Apart from that, the westerner will never understand us neither our needs.
Stupid Bush wanted to make India as the regional Murubbi. This kind of approach might work in North America or in Europe but will never work in South Asia specially with Bangladesh.
Are you sure about what you just said? The United States and the European Union do not always have the same views with regards to the world.
I think they understand us just fine. Maybe even more than ourselves. Forget about Bush, nobody will remember him.
India is currently the largest importer of weapons. Attractive market. And with the current state of the Western economies, they'll sell all right. You'll see all kinds of toys the Indians are currently buying. You should visit the Indian sub forum. Many stuff there.
The Bangladesh Air Force (Bangladesh Biman Bahini - BAF), has little combat capability and limited transport resources. The multiplicity of types of aircraft and consequent diversity in sources of spares, plus associated difficulties in training and maintenance have adversely affected operational effectiveness. Taking all these factors into account, it is likely that the BAF would find it difficult to perform in an air defence or tactical support role within an adverse environment.The BAF has been plagued by a lack of funds and vision, as well as subjected to the vagaries of political influence and allegations of corruption in procurement programmes. China continues to be the main source of combat aircraft today, illustrated most recently in 2006-07 with the delivery of a dozen CAC F-7BG fighters and four FT-7BG two-seaters.In 1999, Bangladesh obtained eight MiG-29 'Fulcrum' combat aircraft (including two UB trainers), which were declared operational by mid-2000. Given the economic situation and the cost of Western aircraft, the switch to Moscow as a source of sophisticated combat aircraft appeared inevitable, but the circumstances in which the purchase went ahead were opaque. The initiative was controversial from the beginning, with the eight aircraft, plus spares and related services, costing USD124 million, while annual operating costs were estimated at USD17.42 million. The MiGs were grounded and in July 2002 the government announced that it planned to sell them. However, at least some have been returned to service, in spite of greatly increased operating costs and problems with spares. In February 2009, immediately...
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You say Western countries don't understand us?
Explain this(?):
Muhammad Yunus Awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom
They understand us just fine. Now if we take Bangladesh as a whole, the tricky part is understanding ourselves with respect to the sociopolitical and economic challenges we face. Non of the important issues are being addressed in Bangladesh at the moment. Its the usual point scoring. Everywhere, public universities, military, foreign service, the judiciary, you name it.
With all the energy, time and space spent in all this back biting and point scoring, how do you think we can progress in all fields?
Having being living in Thailand, and seeing the advancement of countries like Indonesia, China, India, Malaysia hell even Vietnam, I can honestly say that Bangladesh is far from benchmarking those economies on nearly all fronts.
The pointless politics in Bangladesh is a waste of time. The Westerners know that. Bangladesh just becomes uninteresting and an unworthy partner in that respect.
Its not like they supported Muhammad Yunus for no reason. They want us to progress. The ones hampering the progress of our country is within our own leadership.
