{"id":9164,"date":"2026-04-09T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:43:52","slug":"what-lessons-should-asia-take-from-americas-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2026\/04\/what-lessons-should-asia-take-from-americas-war-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"What Lessons Should Asia Take from America\u2019s War on Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Myanmar Spring Chronicle \u2013 Scenes from April 8<\/em><\/h2>\n

(MoeMaKa), April\u00a09, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n

What Lessons Should Asia Take from America\u2019s War on Iran?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, it was announced that the United States and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire through Pakistani mediation. The U.S. war on Iran lasted for more than a month, from February 28 to April 7. Because the war caused extremely high levels of death, destruction, and damage to energy infrastructure, all of the neighboring Gulf states were affected. In terms of war costs alone, the United States and Israel were reportedly spending billions of dollars a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global energy crisis has been felt everywhere, but the impact has been especially severe on Asian countries that depend on the Middle East for oil, gas, and fertilizer inputs. China, India, Japan, Australia, and countries across Asia are all suffering economic strain from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. It would be fair to say that they are now moving quickly to rethink and revise economic and political strategies that depend too heavily on a single foreign geographic region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For developed and developing Asian countries that have grown up relying on American and Western values, it cannot yet be said that they are ready to free themselves from Western influence altogether. At the same time, Asian countries may also have to reconsider whether to move from keeping China\u2014the region\u2019s great economic and political power\u2014at arm\u2019s length toward a closer and more practical relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That does not necessarily mean Asia must readjust its position and relationships simply because Western standards, values, and frameworks are declining. Rather, Asian countries are also paying the price for the unstable and extremist policies of the current leaders and governments in the United States and the West. Another question remains: if governments in the West change again, will Asia\u2019s old dependence on the West simply return to the way it was before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, if Asia is merely left watching changes from the outside and reacting from the sidelines, that would be shameful. This is precisely the period when experts are predicting that the leading countries of the future will come from Asia. While the United States and Europe are becoming societies with increasingly aging populations, Asian countries are seeing growth in their younger generations. India, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and even Myanmar have all been identified as countries with large future youth populations and strong working-age generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These countries are called \u201cemerging countries,\u201d and many predict that they will help lead the future of the world. Yet at the same time, many are being forced to endure delays in national progress because of backward-looking, extremist behavior by aging leadership circles in the West. For that reason, future young leaders may see this as an opportunity to focus on building stronger and more advanced countries rooted in their own regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Western countries are burdened by soaring military costs, healthcare costs, inflation, labor costs, high living expenses, expensive housing, and crippling education costs, the time may have come for Asian countries to stop carrying the burdens of the West. Instead, they may need to reform old systems and older generations at home, and build up lower-cost, more sustainable domestic consumer societies that match their own capacity and strength\u2014while making better use of production, skills, and new generational resources. This is increasingly how future national leaders appear to be thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the United States and Western European countries are adopting policies that are less welcoming to younger generations of foreign migrants who want to settle there. Wealthy countries like Japan, South Korea, and the Arab states of the Middle East also do not appear ready to truly welcome young foreign generations, except as temporary migrant workers. Asian and African countries are becoming increasingly aware of this reality as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Asia\u2019s young generations, the focus should be on learning how to make use of the surplus goods, consumer products, and services coming from aging systems and countries in ways that benefit their own societies. New technologies like AI may be produced by the United States and the West, but the ability to study, learn, and apply those technologies is no longer confined within their borders. It is now reaching younger generations across Asia, Africa, and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One example\u2014though not a pleasant one\u2014is the transnational scam syndicates operating beyond the reach of law in parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China, and some Asian countries. These criminal networks are capable of extracting hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars through fraud. Their basic labor often comes from citizens of third countries, while the technologies, devices, and networks they rely on are sourced from the West. Their victims are frequently older people and greedy middle-aged targets in the United States and Western countries, who are deceived and defrauded of their money. For both Eastern and Western governments, fully dismantling these scam syndicates has become an extremely difficult challenge. The energy of Asia\u2019s younger generations can become either a danger if misused, or a cure if used wisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The younger generations of Asia\u2019s high-population countries must not become hunters searching for prey. Nor should they become prey for exploitation by others. Let us continue striving so that, in the future, Asian countries may become self-reliant, strong, newly urbanized states\u2014producing for themselves, consuming for themselves, and enjoying the fruits of their own labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myanmar Spring Chronicle \u2013 Scenes from April 8 (MoeMaKa), April\u00a09, 2026 What Lessons Should Asia Take from America\u2019s War on Iran? Yesterday, it was announced that the United States and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire through Pakistani mediation.…<\/p>\n

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