Money? While millions of Bangladeshi became slaves in other countries including poor African countries, you still dreaming of arming your army.
Do not forget that your sinking land is just a LDC country and number of people living below poverty line is more than the total population of Myanmar.
While you are dreaming of arming your army, millions of your people are living without proper toilets.
Bangladeshi people are the most unwanted people in the continent and that’s why your country is going to be completely surrounded by border fences very soon. Just like the animals in the zoo.
You should be proud of it coz your country will be the only one country in the world the entire land border is fenced.
The only problem with your navy is that your ships are older than their crews. Your navy should be called junkyard of Chinese Navy. Museum worthy navy.
Instead of barking here you should do something for slave workers in your garment industries.
Calm down, no need to go on a semi racist tirade.
Economically Myanmar is insignificant, this is a fact, but you have good armed forces due to military rule and prioritization on weapons procurement.
And first visit Bangladesh before making such statements, Bangladesh is more developed than Myanmar according all human development indices and pointers, you don't need to be a genius to know this.
You have issue with individual users, your problem you solve it, don't insult the entire country.
We both know how not "LDC" Myanmar is, so much so that you don't understand that we are delaying LDC graduation since 2016 to reap the benefits and that you are also an LDC but you are not included similar to how pakistan is not.
Being LDC doesn't mean anything, Pakistan isn't an LDC, are you telling me Pakistan is more developed than Bangladesh ?
We are neck and neck with India in terms of human development, is Myanmar anywhere near India or even pakistan ?
Let's not derail this thread, don't talk smack about Bangladesh and we'll be fine.
There is more to human life than defence, you can't swallow tank shell and goto bed with full belly, Myanmar government doesn't publish accurate unadulterated statistics on many things and at times doesn't publish anything, we all know Myanmar is not Singapore so let's calm down.
Every country has different priorities, you want weapons good for you but don't expect to mock another country and go unchallenged. .
Outside Asia, nobody knows what Burma or Myanmar nor does anyone care, Bangladesh is a massive economy compared to Bangladesh and a growing investment destination. Bangladeshis are everywhere.
Any conflict with a neighbor with a bigger economy, better infrastructure, more manpower and more money is overall a death sentence.
Myanmar does not want war with Bangladesh nor will it be able to sustain a war with Bangladesh, admitting this doesn't make Myanmar armed forces any less strong, you are sometimes not meant to fight with certain opponents.
If Bangladesh decides to go on a shopping spree right now by ignoring it's citizens needs, we can outclass Myanmar multiple times over with by just doubling out military budget to 9 or 10 billion dollars this is just for armed forces, , security forces including 2 million paramilitary (excluding Police) is another 3 billion.
We can infact field a 10 billion dollar budget, without breaking a sweat if we want to with our economy of 350+ billion USD.
There will come a point in time, maybe in 2030s when Myanmar can simply not match Bangladeshi spending any longer.
It's a matter of economics, just check the numbers and do the math, similar to how Indians can buy four times or five times whatever the Pakistanis can.
