If Banga is so great, why are they all sneaking into Europe?Bangladesh has been outperforming its neighbors, it's done fairly well relative to its neighbors:
Bangladesh's economic growth faster than India: How?
From a 'hopeless' case to the world's seventh-fastest growing economy. How did Bangladesh do it?readon.substack.com
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Say what? Well, from a divide and conquer perspective, it makes sense.
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Similar enough departure to Ukraine's Yanukovych after Maidan 2014.
It's all relative. Yes, Bangladesh is a filthy, desperately poor dump. Also, yes they are growing rapidly, the birth rate is down from formerly excessive levels, and they are way better off than they were. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
Bangladesh is not growing rapidly. They just print funny money inject it in economy et voila magic GDP growth.
This is copied straight out of India's info sphere.Analyzing The Regime Change Sequence That Toppled Bangladesh’s Long-Serving Prime Minister (Andrew Korybko)
Here’s how everything unfolded from the start of this summer’s initially peaceful student-led protests against the judiciary’s reimposition of a contentious government job quota system to the spree of urban terrorism that ultimately forced the country’s long-serving leader to flee for her life to India.
Casual news consumers don’t know much about Bangladesh apart from it being a South Asian country that just experienced a regime change, but it’s also the eighth-most-populous country with one of the world’s largest textile industries and a highly geostrategic position. Bangladesh borders India’s Northeast States that are connected to the “mainland” by the “Chicken’s Neck”, which is only 12-14 miles wide at its narrowest, and some of these same states have been troubled by ethno-separatist unrest for years.
Former long-serving Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was a de facto Indian ally despite cultivating close ties with China and the US. She shared Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of regional development and thus allowed his country transit rights across hers for facilitating trade with its Northeast States. Moreover, Hasina prevented her country from being used by related militant groups that are designated by Delhi as terrorists, and she also cracked down on religious radicals too.
Although the Bangladeshi economy rapidly grew under her leadership, she resorted to a heavy hand to maintain domestic stability, which upset the increasingly large number of Islamist-inclined youth who considered her government’s legal cases against the opposition to be “anti-democratic lawfare”. Controversial tactics by the security services inadvertently worsened domestic dissent and ultimately led to targeted sanctions by the US, which was already becoming unhappy with her multipolar balancing act.
The past fourteen months saw the worsening of her ties with America after she accused it of fomenting regime change against her in April 2023, followed by Russia expressing concerned in November that it might orchestrate a Color Revolutionduring January 2024’s elections that the opposition boycotted. Less than three months ago, Hasina strongly implied that the US was the Western country that she accused of plotting to carve out a Christian proxy state in the region after she rejected its demand for a base.
Shortly thereafter, the High Court reinstated the contentious government job quota system in late June that had been declared illegal in 2018, which served as the trigger event for mobilizing a large segment of the population to take to the streets against that decision. This movement was initially driven by students but was quickly co-opted by opportunistic members of the opposition, Western-cultivated elements of civil society, and religious radicals, which culminated in her resignation and flight this week:
* 10 January 2024: “The Outcome Of The Bangladeshi & Bhutanese Elections Gives India Strategic Breathing Space”
* 28 January 2024: “The Bangladeshi Opposition’s New Narrative Is Meant To Maximally Appeal To The West”
* 27 May 2024: “Bangladesh Warned About A Western Plot To Carve Out A Christian Proxy State In The Region
* 25 July 2024: “The Unrest In Bangladesh Isn’t A Color Revolution But It Could Still Easily Become One”
* 5 August 2024: “Bangladesh Has Descended Into The Throes Of A Full-Blown Color Revolution”
* 5 August 2024: “What’s The Best Way Forward For Bangladesh After Its Regime Change Surprisingly Succeeded?”
* 6 August 2024: “The Post-Coup Political Violence In Bangladesh Bodes Ill For Its Future Direction”
The preceding analyses document the regime change sequence that took place, which continued after the quota system was scaled back and succeeded due to the rioters gambling that the armed forces wouldn’t resort to lethal force to prevent large numbers of them from storming the parliament and her palace. Average Bangladeshis unconnected to the opposition, religious radicals, and foreign forces also participated in them after being enraged at decontextualized footage of state-on-“protester” violence.
This tactic is characteristic of Color Revolutions and was employed by violent rioters, who many suspect to be the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) banned Jamaat-e-Islami allies, provoking the security services into using lethal force as a last resort to restore safety to the streets. Those individuals were joined the unrest after seeing this footage became unwitting “human shields” for deterring the security services from replicating the aforementioned means out of fear of killing peaceful protesters.
Although social media was banned and a curfew imposed, many still came across that footage and an uncontrollable number of angry citizens then spilled into the streets, thus forcing the security services into the dilemma that was just described and leading to them standing down. Hasina fled once it became clear that she couldn’t count on the security services to protect her and uphold the government that she led. Retributive political violence and attacks against the Hindu minority then followed.
India is concerned about the possibility of Bangladesh reverting to the unfriendly country that it used to be under the BNP, which could see it once again host Delhi-designated terrorist groups as part of a major proxy war against this emerging Great Power. Pakistan’s hatred of India is well known, China is embroiled in a bitter border dispute with India, and the US is furious that India won’t submit to being a vassal by dumping Russia and fighting China on its behalf, so all three have reasons to punish it in this way.
Their interests could therefore converge in Bangladesh to pose serious threats to India’s domestic security and territorial integrity. In that worst-case scenario, the combined effect of their policies – whether coordinated or independently promulgated – would be to sabotage India’s rise as a Great Power, thus representing a major power play in the New Cold War. It’s too early to say whether that’ll happen, but it also can’t be ruled out by India either, which is closely monitoring this neighboring crisis.
