LOOKEAST PLEASE | US Back to ‘Dirty Tricks’ in Bangladesh

[Bengal71]

These American bastards have turned the entire world into their colony. God knows how many foreign bases they have, I vaguely remember they had around thousand. The whole subcontinent has bitter memory of 200 years of colonization, people detest foreign military bases here. I hope whoever comes to power never allow the Americans or any other country a military base in BD.

Besides I don't even like the tourists going to Saint Martin's, it should be declared as a nature conservation island to protect the coral reefs and the flora and fauna.

 

[VikingRaider]

I would be happy and disappointed at the same time. Happy because it would mean people's choice still matter in the country. And Awami league did a lot of bad things for these thet do need to pay for. Although I'd rather they pay 5 years later.

Disappointed because Awami league initiated a lot of projects that are necessary. Knowing BNP, they would kill those projects. And they will get Tareq chora in power. Tbh, I wouldn't mind if Dr. Kamal or someone else from Oikkofront become pm...but I fear they will have no option other than Tareq if they do come to power.

I would have wanted a martial law. But not with the current COAS.

@Mage, exactly same feelings here. Tareq chora is the only problem, she is even bigger threat than his mother.
But did you watch the 3/4 min video of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir where he requested young voters to go to centre and choose whoever they please and he ( fakhrul) will honor their decision?
Trust me man I never ever directly heard such thing in my life that a general secretary of a political party ( who is acting leader now) asking peoples to vote whoever they please.
I am surprised and also impressed. I really want this man as BNP leader now. And if he can really act like this in future, and others will follow, then soon Bangladesh is going to be a pure democratic country as we desire.
Now let's see if we can see such acts from politicians who request peoples to go to vote centre and vote whoever they like instead of asking vote directly for his/her party that if you will not vote us, bangladesh will be talibanistan, or Bangladesh will be under india rule!
Let's hope a better political future for Bangladesh and wait for some sane leaders.
But yes minusing khaleda and tareq is necessary for this process.
Here is the video of Mr Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

 

[Mage]

@Mage, exactly same feelings here. Tareq chora is the only problem, she is even bigger threat than his mother.
But did you watch the 3/4 min video of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir where he requested young voters to go to centre and choose whoever they please and he ( fakhrul) will honor their decision?
Trust me man I never ever directly heard such thing in my life that a general secretary of a political party ( who is acting leader now) asking peoples to vote whoever they please.
I am surprised and also impressed. I really want this man as BNP leader now. And if he can really act like this in future, and others will follow, then soon Bangladesh is going to be a pure democratic country as we desire.
Now let's see if we can see such acts from politicians who request peoples to go to vote centre and vote whoever they like instead of asking vote directly for his/her party that if you will not vote us, bangladesh will be talibanistan, or Bangladesh will be under india rule!
Let's hope a better political future for Bangladesh and wait for some sane leaders.
But yes minusing khaleda and tareq is necessary for this process.
Here is the video of Mr Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

Always liked Fakhrul. Should be BNP's leader. Well, he's in effect BNP's leader now. But I heard he doesn't get along with Rizvi. Problem with BNP leaders is, without support of Khaleda and her son they are nothing. While her son expects other to do the struggle and get him into power.

 

[VikingRaider]

Always liked Fakhrul. Should be BNP's leader. Well, he's in effect BNP's leader now. But I heard he doesn't get along with Rizvi. Problem with BNP leaders is, without support of Khaleda and her son they are nothing. While her son expects other to do the struggle and get him into power.

I wish this time will be different. But indeed BNP must lose. If it lose only fakhrul can be the opposition leader, I hope Kamal Hossain will help.

And once he will.be opposition leader , he will be stronger.
And if BNP wins, then khaleda zia and tareq chora will be powerful . And that will be real disaster .
So BNP must lose in order to minus khaleda and tareq.
Other leaders are less than dog of khaleda zia.
So make one stronger, then others will be tamed automatically.
And once anyone other than zia family is become strong personality , zia family will be replaced.
And Bangladesh will enter in a new chapter.
It's a war man, and Khaleda is in jail, she can't order , and no one knows what actually she want.
So let others use her name and be stronger .
It's a method called play fire with fire. Kill poison with poison. I hope this time Bangladesh will be freed from those mother son vicious unity.

