As the US, European Union and others hit Russia with crippling economic sanctions in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports that they are facing demands to go hard against another regime: Myanmar’s military junta.
In the past year, Washington and Brussels have taken steps to cut off army leaders and their businesses from the global financial system. But the junta has continued its campaign of airstrikes, arrests and custodial torture to counter armed resistance. Now, the coup’s opponents are pushing for a ban on the sale of jet fuel to Myanmar: ‘If the jets can’t fly, they can’t bomb’.