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Originally Posted by spinoza
The planes would get shot down by anti-aircraft guns, and anyway the RN or USN wouldn't get close enough to the Burmese coast without being warned away by the Chinese or Indian navies. Not to mention that it's largely pointless unless you really do plan to invade.
Same reason why there haven't been food aid / medicine drops on Zimbabwe. It's illegal, and it doesn't accomplish a great deal without a follow up plan.
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I doubt China or India would warn us off, China especially as her navy as too far away around lower Indochina and is of a very limited capacity, though it is very problematic but there is precident.
Whether it is illegal or not seems not to be as simple, there are some interpretations out there that humanitarian intervention is within international law.