 

[bluesky]

These American bastards have turned the entire world into their colony. God knows how many foreign bases they have, I vaguely remember they had around thousand. The whole subcontinent has bitter memory of 200 years of colonization, people detest foreign military bases here. I hope whoever comes to power never allow the Americans or any other country a military base in BD.

Besides I don't even like the tourists going to Saint Martin's, it should be declared as a nature conservation island to protect the coral reefs and the flora and fauna.

Bold Part: I beg you to write down the name of the countries which are US colonies. The world order changed after the 2nd WW. Japan and Germany lost the war and US was preoccupied with the thought of USSR and China together would dominate, make the countries in Asia and Europe Communist and bring these under their feet by showing their nuclear teeth.

Japan and Germany changed their thinking after the war and accepted US domination over many regions surrounding them. The US helped Germany and other European allies to re-stand on their feet economically under the US Marshal Plan patronage. Billions and billions of dollars were spent under this plan. Japan being an Asian superpower was not eligible for Marshal Plan and being a proud nation it did not beg any help from the USA. But, like Europe it also stood back on its two feet because the USA opened its door also for Japanese manufactured exports.

Now, these two countries, South Korea and some others are supporting the new order by allowing the US to keep military bases on their land. But, it is just preposterous to say it has colonized any of these countries. So, please write down the names before name calling the USA as bastard.

 

[Bengal71]

Bold Part: I beg you to write down the name of the countries which are US colonies. The world order changed after the 2nd WW. Japan and Germany lost the war and US was preoccupied with the thought of USSR and China together would dominate, make the countries in Asia and Europe Communist and bring these under their feet by showing their nuclear teeth.

Japan and Germany changed their thinking after the war and accepted US domination over many regions surrounding them. The US helped Germany and other European allies to re-stand on their feet economically under the US Marshal Plan patronage. Billions and billions of dollars were spent under this plan. Japan being an Asian superpower was not eligible for Marshal Plan and being a proud nation it did not beg any help from the USA. But, like Europe it also stood back on its two feet because the USA opened its door also for Japanese manufactured exports.

Now, these two countries, South Korea and some others are supporting the new order by allowing the US to keep military bases on their land. But, it is just preposterous to say it has colonized any of these countries. So, please write down the names before name calling the USA as bastard.

Neocolonialism. With numerous countries invaded, occupied, millions of people dead if you don't recognize the US for what it is, i don't want to argue with you. Few countries like japana, south Korea and Europe being assisted by them for their own interest of global hegemony is not an example of their greatness.

 

[Mage]

GUYS READ THIS:

Ex-BBC man’s foul bids of annoying the US
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In an article titled – ‘US Back to ‘Dirty Tricks’ in Bangladesh’, published on December 27, 2018, Subir Bhaumik wrote: “Uncle Sam is back to unveiling its bag of dirty tricks in Bangladesh, where successive American administrations have made no secret of their dislike for Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League. As secretary of state, Hilary Clinton tried to bring huge pressure on Hasina to reinstate Mohammed Yunus [founder of Grameen Bank], not only because he was donating generously to the Clinton Foundation (something already well documented) but also because they had seen the Nobel Laureate’s potential as an American stooge. They tried to boost him to bring down the two Begums during the 1/11 takeovers backed by the army. Yunus had announced his intention to float a new political party in a press conference in Calcutta, which I attended as a BBC correspondent.”

Anyone having minimum sense would certainly understand the very intention or agenda of Subir Bhoumik – a known communist (pro-Moscow), who sees everything bad in the United States and even those who denounce Communism and authoritarianism. He is critical of the US because Washington puts emphasis on human rights and rule of law.