Analyzing The Regime Change Sequence That Toppled Bangladesh’s Long-Serving Prime Minister
Here’s how everything unfolded from the start of this summer’s initially peaceful student-led protests against the judiciary’s reimposition of a contentious government job quota system to the spree of urban terrorism that ultimately forced the country’s long-serving leader to flee for her life...
Kind of weird how Hasina is suddenly framed as politically opposed to US machinations in the region. Not congruent with reality at all. Google searches on 'US aid to Bangladesh' and 'Hasina official visit where' show how unaligned this talking point is with the nuances of the real world.
For those unwilling to use Google, here is the website of USAID, which is a known de facto US intel asset, claiming a strong 'a strong friendship' with Bangladesh. The website also states that Bangladesh is 'the largest recipient of USAID in Asia'. As for the 23 official visits made by Hasina since 2018 (have to draw the line somewhere), 11 were made to NATO members (UK, USA, Spain, Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland), 6 to regional NATO aligned/ neutral counties like Japan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the Maldives and Brunei, 3 official visits were made to India, 2 to China and 1 to Azerbaijan.
Interesting addendum: much of the US aid to the Rohingyas - the weaponized Muslim minority in Myanmar's Arakhan province, has been coming through Bangladesh too. Around 2 billion USD since 2017.
Bangladesh | U.S. Agency for International Development
The United States has long shared a strong friendship with Bangladesh since the country’s independence. It is a partnership driven by common interests that also recognizes Bangladesh as a key U.S. strategic partner in South Asia.www.usaid.gov
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_prime_ministerial_trips_made_by_Sheikh_Hasinau
To add some more counterweight to the one sided posting here on Sheikh Rasina, during her reign Sheikh Hasina has syphoned off more than 63 billion USD which was subsequently moved out of the country, mostly to Swiss bank accounts. Her cronies added another 90 billion to that tally according to the report below.
Time to bring back smuggled money
Those who were involved in stealing funds from the country must be held accountable.www.thedailystar.net
More than anything else Sheikh Hasina represents third world cronyism, endemic corruption, tyranny, and shameless political opportunism. It's money politics first and foremost, and geopolitics-wise they are willing to work with anyone as long as there is a commission involved. Ideology or moral convictions don't play a role. Domestically anyone that opposed her was met with bullets, the latest round of genuine protestors angry with the country's neo-feudal systems were immediately dubbed 'bandits and miscreants'. A shoot-on-sight policy was almost immediately ordered by Hasina.
Sheikh Hasina is part of Bangladesh's main political dynasty, as her father Mujibur Rahman is Bangladesh's founding father and the former leader of the Awami League. Her family ties are equally indicative of her multivector foreign policy. Sheikh Hasina's sister is a UK citizen. Sheikh Hasina's cousin, Tullip Siddiq, is the current UK Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister. Her daughter, Saima Wazed, is the head of the WHO in South Asia and resides in India and NYC. Her son Sajeeb Wazed studied and lived in the USA for more than 20 years. His wife and daughter are both US citizens, though he denies being a US citizen.
Long story short, Hasina never opposed US influence in Bangladesh or did anything to curtail it. NGOs could register as long as they were willing to pay up. Same for official US agencies - as long as there was a kickback Hasina was ready to play ball.
I don't see many indicators of this being a color revolution at all. Especially not when looking at the outward manifestations of the protests. In general color revolutions share certain characteristics that make it rather easy to identify them. Color revolutions, for instance, are extremely media savvy. The designers are good at optics and have a clear message and certain charisma to mostly younger people at home and abroad. Signage is in English and pre-printed, a bright color gets picked to identify and slick (and often attractive) media savvy youngsters are made the faces of the movement.
When we look at Bangladesh there is none of that. Hardly any pre-printed signage in English, no appeal to foreign media (who here knew this has been going on for 3 weeks already) no slick media campaign, no bubbly bright color, no good looking faces of the revolution, etc.
The first photo is from the 2014 Sunflower Revolution in Taiwan. The second picture is from Myanmar, 2022. Both clear color revolutions. The third photo is Bangladesh 2024.View attachment 11212View attachment 11214View attachment 11213
Likewise I don't expect Bangladesh to make any major changes on the grand chessboard. The US probably will improve its position in the country but only slightly. Bangladesh is not suddenly going to opt out of Chinese real estate projects, sign its ports away to the US, cancel Russian grain deals or review its current non-aligned status - just like Pakistan didn't when upstart Imran Khan got capped by the military, even though much of the alt media predicted as much. The only clear loser in all of this will be India but that is at best a regional affair and has a different root cause.
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Everything in this world is so whiny and jewish. No class, no civility, no beauty, no ascesis, just jewish ugliness.Sheinbaum putin relation off to a very good start.
Last week mexico invite putin for the inauguration. Mexico is long friend of Russia. Obrador friend of putin too. Sheinbaum is obradors heir, she will be good for russia and putin too.
Sheinbaum is the first leader to defy ICC arrest warrant.
Mexican president says authorities cannot arrest Putin in case of his visit
Lopez Obrador confirmed that the authorities had sent invitations to Sheinbaum's inauguration to the heads of all countries with which Mexico has diplomatic relations
Sheinbaum to foster ties between Russia, Mexico, Putin hopes
The Russian leader wished his future counterpart "every success in the government activity as well as health and prosperity"
Also neo nazis in Kiev want sheinbaum to arrest Putin this is not going to happen!
Ukraine requests Mexico arrest Putin if he attends inauguration
The Ukrainian embassy in Mexico on Aug. 7 asked the Mexican government to arrest Russian leader Vladimir Putin if he attends the inauguration of president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.
Most people don’t live with greater awareness or purpose, but just live day to day, sleepwalking through life. Complaining, being weak, and living with a sense of innate scarcity is how TBTB want us to exist.
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