that protest will matter at all is another matter of course.)
 
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