In the same article, he even has clearly hinted Bangladesh government’s unwillingness in welcoming observers from a US-funded election monitoring group named The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL). He went further in telling a private television channel in Bangladesh, Shomoy TV – authorities in Thailand and Cambodia had refused allowing observers from ANFREL. Here anyone can remind Bhoumik, Cambodia is a country under cruel autocracy while Thailand is under military rule. By putting Bangladesh into the same queue of Cambodia, Subir Bhoumik actually has given credence to those critics of the ruling party in Bangladesh who portray it to be autocratic.

While Subir has enthusiastically tried to prove America’s “intention” of establishing dominance in Bangladesh, he has very cunningly skipped the point of Indian government’s direct role during the 2014 questioned election in Bangladesh or India’s growing influence in Bangladesh.

Subir’s article was published at a very crucial timing when the ruling party in Bangladesh already is facing numerous criticisms at home and abroad about the holding of a free and fair election on December 30. His article and the subsequent anti-US propaganda in Bangladeshi TV channel may contribute in pressing Washington in actually taking some effective measures to ensure the holding or a free and fair election in Bangladesh or even worse. It may be mentioned here that, Shomoy TV is owned by a controversial minister of the ruling party.

In the article, Subir Bhoumik wrote, “ANFREL is funded by the US State Department through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, “Open Society Institution” (OSI) (funded by financial criminal George Soros who has bankrolled many CIA-sponsored regime change operations), and even the Australian government and the British Embassy.”

Well, here Subir sees George Soros as a “financial criminal” most probably because Soros is Jewish. On the other hand, he has put allegations on the Australian government and the British embassy for taking part in “regime change operations.” It is understandable that Subir is mad on the British authorities because of BBC’s decision of kicking him out of the job for his dubious character.

Subir has made frantic bids in the article in proving ANFREL to be funded by the United States. Is that something ANFREL or the US had ever tried to hide?

It is very likely that the US Embassy in Dhaka has already made a transcript of the Shomoy TV’s anti-US news content and sent it to Washington along with a brief about the owner of the channel. Such content may generate an impression of Dhaka’s declaring diplomatic offensives against Washington. Whoever has conceived and initiated this particular news coverage must have either done it out of ignorance or vengeance. A nationalist leader like President Donald Trump or his administration may not appreciate such exposed insult to his country.

The very motive of people like Subir Bhoumik may have missed the attention or intellect of a section of media duffers in Bangladesh. These people actually are envy of Bangladesh being a fastest growing economy in the region. For any Indian suffering from inferiority complex, it is difficult to digest such unimaginable growth of Bangladesh, which they had undermined for decades. Subir’s ulterior motive is clear. He wants Bangladesh to fall under the wrath of the United States; resulting in any stern measures such as economic sanctions. All of us know the disastrous consequence of such sanctions which would completely devastate the economic backbone of Bangladesh. That is what enemies of Bangladesh want. Subir Bhoumik is just one of them. Let us not ever step into the traps set by people like Subir Bhoumik.

https://www.weeklyblitz.net/news/ex-bbc-mans-foul-bids-of-annoying-the-us/

 

[bluesky]

Neocolonialism. With numerous countries invaded, occupied, millions of people dead if you don't recognize the US for what it is, i don't want to argue with you. Few countries like japana, south Korea and Europe being assisted by them for their own interest of global hegemony is not an example of their greatness.

You are making a foul statement of everything that is good. What hegemony are you talking about? It is very natural a big country sway hegemony over smaller countries. This has been happening since the starting of the political history of mankind. Please, invent something new instead of talking about old neocolonialism.

This word was used by the communists so many million times that it has lost all its glitters and now even the commies do not now utter it. Please invent a new vocabulary to substitute it. By the way, please send the list of those countries under the USA colonialism.

 

[Bengal71]

Neocolonialism. With numerous countries invaded, occupied, millions of people dead if you don't recognize the US for what it is, i don't want to argue with you. Few countries like japana, south Korea and Europe being assisted by them for their own interest of global hegemony is not an example of their greatness.

Why would I invent something new when the neocolonialism is alive and kicking, it doesn't matter if you suffer from monotony of the word.

