Myanmar is a poor country struggling with open ethnic warfare and a coronavirus outbreak that could overload its broken hospitals. That hasn’t stopped its politicians from commiserating with a country they think has lost its way.
"I feel sorry for Americans,” said Myint Oo, a member of Parliament in Myanmar. "But we can’t help the U.S. because we are a very small country.”
The same sentiment prevails in Canada, where two out of three people live within about 100 kilometers of the U.S. border.