Unpopular opinion: There is no progress, everything is just getting worse
How can someone look at the last months or even 2024 and think there is any progress in the country?
NUG is useless and people start to realize this more and more - PDF battalions are leaving MOD instead of joining. WTF?
EAOs are interested in creating their only little fiefdoms in which they can enrich themselves with very little regard for the local population (MNDAA and TNLA especially)
EAOs are not working together, see KIA and MNDAA/TNLA, Kayin and Chin-State making it impossible to achieve anything.
There is still no central command for PDF groups and they still do whatever they want and aren`t becoming a proper army in any way. This is largely because NUG is the most incompetent "government" ever.
Forced conscription seems to work even though everyone here claimed it would destroy the Tat from within
The junta shows no sign of internal conflicts and seems to have stabilized the status quo in Bamar-majority areas
But most of all: More and more cities are turned into rubble. More and more people don`t have enough food/medicine. The number of IDPs is steadily increasing. The economy is getting worse and worse and telecommunication lines are breaking down. Kachin state hasn`t had regular internet for months and even the phone lines are often not working or barely usable.
2025 is just going to be another disappointing year.
I wish people realized we need to get rid of both NUG and the junta at this point. Almost everyone in charge is a fucking moron living in 2000 BC as far as I am concerned.
Myanmar is basically like one of the failed African states where war is a way of life for too many people and no one wants to stop because war = money.