Myanmar Junta Blames Flights for Worsening Dollar Shortage

[geovalin]

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Myanmar’s military ruler, Min Aung Hlaing, has found a new scapegoat for the country’s deepening dollar crisis: air travel.

 

Speaking at a post-earthquake economic forum on 30 May, the junta chief claimed that flight ticket purchases are draining the country’s already scarce supply of US dollars. “You don’t walk to foreign countries,” he remarked dryly, pointing to April’s international departures as evidence that outbound travel is a major culprit.

 

His comments come amid growing desperation within the regime to preserve foreign currency. Officials have been increasingly urging trade in rupees, yuan, baht, and ringgit—essentially anything but the greenback—as Myanmar’s economy reels from sanctions, capital flight, and collapsing investment.

 

The junta’s policies have become ever more eccentric in recent years, with the leader previously suggesting citizens bike to work and cut back on imported cooking oil. The latest directive, though unofficial, appears to urge the public to stay grounded—literally—to help conserve foreign exchange.

 

But the dollar drought is not just about plane tickets. On 6 June, the International Labour Organization invoked Article 33, urging its members to suspend cooperation with the regime over its human rights violations. The move could choke off further access to external revenue streams.

“If Myanmar can’t secure revenue soon, the country itself will slowly disintegrate,” Min Aung Hlaing warned.

 

Analysts say the junta’s fixation on peripheral causes betrays a refusal to confront the structural damage inflicted by its own policies since the 2021 coup. For ordinary citizens, the dollar scarcity translates into rising prices, import shortages, and deepening economic hardship.

 

With the regime tightening control and the economy unravelling, even basic travel is now being framed as a threat to national survival.

 

-2025-06-09

[Burma Bill]

6 hours ago, geovalin said:

If Myanmar can’t secure revenue soon, the country itself will slowly disintegrate,” Min Aung Hlaing warned.

 

 

Great news - the best I have read today. Anything that brings down this genocidal military maniac is beneficial for Democracy in Burma! 

[Card]

The dollar shortage is because the regime is buying too many imported arms and luxuries for the army's top brass to keep them on side.

[Srikcir]

23 hours ago, geovalin said:

“If Myanmar can’t secure revenue soon, the country itself will slowly disintegrate,”

And open the door to a outing an authoritarian regime and replaced with a democratic government?

[Watawattana]

39 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

And open the door to a outing an authoritarian regime and replaced with a democratic government?

Yes.  Until the country recovers enough for yet another Junta to come in and rape Myanmar.

[spidermike007]

This guy is absolute scum of the earth, he is gutter vermin, he's a thieving, serial killing dictator thug, who is ruining the hopes and dreams of a nation.

 

A horrific pox on his entire family. 

[impulse]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This guy is absolute scum of the earth, he is gutter vermin, he's a thieving, serial killing dictator thug, who is ruining the hopes and dreams of a nation.

 

A horrific pox on his entire family. 

 

Don't you lose a little credibility when you say that about every world leader you disagree with?

 

You may be right here.  I don't claim to know.  But how can anyone take your comments seriously when you throw them around so casually?

 

 

[spidermike007]

32 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Don't you lose a little credibility when you say that about every world leader you disagree with?

 

You may be right here.  I don't claim to know.  But how can anyone take your comments seriously when you throw them around so casually?

 

 

Look at the history of my posts, it is very rare that I have wished a pox on the family of any leader. Having said that, if you can establish some reasons why I should have more regard for this guy who's leading the military Junta in Burma, by all means go for it. 

[impulse]

46 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Look at the history of my posts, it is very rare that I have wished a pox on the family of any leader. Having said that, if you can establish some reasons why I should have more regard for this guy who's leading the military Junta in Burma, by all means go for it. 

I'm just saying...  You've gone on worse tirades against the legally elected leader of the USA. 

 

That's the problem with calling everyone you disagree with a tyrant.  After you've called Trump "Hitlerian", what can you possibly say about this guy that's worse than that? 

 

Not that you're unique.  I've seen the same about Thaksin, about Putin, and about a dozen other world leaders.  Personally' I'd reserve the real tirades for the Idi Amins and Himmlers of history.  That way, credibility is preserved.

 

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, impulse said:

I'm just saying...  You've gone on worse tirades against the legally elected leader of the USA. 

 

That's the problem with calling everyone you disagree with a tyrant.  After you've called Trump "Hitlerian", what can you possibly say about this guy that's worse than that? 

 

Not that you're unique.  I've seen the same about Thaksin, about Putin, and about a dozen other world leaders.  Personally' I'd reserve the real tirades for the Idi Amins and Himmlers of history.  That way, credibility is preserved.

 

I agree with what you're saying, but I've never once equated Trump with Hitler, you're confusing me with some of the other guys on the forum. Though he is incredibly ugly, and I couldn't disagree with many of his policies more adamantly. 

[TedG]

9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This guy is absolute scum of the earth, he is gutter vermin, he's a thieving, serial killing dictator thug, who is ruining the hopes and dreams of a nation.

 

A horrific pox on his entire family. 

Is he a fascist?