It will be the first natural disaster that took place after President Donald Trump closed America’s international aid agency with potentially devastating consequences.
The impact in the wake of this earthquake is likely to be serious. Trump’s Decide to Concludes the US Agency for International Development It has already been reported that he has dampened US auxiliary activities in Myanmar. Its global impact is difficult to exceed. US assistance has provided 40% of the development aid worldwide.
Yesterday Trump promised Myanmar Help for the earthquake. In fact, his administration has fired most people who have experienced, fired, and fired the means to provide it.
Rescuers work on the construction site where a high collapse collapsed in Bangkok. Pic: ap
Ironically, the last of his staff was just abandoned yesterday, even if the president made high promises to help.
Last updates on earthquake
The US State Department says it has maintained a team of experts in the country. But former USAID officials say the system is now ‘in oblique’ without being able to do search and rescue or transfer aid.
While counting the cost of this massive earthquake, the people of Myanmar will hope, but for a silver lining, that the disaster can speed up the fall of their despised dictator.
The catastrophe comes at a very bad time for General Min Aung Hlaing, who seized a coup four years ago.
Mimar’s General Min Ang Halaing. Photo: Reuters
The Myanmar -Junta loses a civil war against a variety of opposition forces, and has now largely ceded in the country’s major cities. And some of his worst damage has been done to his urban strongholds.
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The disaster is so bad that Hlaing has broken his government’s self -imposed isolation to appeal from the outside world. But the country’s inaccessibility will remain a major obstacle to helping efforts.
Myanmar is a deep superstitious country. The generals who have ruled it since the end of colonial rule have consulted astrologers and used talismanic objects and animals, including white elephants, to protect their grip on power.
But earthquakes are thought to make great change in Myanmar and sometimes the fall of leaders. This in itself can accelerate the fall of his hated junta.
It remains powerful, provided by advanced weapons by Ally China. It used fighter jets to destroy opponents and civilians and massacre as the civil war intensified.
But his enemies also gain power, improvise with drones and other tactics to maintain momentum against a regime that has lost all legitimacy. They will be encouraged in the belief that this disaster will bring their day of victory.
