And despite knowing this India has its full support behind BAL. Instead of respecting the BD's peoples choice and working with the democratic government, India's firm stance as regional power behind the entity that stripped the peoples of Bangladesh of their most fundamental right of free and fair election has created a huge problem. But anyway, this is not the the thread to discuss it.
Countries have various interests. Autocracy is secondary or tertiary concern if a concern at all (since the non-autocrat, pluralist principles apply to your own country, not others, the constitution applies to your nationstate, not others).
Take the US cultivated approach to PRC in the 2nd half of cold war and post cold war era....especially given the greater strength of principled institutions the US has crafted and set in within its country compared to India where these have faced serious fits and starts, pressures, attritions and reversals relative to their course......and how these obviously contrast to the PRC ones (especially in sustained praxis, back then and now) yet proving no impediment or obstacle for the US to bridge in its interests as it sees and learns from as it chooses to.
India's interests have always aligned with the BAL (another thing that differed intensely between more autocrat Indira Gandhi and the
internally pluralist-principled USA at the critical juncture for the Bangladeshi people)...as the other options BD have thrown up since are way worse to India.
How BD works upon addressing this is for BD to do....and also from learning from any consequences those bring up. Its a large entity, 2xturkiye or 2xiran population, so theres obviously a large enough presence of good, tough, morally sound people in it (with a job to do if they set their minds and purpose to it), like anywhere else in world.....so I personally have gotten desensitized to the victimhood narrative that has surfaced at times. I dont like excessive victimhood narratives in general, theres are really bad ones that have taken shape in India too....it intersects with cowardliness, laziness and incompetence of people with privilege and idle time and often sufficiently loose morals.
Egyptian friends of mine (all 3 of them) are pro-Sisi for a reason too, they absolutely DESPISE the "muslim brotherhood"...as simply they subvert the core principles altogether while feigning democratic ideals using an extreme identitarian populist ruse again harnessing victimhood, other conspiracies and much else.
If the military autocrat is what is required to hold more of the principles together so an actual democracy can form later (within the scope for what democracy is for), so be it. Society needs reform in interim till it understands this collectively. That is their summary. These are principled secular nationalist folks in the end....its why I am friends with them in first place.
BD has much of this going on as well. Lot of Bangladeshi friends I trust have described it in various ways over time.
