Biden Regime behind Another Foreign Flub?
Last week Bangladesh was hit with a political storm that brought down its government. Mass protests against the democratically elected government led to the abrupt resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who fled the country to safety in the friendly neighbor India. Not many suspected at first whether there was any foreign hand in this political earthquake in Bangladesh. But now, Sheikh Hasina has made a bombshell revelation: the Biden administration had the key role in ousting her.
Over the weekend, Sheikh Hasina told India’s daily The Economic Times that she would have stayed in power if she had agreed to surrender the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and given America control over the Bay of Bengal. The former Prime Minister said:
“I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed America to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal. I beseech the people of my land, please do not be manipulated by radicals.”
On Sunday (August 11), Newsable Asianet News cited intelligence sources that were reported by CNN-News18 stating that both the US and UK played important roles in the crisis that led to Sheikh Hasina’s resignation. The story wrote:
It is reportedly said that the US fabricated concerns about election fairness and imposed sanctions on Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) over human rights abuses as part of a broader geopolitical strategy.
Adding details to indicate the larger political goal behind such involvement in Bangladesh’s unrest, the report suggests that the plan means to drag India into conflict with its neighbors, namely Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and China. It also claims that Pakistani intelligence is “playing a significant role in this complex situation.”
The American mainstream news media has remained quiet on Sheikh Hasina’s statement. However foreign media has published it and put it in perspective of relevant details. RT (Russia Today) reported that over the past months, a number of Bangladeshi officials claimed to have knowledge of US proposals seeking to lease Saint Martin Island, which were all refused by Sheikh Hasina’s government. Sheikh Hasina was also cited saying that “white men,” by which she meant Americans, met with her before the previous election and tried to persuade her to let them build an air base on Saint Martin Island.
Sheikh Hasina’s revelation about the Biden administration’s pursuit of military presence by the Bay of Bengal comes at a time when the political and military tensions in the nearby Middle East are increasingly on the rise with fears of a large-scale war impending between Israel and Iran and their allies. The U.S. military bases in Syria have already come under attacks allegedly from the Iranian side after Israel carried out multiple strikes against Iran and its allies in the Arabian Gulf. At the same time, the U.S. military has been kicked out of Niger and Chad this year by the governments of the African nations.
Fact checkers have not weighed in on this yet.
As such, Dempsey is copying others, but no one has a second source on any of these “facts” yet.
Why does America have to have it’s nose in every little conflict or concern around the world.?
Because most of the time, our crooked politicians and government are the one creating the conflict!
That is why there were NO conflicts any were in the word when Trump was President.
He did not care about paying off the ones who got him elected.
Darren. I believe you mean Trump did not start any new wars. That is correct.
He was in and escalated many. He left none He raised the civilian death toll of innocents a lot over Obama. On purpose but beyond killing more civilians needlessly, he just follow Obamas plan to diminish ISIS which came back again under Trump.
Putin did not give back Crimea. Kim continues nuclear and missile development. Iran nuke development started up again. Trump was all braggadocio and they knew it. Throw him a compliment bone, pretend you like him and he will fold like a napkin they can wipe their asses with.
i must respectfully disagree with you a little on this one Frank. I think your view is limited to “hot wars”. Trump was a “cold wars” kind of guy.
Trump did start wars, but they were economic wars. He lost every one of them, the biggest being the trade war with China. The wars of the 21st century will be different than traditional wars. They will be economic wars, soft power wars, food & resources (sanctions included), and cyber style of wars. Trump did not upgrade our infrastructure and left us very vulnerable to cyber attacks. Trump allowed the Chinese and Russians and Indians to exceed us on latest hypersonic missiles.
Also, Trump was not for the people. While it is not considered a war, the results of his tepid Covid-19 response had the same effect and killed 20X more people then we lost in Vietnam. All for his vanity because he did not want a pandemic on his watch.
Trump was not for the people, he started and encouraged an insurrection which to me is like beginning a war, in this case, a war on the People’s vote!!! People were killed and property damaged thanks to Trump and his MAGA army. And he continues his war on mail in ballots and expanding voting rights and abilities even today!!!
And Trump surrendered the Pacific Rim to the Chinese. He did not even fire a shot or make a proposal to keep U.S. influence in the Pacific!!! He just removed us from the treaty and left a vacuum for the Chinese to fill.
Trump also is responsible for not pulling out of Afghanistan on time and saddling Biden with having to do it on the fly. Biden is responsible for not doing it well and screwing it up further.
Trump increase the war on immigrants, both the verbal war and the immigration system by not reforming it, rather saddling Mexico with the task.
Trump was then as he is now, heavily engaged in a war of words over our institutions where he is attempting to undermine confidence in them and get We The People to believe we are a failed country and only he can save us.
Tom you and Frank are both full of shit. Tou doctor and make these flowery comments that are only opinions, and we all know about opinions. DJT did more for this country then any POTUS since Reagan.
Well Shep, all you did in your post was hurl insults and make an unsubstantiated claim!!! Please list at least 5 of those wonderful accomplishments!!! And please state your reference link or sources so I can verify.
Yes, Frank and I state really good shit and we prove it with links to articles and other research from reputable places. I know you object to that because most MAGA folks hate truth, especially truth about Trump. Trump did much more damage than he did good.
Hi Tim, thanks for your kind comments. I will let Tom roll his own, but I said:
Trump did not start any new wars. That is correct.
He was in and escalated many (wars).
He left none. (he did draw down Afghanistan and Syria to dangerous levels) (surely I don’t have to prove THIS to you?)
