Liberty, Virtue, and Progress of the Nation

World Maps for thought

Fragile States Index

​လၢ​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ချၢ​ထံ​ကီၢ်​လၢ ​တ​ဂၢၢ်​တ​ကျၢၤ​သ့ၣ်​ဖး​ဟး​ဂီၤ​ညီ​အ​ကျါ, ​ထံ​ကီၢ်​လၢ ​အ​နး​န့ၣ် ​ကီၤ​ပံၤ​ယီၤ​အိၣ်​တ​ဘ့ၣ်. ​အ​မံၤ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​ ဆိၣ်​မၤ​လံ​ယါ.

There is one country on earth that has a higher fragility index than that of Burma/Myanmar. The Somalia. 

Corruption Perceptions Index, 2010

​ထံ​ကီၢ်​လၢ ​အီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ဖး​လၢ်​ဆှိၣ်, ​အီၣ်​တုာ်​အီၣ်​က​လီၤ​တၢ်​အ​ကျါ​န့ၣ် ​ကီၢ်​ပံၤ​ယီၤ​န့ၣ်​လဲၤ​လၢ​ညါ ​ဒီး​တၢ်​ဂံၢ်​အီၤ​ဒွး​အီၤ​လၢ ​တၢ်​လီၤ​တ​သြူး​လီၢ်​ပှီၢ်​လၢ ​အ​က​အိ​ပူၤ​လံ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ.

• The thought traditions promotes a certain political culture, from which institutions are created to deter corruption. 

• The green maps indicate a certain shared intellectual tradition, the Greco-Roman influence.  Institution alone cannot create a high deterrence against corruption. 

World Military Bases Head Maps

​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ဂီၤ​တ​ဘ့ၣ်​အံၤ ​ပာ်​ဖျါ​ထီၣ်​ဝဲ​ဒၣ် ​သုး​က​လၢၤ​အိၣ်​အါ​အ​လီၢ်​သုး​ဖိ​တ​ဖၣ်​ဂဲၤ​လိ​အ​သး​အါ​အ​လီၢ်​ဒီး​တၢ်​လီၢ်​တ​ဖၣ်​အံၤ ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​တၢ်​လီၢ်​လၢ ​တၢ်​ဒုး​တၢ်​ယၤ​တ​အိၣ်​ဘၣ်​ဒီး ​တၢ်​မုာ်​တၢ်​ခုၣ်​တၢ်​လဲၤ​ထီၣ်​လဲၤ​ထီ​အိၣ်​ဝဲ​အ​လီၢ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ.

The Peace Paradox - The more peaceful regions of the world, the more military bases, vice versa

 There are smaller states linger over the Global South but are counted as "Global North": 

Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan. 

​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​က​လံၤ​ထံး​န့ၣ် ​တၢ်​ကိး​အီၤ​လၢ ​တၢ်​လဲၤ​ထီၣ်​လဲၤ​ထီ​တ​ပှဲၤ​တုာ်​ဒံး​ဘ. ​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​က​လံၤ​စိး​တ​ခီ ​တၢ်​ပာ်​ပ​နီၣ်​အီၤ​လၢ ​တၢ်​လဲၤ​ထီၣ်​လဲၤ​ထီ​လၢ ​တၢ်​ပာ်​သူၣ်​ပာ်​သး, ​တၢ်​အီၣ်​ကုာ်​အီ​ပှဲၤ, ​တၢ်​ဆဲး​တၢ်​လၤ, ​စဲး​ဖီ​က​ဟၣ်​စဲ​အ့ၣ်​ပီ​ညါ​တ​ဖၣ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ. 

US Military Presence Around the World, 2020

• There is no other country on earth like the United States that projects its military power over the world by having military bases all over the world. 

• China, the world second largest economy, has commercial sea ports all over the world but only one military base in Djibouti.

• Defense spending by the United States accounted for nearly 40 percent of military expenditures by countries around the world in 2022  [SIPRI].

​ယူၣ်​အဲး​စ်​အ​သုး​တ​ဖၣ် ​ရၤ​လီၤ​အ​သး ​လၢ​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ဒီ​တ​ဘ့ၣ် ​လၢ ​အ​က​စၢ်​ဒၣ်​ဝဲ​တၢ်​ဘံၣ်​တၢ်​ဘၢ​အ​ဂီၢ်, ​တၢ်​ဒိၣ်​စိ​လၢ ​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ချၢ​အ​ဂီၢ် ​ဃုာ်​ဒီး ​မုၢ်​ကျိၤ​ဝဲၤ​ကွၢ်​တၢ်​ဒိၣ်​စိ​ဒီး ​တၢ်​ဒီ​တ​ဒၢ​ပီၣ်​လဲၣ်​ပူၤ​အ​ဂီၢ်.

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

​အဲး​တ​လဲ​တ့း ​က​လံၤ​စိး ​သိၣ်​မှံၤ​လံာ်​ဃံး​ဃာ်​က​ရၢ ​န့ၣ် ​မ့ၢ်​သုး​သိၣ်​မှံၤ​လၢ ​အ​စိ​က​မီၤ​ဒိၣ်​က​တၢၢ်​လၢ​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ချၢ.

NATO is the world largest active military alliance that had major military engagements in  the following countries: 

• Kuwait-Iraq (1991)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina(1995)

• Afghanistan (2003)

• Iraq (2004)

• Somalia (2009)

• Libya (2011)

World Time Zones

Kawthoolei Time Zone lies not in the +6 1/2  UTC (as currently practicing) but 7+ UTC, which is the same time zone that Thai, Cambodia, and Vietnam time zone. Easter 

Kawthoolei territories as current KNU Administrative Control areas which means people of Kawthoolei are now waking up half hour later than the sun and the nature.