When President Donald Trump’s administration announced the termination of TPS for Myanmar nationals, many observers were disappointed — but not surprised. Ending TPS is the prerogative of any US government. They may tighten or loosen their borders as they wish.
But what is shocking — and frankly embarrassing — is the level of ignorance, irresponsibility, and detachment from reality displayed in Washington’s accompanying political statements about Myanmar.
1. Calling Myanmar’s Military-Controlled Election “Free and Fair”
To describe the manipulated, military-designed electoral process as free and fair is nothing short of infantile intelligence. It exposes a US government that either does not understand Myanmar’s political structure or deliberately chooses to whitewash authoritarianism when convenient.
2. Praising a “Successful Ceasefire” That Never Existed
Any suggestion that the ceasefire was “successful” demonstrates delusion and insanity. Ceasefire agreements in Myanmar exist on paper only, regularly violated by the military and opportunistically abused by armed groups.
For the US to declare success in such chaos is a testament to how far removed Washington is from the lived realities of Myanmar’s people.
3. Claiming Local Governance Has “Improved”
This is perhaps the most out-of-touch statement of all. Local governance in Myanmar has collapsed — replaced by lawlessness, militarisation, arbitrary taxation, extortion, and humanitarian blockades.
If this is what the US considers “improvement”, then American intelligence assessments are in a state of freefall.
THE SYMBOLISM OF AN UNINFORMED ADMINISTRATION
No wonder the incompetence trickles down.
In August 2024, Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was unable to name a single ASEAN country during his confirmation hearing.
This is not merely embarrassing — it is dangerous. It shows that Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, does not even register on the strategic radar of decision-makers responsible for global security
A TRACK RECORD OF US BLUNDERS ON MYANMAR
The US frequently lectures the world on democracy and human rights.
But on Myanmar, its actions reveal hypocrisy, selective morality, and geopolitical cowardice.
1. Failure to Support Myanmar’s Opposition
Unlike Israel or Ukraine, where US support is strong and immediate, Myanmar’s democratic forces receive little more than speeches and symbolic condemnations.
No real pressure, no effective assistance, and no meaningful strategy.
2. Discriminatory Refugee Policies
The contrast in treatment between:
- White, Christian European Ukrainian refugees, and
- Asian refugees from Myanmar
is glaring.
Even Myanmar’s Christian and ethnic minority refugees find the doors shut — proving that Western humanitarianism is often shaped by racial and religious bias, both in the US and the EU.
3. Cutting Humanitarian Funds at Thai and Bangladesh Borders
The suspension of cross-border humanitarian funding has directly harmed:
- displaced Rohingya,
- civilians fleeing the war,
- and ethnic populations trapped without food or medical aid.
This is not strategic policy.
It is abandonment.
4. The Blanket Ban on Americans Supporting ICC Investigations
To protect:
- US politicians,
- US soldiers, and
- Israel
from potential scrutiny over international crimes, Washington imposed a sweeping ban on Americans assisting the ICC.
As a result:
- NGOs,
- activists, and
- organisations like Fortify Rights
were intimidated, discouraged, or obstructed from submitting evidence on: - the Rohingya Genocide,
- atrocities by the Myanmar military,
- and recent mass abuses by AA.
The message is clear:
American self-preservation overrides justice for Myanmar’s victims.
CONCLUSION
The US claims to champion democracy and human rights.
But its policies on Myanmar reveal a government blinded by racial bias, geopolitical self-interest, and a shocking lack of intelligence about the region.
Trump’s Myanmar policy is not just incompetent —
it is a betrayal of the oppressed, a gift to dictators, and a stain on America’s global credibility.
If Washington wishes to lead, it must first learn to understand.
If it wishes to defend justice, it must practice it — not only when the victims are white, Christian, or politically convenient.
The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee does not agree with the termination of the TPS for Myanmar Nationals in the US.
ဒုက္ခသည် အနေနဲ့ အမေရိကန်ရောက်နေသူတွေကိုပြန်စီစစ်မယ် 
TPS သတင်း မဆုံးသေးခင် နောက်ထပ် ဂရုပြုစရာ သတင်းတစ်ခု CNN မှာ တက်လာပါတယ်။ သမ္မတ Trump အစိုးရဟာ သမ္မတ Biden လက်ထက်တုန်းက အမေရိကန်ကို ဝင်ရောက်ခွင့်ရခဲ့တဲ့ ဒုက္ခသည် (Refugees) တွေကို ပြန်လည်စစ်ဆေးမေးမြန်းမှုတွေ (Re-interviews) လုပ်ဆောင်ဖို့ ပြင်ဆင်နေတယ်လို့ သိရပါတယ်။
အဓိက အချက်များ:
ဘယ်သူတွေပါမလဲ: လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ (၄) နှစ်၊ Biden အစိုးရလက်ထက်မှာ Refugee status နဲ့ ဝင်ရောက်လာသူတွေကို အဓိက ပစ်မှတ်ထား စစ်ဆေးမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
ဘာကြောင့်လဲ: အရင်အစိုးရလက်ထက်တုန်းက စိစစ်မှု (Vetting Process) အားနည်းခဲ့တယ်လို့ Trump အစိုးရက ယူဆတဲ့အတွက်၊ လုံခြုံရေးအရ စိုးရိမ်ရသူတွေနဲ့ လိမ်လည်လျှောက်ထားသူတွေ ပါ/မပါ ပြန်စစ်ချင်တဲ့ သဘောပါ။
အကျိုးဆက်: တကယ်လို့ စစ်ဆေးတွေ့ရှိချက်အရ မသင်္ကာစရာ (သို့) လိမ်လည်ထားတာတွေ ပေါ်ပေါက်လာရင် လက်ရှိ ရရှိထားတဲ့ နေထိုင်ခွင့် အဆင့်အတန်း (Status) ကို ပြန်လည်ရုပ်သိမ်းတာမျိုးတွေ ဖြစ်လာနိုင်ပါတယ်။
ကျွန်တော့်ရဲ့ အကြံပြုချက်:
Refugee နဲ့ ရောက်လာတဲ့ ကျွန်တော်တို့ မြန်မာမိတ်ဆွေတွေအနေနဲ့ –
၁။ ကိုယ်လျှောက်ထားတုန်းက တင်ပြခဲ့တဲ့ အချက်အလက်တွေကို ပြန်မှတ်မိအောင် လုပ်ထားပါ။
၂။ စာရွက်စာတမ်း အထောက်အထား (Documents) တွေကို စနစ်တကျ ပြန်စုစည်းထားပါ။
၃။ ကိုယ်က အမှန်အတိုင်း လျှောက်ထားခဲ့သူဆိုရင်တော့ သိပ်ပြီး စိုးရိမ်စရာ မရှိပါဘူး။ ဒါပေမယ့် လိုရမယ်ရ Immigration ရှေ့နေတွေနဲ့ အဆက်အသွယ် ရှိထားတာ အကောင်းဆုံးပါပဲ။
အခြေအနေတွေက တော်တော်လေး ကျပ်တည်းလာတဲ့ သဘောပါပဲ။ နောက်ထပ် Update တွေ ထပ်တက်လာရင် ဆက်လက် မျှဝေပေးပါမယ်။
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