Every single country is under American neocolonialism. The total and absolute control of the global economy and teh currency which gives them the ability to sanction and starve to death any country that has a different interest that goes against their interest. The total disregard for the sanctity of human lives and invasions, utter destruction and mass slaughter of humans against all International laws, the hypocrisy of telling all countries not to develop nuclear weapons while they themselves are sitting on the largest stockpile so they alone can maintain absolute dominance and can destroy any country with impunity and without a counter, the removal of democratic leaders by coups to preserve their interests in those countries while giving lip service to democracy, and many many more.

But I have nk time to give you air and waste my time on an elementary topic about the evil of the American neocolonialists. You have your opinion, I have mine. Over and out.

 

[extra terrestrial]

US ambassador Earl Robert Miller has now started pressurising the Hasina government for permission to meet the army chief, the air chief and the naval chief ahead of the elections

Uncle Sam is back to unveiling its bag of dirty tricks in Bangladesh, where successive American administrations have made no secret of their dislike for Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League . As secretary of state, Hilary Clinton tried to bring huge pressure on Hasina to reinstate Mohammed Yunus, not only because he was donating generously to the Clinton Foundation (something already well documented) but also because they had seen the Nobel Laureate’s potential as an American stooge. They tried to boost him to bring down the two Begums during the 1/11 takeovers backed by the army. Yunus had announced his intention to float a new political party in a press conference in Calcutta, which I attended as a BBC correspondent.

US ambassador Earl Robert Miller has now started pressurising the Hasina government for permission to meet the army chief, the air chief and the naval chief ahead of the elections. He is meeting the Chief Election Commissioner on Thursday but the proposed meeting with the service chiefs may have a different purpose, on which later in this column.

Miller’s embassy staff has been whipping up a furore, using media assets, over the delay in granting visas to 32 observers of the Asian Network for Free Elections ANFREL). US envoy during the Jan 2014 polls Dan Mozena had openly got into the act of bringing down the Awami League government and Khaleda Zia made the huge mistake of boycotting the polls on his advice, imagining Western pressure would make it impossible for Hasina to last beyond a few months. That did not work but the Americns never give up and Miller is back to that game again.

The US intelligence community is known for its not-so-subtle use of human rights groups to target regimes that are not seen as friendly by the Americans.

ANFREL is funded by the US State Department through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, “Open Society Institution” (OSI) ( funded by financial criminal George Soros who has bankrolled many CIA-sponsored regime change operations ), and even the Australian government and the British Embassy.

According to ANFREL’s own 2010 annual reports, it admits that:

Regarding the budget for 2010, NED has provided supported for administration expenses while other activities have been supported on a project by project basis by AusAid, USAID, OSI, Euro-Burma, Netherlands Embassy, TAF, Misereor and the British Embassy.

ANFREL’s 2011 reportalso makes mention of US State Department NED subsidiary, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), on page 5 as a source of funds. . In all of ANFREL’s annual reports, none of these organizations are mentioned by their full names, and in no part of the annual reports are ANFREL’s financial sponsors fully and transparently enumerated.

Studies by independent American scholars on CIA have identified the National Endowment for Democracy as a ‘useful front for opinion mobilization’ in countries targeted for regime change. Jeff Richelson, author of ‘Wizards of Langley’ says in his book “The US Intelligence Community” that CIA’s” support of political parties or broadcasting that would have been conducted as covert operations are now often done overtly. Thus the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) provided support to Nicaraguan political parties who ran against the left wing Sandinistas in the 1990 elections.” This funding through the NED was made possible by National Security Directive dated 22 Sept 1989 which declared that the US would undertake a vigorous overt program to ensure a free and fair election to oust the Sandinistas from power. (p.414)

In 2016, Western researcher Tony Cartalucci exposed the ANFREL’s nefarious efforts to influence the referendum in Thailand that year for a new national charter meant to put the country back on track after over a decade of political conflict revolving around US-backed proxy Thaksin Shinawatra.

Cartalucci said the US, on behalf of Shinawatra, ‘increased pressure’ on the Thai government before the vote in August 2016. Much as they are now doing on the Hasina government.

