all right Alexander let's talk about the situation in Bangladesh uh we we did get a coup that's that's the way it looks um actually the the coup prime minister has said it was a Us coup so she's come out and said it was a coup uh the the United States denies that it was a a coup in in Bangladesh but um we do have a an interim prime minister Eunice who does appear to be a type of Juan guo character for the United States someone who comes from from their side of things who's who's who's
gone through the process that that they put leaders through in order to to put them into into uh leadership roles in in other governments so we have him in in place and we have some indication at least from the coup prime minister as to what all of this was about basically this was about uh control of the uh the Bay of benal and and obviously this is something that that India and China will probably have to address if this was indeed what the coup was was about yeah I I I think I I'm absolutely sure
that this was a coup um it's I mean if if you want to to look at the sort of you know the way it was set up I mean Brian btic has done a good program about this on his channel but I mean I have no doubt it was a coup um and all you have all you have to do is look at the person who's taken over unit is somebody with a very very long connection to the United States going all the way back to the 1960s he is very strongly pro-american he's very hostile
both to India and China and the whole way in which the uh events were were executed is just very consistent with um the whole color Revolution format um protests by young people students as they're called and many of them are course students but you know protests about them stories spread about violence against the protesters Ian there may have been violence against the protesters I'm not saying but U we always get stories about violence against the protesters in this particular type of scenario then the uh police and military who are expected who who you know might
have been expected to stand behind the Constitutional and democratically elected prime minister which is what the Prime Minister was it's important to remember this anyway they they Melt Away perhaps they've been bribed perhaps they've been persuaded maybe many of them are not particularly enthusiastic about for all kinds of reasons but anyway they melt away and she is forced to take the helicopter and fly off to India and go into Exile and everything collapses around her and then the uh new person steps in interim prime minister and he's absolutely as I said the kind of person
that you can imagine handpicked by the United States and you know we've seen this play out place after place and time after time the if you want me to say which one it resembles most closely it is the maidan events of 2014 in Kiev I mean it's almost exactly the same as that and um the explanation I think the Prime Minister the assid Prime Minister hasima has provided it the Americans want an AAL base in Bangladesh so that they could control the Bay of Bengal by the way this is one of those bad ideas that
has been floating around in um the Pentagon for a very very long time I can remember that it was being first I mean I actually can remember this it was first being debated in the uh early 1970s late 1960s I mean it gets me all that way um um the Americans then lost interest in it for a while because firstly Bangladesh became independent of Pakistan and started to tilt a bit more towards India this is in the 70s then the US and China and that basically that Naval Base was really principally targeted at China um
in those days uh the US and China had a long period of very good relations but now of course us relations with China are not so good in fact they're very bad the US sees China as its adversary us relations with India which has been historically the country that has been had the closest relationship with Bangladesh it was the Indian army that intervened in Bangladesh in 1971 and helped Bangladesh achieve independence of Pakistan anyway um India's relations with the United States are not so good anymore either so you have a coup you get the Naval
Base eventually they will get their Naval Base the American warships will be able to operate at the Bay of Bengal and that was why Hashima had to go and that's why the coup happened I am not saying by the way and this is important point to make that there were not reasons for discontent within Bangladesh that there is no doubt that definitely were there's been inflation there's been economic issues there was issues about a government Recruitment and education recruitment policy not issues in themselves which one would have expected would lead to the collapse of the
government and as for the economic situation yes it is true true that there has been an economic boom in Bangladesh yes it is also true that the benefits of that boom have been very unevenly distributed but that is what often happens in countries like Bangladesh and usually you do not expect events like this to take place spontaneously in countries which have had a prolonged economic up upswing so yes I think this was a coup I've set I've set out why and the objective it seems to me are very clear and it will prove horribly counterproductive
in the end both for Bangladesh and dare I say for the United States also because India and China are going to have to respond to this I mean how do how do they view this well they don't use view this with any favor I mean uh China of course um is extremely um concerned about the potential establishment of a u another US Naval Base in the Bay of Bengal um China of course does not have a coastline in this area but if there's American warships in the Bay of Bengal well you know conceivably I'm not
sure about ranges and things of this kind but you could perhaps imagine us um Navy being used to launch strikes against Chinese positions and of course it also enables the the US to put pressure on other countries in this area Myanmar Thailand Thailand thinking about joining the bricks for example it it it pro it creates another pressure point that the United States could potentially use against Chinese the Chinese are obviously not happy but the country that is most unhappy and most concerned is India hasima who was the Prime Minister of India Bangladesh the one who's