He raised the civilian death toll of innocents a lot over Obama.
he just followed Obamas plan to diminish ISIS, although he increased risk potentials to innocents over Obama’s plan
ISIS came back again under Trump.
Putin did not give back Crimea (surely you need no check for this fact)
You say that’s my opinion. It is not. They are facts from Trump’s reign of terror. Do you want sources? I take it you already know that Trump started no new wars. Can you list a war he left? No,
Lastly, I said “Trump was all braggadocio and they knew it. Throw him a compliment bone, pretend you like him and he will fold like a napkin they can wipe their asses with.” I can give you many experts espousing this, but agree —- it’s an opinion based on facts, but an opinion.
Here’s one source, VOX, leftist for sure, but check the facts: “Trump is no less willing to use military force, and arguably more so.
Some of the data is sobering.” “Trump did a lot more than order “few missile and drone strikes”: In Iraq and Syria alone, drone strikes launched against ISIS and other terrorist groups killed an estimated 13,400 civilians, per data from Airwars, a nonprofit watchdog affiliated with the University of London. That’s roughly three times as many as were killed by American bombs in the 1991 Gulf War, the 1998-1999 Kosovo intervention, and the Libya war combined.
It’s relatively easy to show Trump’s culpability here: His administration relaxed Obama-era rules of engagement designed to protect civilians. And once swampy Joe Biden became president, drone strikes in Syria and Iraq virtually ended.
That’s just one area. His broader record, in the Middle East and elsewhere, provides plenty of evidence of Trump’s hawkishness.
In 2017, Trump became the first US president to order an attack on the Syrian government, bombing an airfield in retaliation for chemical weapons strikes, something Obama famously refused to do. In 2018, he pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and bombed Syrian government positions again. In 2019, Trump approved airstrikes on Iranian soil, only to call the planes back literally while they were in the air. And in 2020, he had General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds force, assassinated while the Iranian leader was near the Baghdad airport.
Similarly, Trump dramatically increased US airstrikes on Islamist groups in Somalia over Obama levels, and approved the sale of unguided “dumb” bombs to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen (something the Obama administration blocked). Though Trump frequently stated his opposition to the war in Afghanistan, and eventually did negotiate a withdrawal agreement, he began his presidency by escalating it — sending 3,000 new troops to fight the Taliban, a more than 25 percent increase from the pre-Trump presence. He also openly bragged about relaxing rules of engagement for bombings in Afghanistan, a policy that nearly doubled civilian casualties per year over the Bush- and Obama-era average.
In 2017, before he became friends with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Trump nearly started a war with his country — deploying an “armada” (his words) to the region, and threatening the North with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” in the midst of mounting tensions surrounding Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
In 2018, Trump threatened to invade Venezuela to topple leftist dictator Nicolás Maduro. In 2019, he launched a broad-based sanction policy explicitly designed to collapse the Maduro government — an open regime change operation.
During that same time, Trump significantly escalated tensions with China over Taiwan — taking provocative actions deliberately designed to send a message of US commitment to the island’s defense. “In the past nine months, U.S. ships have sailed through the Taiwan Strait six times. During the Obama administration, passages were far less frequent, at just one to three times per year,” the Council on Foreign Relations’ Lindsay Maizland wrote in April 2019.
Even in Europe, where Trump’s rhetorical attacks on NATO and cozying up to Putin provide the best evidence of a break with “establishment” thinking, Trump’s record is more hawkish than widely appreciated.
In 2017, Trump sent a full armored brigade to NATO allies on Russia’s border. In 2018, he provided Ukraine with lethal military assistance in its conflict with Russia in Eastern Ukraine (something Obama refused to do, and that Trump would later try to use to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy).
In 2019, he withdrew from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement designed to tamp down on nuclear tensions. In 2020, he backed out of the Open Skies Treaty, which created rules for reconnaissance overflights designed to tamp down on military tensions.”
ISIS: *https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/one-year-islamic-state-worldwide-activity-map* If you look further, you will see IS was kicked out of Syria, Iran, but is still there and has grown, especially in sub Sahara to the point of being one of the largest terrorist groups still active. Thanks Don.
Trump vs. Obama plan: *https://theconversation.com/who-really-defeated-the-islamic-state-obama-or-trump-148066* What I didn’t cover was how Trump loosened the rules of engagement meaning more risk to civilians. Obama’s were rigorous, perhaps too much so, but he played time versus lives. As in he would take more time and loose less American as well as civilian lives. Trump did not increase the risk to Americans, but took out civilians as noted in one of the sources above. It did expedite the conclusion of ISIS in Syria. But it was Obama’s plan, much if not most of the deaths and land recapture were on Obama’s watch, and more civilians died under the Trump strategy. No opinions, just facts and statistics.
Saying I am full of shit without proving it is probably not going to end well. I think the facts prove it so. I hope that this clarifies and you will correct your misstatement.
Actually Trump did care about paying off others.
1) In the case of Stormy Daniels, he told Mike Cohen, his personal lawyer, to wait until after he was elected to pay her off. He told Cohen if he is elected, then not to pay her off. He cared!
2) He appears to have received a foreign campaign contribution of $10M from the leader of Egypt in 2016 to help with expenses of his campaign – because his campaign was broke. Immediately after his election he changed our policy towards Egypt and their leader was the first one invited to the White House. This story is just starting to break on the news now within the last 2 weeks. Here, watch this thirteen minute youtube at *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=innrMx46sqw* and learn!!!
It’s not “America’s nose”, it’s America’s owner’s nose.
Ernestine,
Until you can cite references and actual articles, all of this is nothing more than a bunch of “Bangli-BS!!! Its not worth my time.