“This includes manoeuvring into place overt fronts engaged in political agitation, and leveraging the West’s monopoly over the international media to portray any attempt to crackdown on such fronts as heavy-handed and unjust,” wrote Cartalucci (.https://journal-neo.org/2016/07/30/thailand-us-funded-monitors-exposed/).

So much like many in Bangladesh media now fretting and fuming over the delay in visas for ANFREL observers, the Bangkok-based English newspaper ‘The Nation’ had reported that “The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) said that repeated attempts to gain accreditation to monitor the August 7 referendum, Thailand’s first trip to the polls since the military took power in 2014, weremet with silence.” (emphasis mine)

What the Nation did not report, like the Bangladesh media has not done this time, is who ANFREL is, who funds them, or the obvious conflicts of interest involved in their “monitoring” work across all of Asia, including Bangladesh, Thailand and Cambodia.

ANFREL’s local affiliate in Thailand,PNet(under the Open Forum for Democracy Foundation (GNDEM)), is also openly funded by the US government. OnGNDEM’s own website, it states:

GNDEM appreciates the support provided by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the support that the NED and USAID have provided to the process surrounding the Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations.

“One wonders whose best interests are served by such “monitoring” groups who apparently cannot find any support in the very region they supposedly serve, and instead rely entirely on foreign funding from nations who have historically sought to control and subjugate Asia, its people, and their resources,” wrote Tony Cartalucci.

The US groups such as the NED, the NDI, and the Open Society are engaged in funding and supporting opposition groups including theso-called “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong,the “Bersih” street movement in Malaysiaheaded by now-jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, and deceptive media frontslike Prachatai in Thailand, who openly and repeatedly attack Thailand’s indigenous institutions, while providing cover for US-backed opposition groups, including Thaksin Shinawatra’s Peua Thai Party (PTP) and his ultra-violent street front, the so-called “red shirts.”

The ANFREL was also shut out of the July 29 polls in Cambodia this year where they made a huge effort to resurrect the Cambodia National Rescue Party, which is strongly backed by the West against the pro-Chinese Hun Sen regime.

Interestingly, ANFREL’s current chairperson is a Cambodian Koul Panha. Bangladesh’s ODHIKAR, founded by Adilur Rahman Khan, is one of the founding members of the ANFREL. Khan, a Supreme Court advocate, was deputy attorney general of Bangladesh during the BNP-Jamaat reign between 2001 and 07. On ANFREL’s website, ODHIKAR’s report on Bangladesh election is prominently displayed. Without getting into the cases filed by the government against Khan, one can safely say he is no neutral person but one close to BNP-Jamaat regime.

The US is desperate for a regime change in Bangladesh because they know for a fact that Sheikh Hasina, who remains deeply convinced of the CIA’s nefarious role in the assassination of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will never allow the Americans fulfil their long-cherished strategic objective of setting up a naval base with listening posts in the St Martins islands aimed at China.

The Americans had conducted a survey on the suitability of the St Martins Islands for such a base under cover of providing relief after the 1991 cyclone just after the BNP came to power in the first democratic polls that year following the ouster of the Ershad led military junta. Miller, like his predecessors, may be trying to intensify lobbying for the base with military chiefs in Bangladesh, but Sheikh Hasina stands firmly against such a proposal, much as she has refused the Chinese proposal for a deep sea port in Sonadia when the terms did not suit her.

Hasina, an intense nationalist, is keen not to get caught in the Sino-US competition for influence in Asia, but that is exactly why the US would prefer a different dispensation more amenable to the idea.

https://nenow.in/neighbour/lookeast-please-us-back-dirty-tricks-bangladesh.html

Damn, a naval base at St. Martin's! Man, you gotta be really desperate to revive such a forgotten conspiracy theory (used to hear that when I was a kid) for whatever purposes.

There are lots of islands: Sonadia, Kutubdia, Moheshkhali, but St. Martin's? Dude Subir Bhaumik, I seriously had respect for your propaganda pieces but this is embarrassing!