just been overthrown a very close Ally and friend of indias her father shik Muju Rahman who by the way Ju Just you know remember he was the independence leader in Bangladesh he was s who was very close to India and she has been very close to India also so what's happened is that a pro-indian government has been overthrown in a country that neighbors India it's been replaced by a pro-american government and the Indians are not going to be happy at all about this and perhaps not coincidentally um they have been making moves over the last
uh period of time to try to improve their relations with China uh Jai Shankar the Indian foreign minister and Wang Yi had a meeting in Laos this is before the events in Bangladesh took place but you can see the buildup to it um they had a meeting in La which apparently went very well um they're now again trying to come to terms about detentions On the Border the Chinese media has been pointing out to the Indians that look um we're not really your enemies we're not trying to overthrow you the US is much more your
enemy than we are and of course the Indians have to worry that what happened in Bangladesh might be attempted by the US in India itself not I think directly I don't think the US believes that it can mount a color Revolution against the Indian government India is huge I think we almost impossible to do that but there are lots of places within India itself Kashmir other places as well where if you wanted to create trouble for the Indian government you could and I think that this is a signal to the Indians from the US that
if they step out of line go on doing what they're doing pursuing their independent policies um the full force of the United States will be turned upon them and I don't think the Indians for all kinds of reasons can sacrifice their independence in that sort of way so they're going to be looking for friends and that can only mean the breaks and that can only mean some kind of a reconciliation with China yeah I mean the big question is why now why did they decide to to pull the trigger on on a Bangladesh coup because
because you said this has been in the works for a long time but but the the United States the Pentagon they they never went through with it fully but for some reason they decided to pull the trigger now at this moment in time and and the only logical explanation is they're they're getting nervous at at seeing bricks at seeing uh rep between China and India at seeing India becoming much more independent Sovereign more powerful it's becoming a much more powerful uh country so you know to me it seems like this was this was a panic
move in a way but but a move nonetheless to to say okay well we're gonna establish our our Naval Base here right next to you and uh and here we are so so don't don't get out of line correct that's exactly what it is and I I think this is uh this is how it will be seen in India I mean this will be seen as a very very unfriendly act Indian American relations have been deteriorating for some months the the US expected that India would go all in into an alliance with the us against
China and that hasn't really happened India is a member of the quad but the quad has never morphed into the kind of anti-chinese Alliance that I think the US thought it would um and of course India maintains and preserves this very long established and very popular in India relationship with Russia so I I I think that the Americans have been very frustrated with India and you've been seeing for a host for quite a few months now a sort of drum beat of criticism of India coming from uh the US and Western countries so a couple
of months ago there was um complaints about the fact that various seek separatists in Canada and the US had been assassinated supposedly by Indian agents there were suggestions that Prime Minister Modi himself was implicated in those assassinations you remember we talked about it at the time we said this looked like a warning shot directed at Modi um we had uh and it was also staged even as India was uh on the eve of the G20 Summit meeting in India which Modi was hosting so all of those stories appeared then so anyway and and then after
that we had more criticisms of India during the Parliamentary elections attempts to spin the elections as a electoral defeat for Modi even though he's been reelected for the third time which is um only one other Indian Prime Minister jaah Halal neru has ever achieved that but anyway they came after Modi then there's been a drum beat of criticism which has been steadily growing now he went to Moscow couple of weeks ago if you remember met with Putin lots of economic agreements taken agreed at that time and um he trying to balance that by a trip
to Ukraine though that is not yet crystallized and appears to have been postponed perhaps to the end of this month but anyway they they're now taking a much more aggressive step with this coup in Bangladesh which will only land them with more problems the Indians and the Chinese more likely to sort of converge with each other the Indians and the Chinese inevitably hostile to this government in dhakar in Bangladesh Bangladesh a country that is not fully stable anyway it's been through an economic boom but it needs a lot more investment to develop economically in order
to develop economically it needs good relations with its neighbors India and of course China which is perhaps the only country that could um invest in and would which might be interested in investing and building up Bangladesh infrastructure which Bangladesh urgently needs all of that has been sacrificed again to a geopolitical game which to my mind has absolutely no value the US won't gain anything in the end Bangladesh won't gain anything in the end all that's going to happen is that this the region is going to become more unstable all right we will end the video
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