The United States plans to regain influence in Myanmar 3 years after the overthrow of the government of Aung San Suu Kyi

On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw), widely supported by the PRC and Russia, carried out another military coup in the country, ending the five-year democratic rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint.

The coup was triggered by the results of the November 8, 2020, parliamentary elections, which resulted in the NLD winning 396 seats and pro-militarist political parties winning 33 seats (out of 476).

Eventually, Tatmadaw’s armed uprising led to the outbreak of a new civil war in Myanmar and the actual division of the state into numerous ethnic state entities, which at the same time became part of a long-lasting military conflict that began in 1948.