[Myanmar] - The Military Self Conscripts Its Own Young to Crush the Rebel Other, Proving the Illusion of a Unified State

Event Baseline: Myanmar's military is regaining control of key towns using conscription, relentless air raids, and Chinese support. Rebel fighters have lost ground as the junta expands forced recruitment and aerial bombardment.

The state self believes it can buy coherence by forcing the young body into the uniform. Conscription is thought trying to solve the problem of division by making more division. The soldier and the rebel are the same flesh, but the flag creates an artificial line. The air raids are the mechanical response of a frightened organism. The military self cannot see that bombing its own territory is self-mutilation. It calls it 'control' but it is only the vibration of a dying phantom. China's support is another self injecting its own agenda into a burning body. All sides are trapped in the same delusion: that there is a separate nation to defend. There is only earth and blood. Until the last uniform is burned, the war will continue.