I entirely understand this, but from any great power's POV they don't want a stronger milliary/cultural power sitting right up next to their main population cores.
Even if NATO never attacks Russia, their mere presence so close to Russian cities and people will mold Russian politics and society for many generations.
Well, that's the story of western Europe from the Late Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century. Most of the world's greatest powers of the era, all stuck next to each other on a cramped continent. You know how it ended, and how they no longer are the world's greatest powers today.
'Cause there was never a need to go to war. It was invited.
The russian attempts to reannex Ukraine
started in 2003, just FYI.
When you say there never was a need to go to war, you think like a 21st century person. But the poo tin thinks like a 19th century person. This is what actual imperialism looks like.
Oh, and what could have happened had the Russians not interfered in Ukraine, ie, genocide of Russians
That never happened, that was never going to happen, and that you haven't realized yet that it was merely the typical russian accusation in a mirror is honestly confounding.
Anyway she abolished quotas in 2018.
And when they were reestablished, no matter how temporary, she defended them by calling those opposed to them traitors.
Maybe she shouldn't have done that?
Students called for the elimination of this quota, but Prime Minister Hasina refused to meet their demands, citing ongoing court proceedings. Her comments labeling those opposing the job quotas as 'Razakars,' collaborators with the Pakistani army during the 1971 War of Independence, provoked thousands of students to leave their dormitories at Dhaka University and protest.
I'm sure it's the CIA who hypnotized her into saying that stuff...
Experts also attribute the current unrest in Bangladesh to stagnant job growth in the private sector, making public sector jobs, with their regular wage hikes and privileges, highly attractive.
The quotas sparked anger among students grappling with high youth unemployment, as nearly 32 million young people are out of work or education in a population of 170 million.
She was so popular before, certainly people cannot have been fed up with her and her fifth consecutive term as a consequence of massive unemployment in a poor country.
The once rapidly growing economy, fueled by the booming garments sector, has now stagnated. Inflation hovers around 10% per annum, and dollar reserves are shrinking.
Yeah, leaders who get reelected while the economy is growing certainly cannot suddenly become very unpopular when the economy goes stagnant and a large number of unemployed young men suddenly get told that no, they're never going to get a well-paid job because they're the sons of traitor scums anyway.
I remember you going on and on about anti-incumbency, but apparently we need the CIA now.
The 'Students Against Discrimination' group, which led last month's job quota protests, is now leading new demonstrations. After the Supreme Court scrapped most quotas on July 21, protesters returned demanding a public apology from Hasina, the restoration of internet connections, reopening campuses, and releasing those arrested.
Hasina was so againt quotas that she did none of those things.
People shouldn't underestimate the power of a critical mass of angry young men who feel like they have nothing to lose anymore as things stand. The so-called Arab Spring was started by the suicide of
a street seller.
Quota system was abolished by Sheikh Hasina. Now when Sheikh Hasina is no more the PM why there is violence against the minorities in Bangladesh? What does that have to do with fake student protest?
People shouldn't underestimate the power of a critical mass of angry young men who feel like they are winning now and can do whatever the *censored* they want.
And fake student protest? Are you saying the protests were fake, or the students, or both? Man, that was a lot of crisis actors to ship from Langley...
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