On a serious not, the prevailing opinion in the US is that the suppression of dissent by the govt. of Bangladesh has led to the rise of Islamist extremism and radicalization of the youth in the country which is a threat to the US interests in the region. US is indeed trying to get involved in the election process but they are not really favoring one group over another, rather pushing for a free and fair election.

 

[The Ronin]

Damn, a naval base at St. Martin's! Man, you gotta be really desperate to revive such a forgotten conspiracy theory (used to hear that when I was a kid) for whatever purposes.

There are lots of islands: Sonadia, Kutubdia, Moheshkhali, but St. Martin's? Dude Subir Bhaumik, I seriously had respect for your propaganda pieces but this is embarrassing!

Blog: Why does America want a base in Bangladesh? (And why India isn't amused)
Saurav Jha http://@SJha1618

Updated: June 12, 2012, 11:40 AM IST
"Sustaining America's Advantage in Long Range Strike" (SALS).

The image depicts the flight path that the proposed Next Generation Bomber (NGB), being sought by the US Air Force, might take to strike targets deep within China. It is important to note that CSBA is the leading think-tank analyzing the need for the Pentagon's new AirSea Battle (ASB) concept, which looks to develop joint naval and air force doctrines and systems that would allow the US to defeat so-called Anti-Access/ Area Denial (A2/AD) weapons, and thereby continue to hold targets deep within any hostile nation's territory at risk. It was CSBA which came out with the report "AirSea Battle", a few months prior to SALS and believes that the NGB is a key enabler of any successful ASB strategy.

Source: Sustaining America's Advantage in Long Range Strike, CSBA

As we can see above, one of the possible routes the NGB or even the existing B-2 of today can take to Delingha in China (a leading light in the development of new A2/AD systems), according to the CSBA release, traverses the Bay Of Bengal, over Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and indeed North-eastern India as well. The choice of target itself is interesting, but let us leave that aside for now. That a possible journey for a proposed new American stealth bomber actually begins from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and includes flying over the territory of three Sovereign nations, is a noteworthy feature in light of Obama's pivot to Asia and the concomitant unveiling of ASB.

Now the reasons for taking such a route are, of course, sound enough. China's integrated air defense system (IADS) isn't particularly dense in the region and although new air bases have been built in south-western China, the threat metric to an ingressing NGB is weaker than what it would face on China's eastern seaboard in the South China Sea.

Of course, the NGB, given that it will have less persistence than the B-2, will require at least one refueling on a mission of this sort that begins from Diego Garcia. And it is here that the next graphic (see image 1.2 below) from the same report i.e. SALS depicts an even more interesting picture.

Source: Sustaining America's Advantage in Long Range Strike, CSBA

What we see above is a possible refueling action for the NGB that takes place, just off the Bangladeshi coast, en-route to Delingha, not too far from where Chittagong is. Now even though China has a relatively weaker air defence net oriented in this direction, such a refueling is better off taking place in sanitized air space, and that means some sort of air cover is envisioned for the NGB and the tanker, as they meet off the coast of Bangladesh.

What better way to provide that air cover than have the Seventh Fleet with its Carrier Battle Group stationed at Chittagong?

Moreover most of China's A2/AD systems (like its best air defences) are also oriented towards the South China Sea. And the most touted A2/AD system of all - China's new DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile relies on a network of land based sensors ( in addition to space based ones) to actually accomplish its role of putting at risk large moving surface craft such as Aircraft Carriers at sea. Unlike the eastern Chinese seaboard, Beijing does not have anything like the over the horizon (OTH) targeting radars and other sensors oriented towards the Bay of Bengal at moment that will make something like the DF-21D to viably project power. It may have some suspected SIGINT facilities on Myanmarese soil, but given Myanmar's rapprochement with the West anything more substantial is looking increasingly unlikely. Indeed Myanmar's re-entry into the broader comity of nations will mean that Beijing's military plans for the Myanmarese coastline are now looking rather dicey.

