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With the Gaza ceasefire holding, US President Donald Trump reckons he has “solved” his eighth war. It’s a dubious claim on multiple fronts, but credit where it’s due: Trump has been making things happen.

Burmese living in Thailand march in February 2021 against the coup led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.Credit: AP

In July, he brought Thailand and Cambodia to a shaky ceasefire after five days of fighting by frightening them with threats of soaring tariffs, earning a Nobel Peace Prize nomination from the toadying regime in Phnom Penh.

But in Australia’s neighbourhood, there is a far longer and more deadly war raging, that neither Trump, Australia – nor anyone, really, outside the pleading United Nations and the ineffective engines of ASEAN – has wanted to touch. Myanmar. And the outlook for peace there is grim, perhaps more so than at any point in the past two years.

Since stealing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a February 2021 coup, the........

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