The old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" isn't exactly true. During WWII the USSR was a U.S. ally. Roosevelt and our news outlets referred to Stalin with the affable term "Uncle Joe". The truth was that Stalin was a murderous monster before and after the war. We used the USSR just as they used us. Friends? – not by a long shot. The "Uncle Joe” moniker was dropped after the war and our pro-USSR propaganda was replaced with the reality that the communist USSR was our enemy.
Would we call Nazis good guys because they hated communists? Hardly! Myanmar military the good guy? TBD.
During WWII, people knew who Stalin was. But they held their nose.
“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
— Winston Churchill
Yeah, it’s not looking particularly good there.
2 journalists detained as Myanmar junta clamps down on press
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/19/myanmar-junta-chokes-information-flow-as-protests
Dead Nazis. Dead Commies. Both are good things.
I follow Maxim 29: “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, no more, no less.”
The Myanmar military is certainly no more corrupt than the government they overthrew. If they are doing damage to enemies of freedom, then I wish them well in their efforts.