So, the Seventh Fleet operating in the Northern Indian Ocean is actually an excellent prospect for a Pentagon looking to roll out an effective ASB posture. It will certainly enable the kind of US Navy-Air force cooperation that ASB wants to jointly defeat A2/AD networks in an inside out fashion. In fact future American stealth UCAVS can also traverse a similar route not to mention land attack cruise missiles fired by both surface and sub-surface constituents of the Seventh Fleet.

Now, CSBA is an independent and non-profit think-tank and what we see in this piece isn't of course Official US government thinking. However, CSBA does seem to have emerged as a think tank with a very important ASB practice if we could call it that, and the NGB flight path depictions discussed above either assume that India (and indeed Bangladesh) are in a deep alliance with the US, such that they make their airspace available for such operations or that the NGB will be so stealthy that it will penetrate Indian airspace at will before doing the same to the Chinese. Neither is, of course, a particularly settling prospect to India. Not to mention that a Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal impinges on a core area of interest for India and can surveillance seed numerous Indian facilities in the vicinity, including missile test ranges.

I am sure this is not the kind of partnership India is interested in with the US.

https://www.news18.com/blogs/india/...h-and-why-india-isnt-amused-10879-746915.html

 

[extra terrestrial]

Blog: Why does America want a base in Bangladesh? (And why India isn't amused)
Saurav Jha http://@SJha1618

Updated: June 12, 2012, 11:40 AM IST
"Sustaining America's Advantage in Long Range Strike" (SALS).

The image depicts the flight path that the proposed Next Generation Bomber (NGB), being sought by the US Air Force, might take to strike targets deep within China. It is important to note that CSBA is the leading think-tank analyzing the need for the Pentagon's new AirSea Battle (ASB) concept, which looks to develop joint naval and air force doctrines and systems that would allow the US to defeat so-called Anti-Access/ Area Denial (A2/AD) weapons, and thereby continue to hold targets deep within any hostile nation's territory at risk. It was CSBA which came out with the report "AirSea Battle", a few months prior to SALS and believes that the NGB is a key enabler of any successful ASB strategy.

Source: Sustaining America's Advantage in Long Range Strike, CSBA

As we can see above, one of the possible routes the NGB or even the existing B-2 of today can take to Delingha in China (a leading light in the development of new A2/AD systems), according to the CSBA release, traverses the Bay Of Bengal, over Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and indeed North-eastern India as well. The choice of target itself is interesting, but let us leave that aside for now. That a possible journey for a proposed new American stealth bomber actually begins from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and includes flying over the territory of three Sovereign nations, is a noteworthy feature in light of Obama's pivot to Asia and the concomitant unveiling of ASB.

Now the reasons for taking such a route are, of course, sound enough. China's integrated air defense system (IADS) isn't particularly dense in the region and although new air bases have been built in south-western China, the threat metric to an ingressing NGB is weaker than what it would face on China's eastern seaboard in the South China Sea.

Of course, the NGB, given that it will have less persistence than the B-2, will require at least one refueling on a mission of this sort that begins from Diego Garcia. And it is here that the next graphic (see image 1.2 below) from the same report i.e. SALS depicts an even more interesting picture.

Source: Sustaining America's Advantage in Long Range Strike, CSBA

What we see above is a possible refueling action for the NGB that takes place, just off the Bangladeshi coast, en-route to Delingha, not too far from where Chittagong is. Now even though China has a relatively weaker air defence net oriented in this direction, such a refueling is better off taking place in sanitized air space, and that means some sort of air cover is envisioned for the NGB and the tanker, as they meet off the coast of Bangladesh.

What better way to provide that air cover than have the Seventh Fleet with its Carrier Battle Group stationed at Chittagong?

Moreover most of China's A2/AD systems (like its best air defences) are also oriented towards the South China Sea. And the most touted A2/AD system of all - China's new DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile relies on a network of land based sensors ( in addition to space based ones) to actually accomplish its role of putting at risk large moving surface craft such as Aircraft Carriers at sea. Unlike the eastern Chinese seaboard, Beijing does not have anything like the over the horizon (OTH) targeting radars and other sensors oriented towards the Bay of Bengal at moment that will make something like the DF-21D to viably project power. It may have some suspected SIGINT facilities on Myanmarese soil, but given Myanmar's rapprochement with the West anything more substantial is looking increasingly unlikely. Indeed Myanmar's re-entry into the broader comity of nations will mean that Beijing's military plans for the Myanmarese coastline are now looking rather dicey.

