When protesters in the streets of Myanmar began waving signs around in English demanding “R2P” or the “responsibility to protect,” the initial reaction should have been for many – a flashback to the last time R2P was invoked – in 2011 by the West regarding Libya.
The violence in Libya in 2011 was part
of the wider US-engineered “Arab Spring” with opposition groups, fronts
posing as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and even armed factions
all backed by the US and prepared years in advance to carry out a
region-wide campaign of destabilization, regime change, military
intervention, and occupation.
At the time, many – including US Senator John McCain – promised the “Arab Spring” would spread – deliberately and as part of Washington’s desire to encircle, contain, and eventually overthrow the political and economic orders of Iran, Russia, and China.
The Atlantic in a 2011 article titled, “The Arab Spring: ‘A Virus That Will Attack Moscow and Beijing’,” would even note:
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It's not the US's responsibility to address. Burma has been the least developed of the nations except maybe Laos for decades. India is right next door. If it's so critical for "democracy" and regional stability maybr they should handle it. But they won't because they don't give a rip about them either. If there was anything there of real value China and India both would beoving in. But there's not and neither one wants their own Vietnam conflict.
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