State department is bu!!sh!tting. We have been waiting for 4 C130s to be purchased from their surpluses from a long time. They kept stalling it. Plus why should we go to a country that uses their political clout stop other countries from using the purchased weapons. They also denied turkey, an important Nato ally, to purchase the patriot missiles. The only relented when turkey went ahead to purchase s400 from russia.
Bangladesh should realise that they are only saying this because they want to remove customers of Russian and Chinese weapons. They will dangle chewed up carrots like the coastguard cutters until they get a better negotiation position from these two countries. IMO, bangladesh should only buy from US only when bangladesh feels its necessary, not because usa wants us to buy from them.