So, the Seventh Fleet operating in the Northern Indian Ocean is actually an excellent prospect for a Pentagon looking to roll out an effective ASB posture. It will certainly enable the kind of US Navy-Air force cooperation that ASB wants to jointly defeat A2/AD networks in an inside out fashion. In fact future American stealth UCAVS can also traverse a similar route not to mention land attack cruise missiles fired by both surface and sub-surface constituents of the Seventh Fleet.

Now, CSBA is an independent and non-profit think-tank and what we see in this piece isn't of course Official US government thinking. However, CSBA does seem to have emerged as a think tank with a very important ASB practice if we could call it that, and the NGB flight path depictions discussed above either assume that India (and indeed Bangladesh) are in a deep alliance with the US, such that they make their airspace available for such operations or that the NGB will be so stealthy that it will penetrate Indian airspace at will before doing the same to the Chinese. Neither is, of course, a particularly settling prospect to India. Not to mention that a Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal impinges on a core area of interest for India and can surveillance seed numerous Indian facilities in the vicinity, including missile test ranges.

I am sure this is not the kind of partnership India is interested in with the US.

https://www.news18.com/blogs/india/...h-and-why-india-isnt-amused-10879-746915.html

Doesn't mention anything on Saint Martin's which is just a tiny low-lying coral island. That's why I said, the propaganda piece by Subir Bhaumik would have made more sense if he used Sonadia, Moheshkhali or other areas in his theory. The story over Saint Martin's is pretty old and is even associated with the US opposition in 1971 by some.

Anyway, if the US really wanted to have a naval base here, the perfect time would have been Ershad's rule who was pretty much an American stooge.

 

[UKBengali]

Doesn't mention anything on Saint Martin's which is just a tiny low-lying coral island. That's why I said, the propaganda piece by Subir Bhaumik would have made more sense if he used Sonadia, Moheshkhali or other areas in his theory. The story over Saint Martin's is pretty old and is even associated with the US opposition in 1971 by some.

Anyway, if the US really wanted to have a naval base here, the perfect time would have been Ershad's rule who was pretty much an American stooge.

Naval base to checkmate China.

China was not on US radar till 2010s

 

[TopCat]

Why would I invent something new when the neocolonialism is alive and kicking, it doesn't matter if you suffer from monotony of the word.

Every single country is under American neocolonialism. The total and absolute control of the global economy and teh currency which gives them the ability to sanction and starve to death any country that has a different interest that goes against their interest. The total disregard for the sanctity of human lives and invasions, utter destruction and mass slaughter of humans against all International laws, the hypocrisy of telling all countries not to develop nuclear weapons while they themselves are sitting on the largest stockpile so they alone can maintain absolute dominance and can destroy any country with impunity and without a counter, the removal of democratic leaders by coups to preserve their interests in those countries while giving lip service to democracy, and many many more.

But I have nk time to give you air and waste my time on an elementary topic about the evil of the American neocolonialists. You have your opinion, I have mine. Over and out.

Dude, you are just blunt.
USA had to bear a lot of baggages due to it's allies. Not all of them are rosy and perfect.
But the common understanding of USA society and political elites are to promote democracy. Not that everytime it was applied. The alternative to USA are far worse.

Naval base to checkmate China.

China was not on US radar till 2010s

This BS story was invented by leftist in Bangladesh in 80's. Most of the country has to pay for US base in their soil for example Japan Korea Germany etc. How much BD will contribute to US base in St. Martin?

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

WTF you going on about. The article is written by an Indian.

its an huge indian concern that what if someone play on their truff its a well known fact that even hassina's security is under indian intelligence.
indian have huge lollypop for Bangladesh that look your economy is doing great what els you need after all we are your well wisher