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0:04 uh okay so this is going to be a news breakdown uh and sort of a recap uh of some of the more high-profile stories that have been happening uh or that are going on right now first Bangladesh uh which proceeded pretty much exactly as I uh sort of feared that it would proceed uh in the uh the video that I did or that was I think an excerpt from a live stream that we did about the situation in Bangladesh it sort of uh unfolded the way uh I anticipated unfortunately uh as you know I think it was my suspicion that the student protests uh had been infiltrated uh by Western intelligence and that they were being manipulated uh by Western
0:50 intelligence um in order to accomplish re uh regime change in Bangladesh uh and I think I talked about it at the time uh the aim being to basically unplug Bangladesh uh from China and from bricks and the uh alternative funding and investment um uh sources that are provided that were being provided to Bangladesh via China and Via bricks uh the idea to basically undermine uh the potentiality of Bangladesh joining bricks which they had uh applied for or they were in the process of of applying for with the help of Brazil uh and so to me that that that appears to be exactly what has happened
1:35 in Bangladesh uh now let me clarify uh I don't believe that the protests actually caused uh the resignation of shik Hina uh and I don't think that her departure from the country was caused by the protests it provided a pretext uh for that happening uh to make it appear that her removal was the result of popular will but let's be honest the student protests were not powerful enough and were not widespread enough and they didn't last long enough uh to actually be able to achieve that uh certainly not in that short a period of time because it's only been a couple of weeks now uh in my opinion her departure was undoubtedly engineered uh and facilitated by more powerful actors uh more powerful actors
2:23 inside Bangladesh uh and working in concert uh with the Americans I mean the US literally welcomed uh her resignation and her departure from the country which kind of lets you know precisely how they wanted things to go in Bangladesh which is precisely the way things did go in Bangladesh uh the student protest started out uh in my opinion as a legitimate Cry For Justice uh a cry against uh an unfair uh employment policy uh and they had every right to to uh to protest that policy but as I said in my uh initial clip about that once you got a concession on that policy you should have uh and and and normally would have uh uh
3:09 ended the protests because you got what you asked for and when it when it continues beyond that point when it continues beyond the point of what you are initially protesting uh that looks like instigation that looks like there's there are there are um agent provocators uh who are who are actually using the initial uh grievance as just a pretext uh for uh creating a momentum for regime change uh or as I say creating a momentum for um creating uh the the a believable convincing pretext for regime change but as I was talking about in that clip I think that the that the uh protest movement uh ended up being hijacked uh
3:55 because I think it was legitimate from the beginning I I believe it was legitimate from the beginning I think it was hijacked uh by the very forces of Oppression uh that we are fighting against now as I said in my initial comments on the situation in Bangladesh uh the brutal tactics of the police uh the violence of the police the murders that they committed against protesters uh undoubtedly contributed to the degradation of the of the situation uh and the further inflaming uh of the the passions of the protesters but I would I would just say this that any country in the global South uh is going to react with uh enormous suspicion particularly if that country doesn't have uh um uh particularly if
4:43 that country doesn't have a good relationship uh with the United States uh any any country that doesn't have a good relationship with the United States any government in the global South that doesn't have a particularly good relationship with the United States they will react very suspiciously to any protest mve in their country with the uh suspicion that this protest movement is actually part of a regime change operation being conducted against them by the United States so they will predictably respond uh with an iron fist because they will believe uh and often rightly so uh that this protest movement is actually uh an externally um engineered uh effort to unseat them and
5:28 and to tole their government government that is that is external interference into the Affairs of their country so they will respond uh quite viciously that's not to uh excuse it but it's just to explain that this is a predictable response for any country that doesn't have particularly good relations with the us that they will respond uh with a great deal of Suspicion to any protest movement and uh on the basis of that suspicion uh meaning on the basis of what they think that protest movement is actually uh about uh they will respond violently and brutally as I think has proven to be the case and it will become even more clear later on I'm afraid uh the the that suspicion would have been correct in the case of Bangladesh because in my opinion there is uh a more Sinister Force at play here
6:16 and it's a force that deliberately fueled the Flames of unrest in Bangladesh uh to achieve their own purposes and this force of course is the Western imperialist machine they used uh social media in Bangladesh to spread lies to spread misinformation and to manipulate the young people to manipulate the protesters uh and to incite them into calling for the toppling of the government they exploited the legitimate Grievances and and this is again what I talked about in in my first comments on this uh they exploited the uh the legitimate grievances of the students uh and use the students as Pawns in their game the game of divide and conquer and this is not unique this isn't unique
7:01 whatsoever uh it's a pattern that we've seen again and again and again I mean when you've seen a dozen people fall down a flight of stairs they may not all fall the same way but when you see someone start slipping on those stairs you know how it's going to go you know how it's going to end you know where they're going to end up uh everybody may fall a little bit differently but it's the same set of stairs it's the same trajectory and it's the same the same destination I mean Bangladesh it has like what 170 million people and they have a a very important strategic relationship ship with China a strategic relationship with India a strategic relationship with Russia China is Bangladesh's main partner investing billions in the Belton Road initiative and Bangladesh has been building uh strong ties with India and with Russia and was wanting to join bricks as I
7:46 mentioned uh this is obviously a threat to Western imperialism to uh the Western oriented ocfc so what's the the result sheina resigns the army takes over they establish an interim government uh the uh the interim government is going to be comprised of handpicked individuals uh probably with ties to Western Powers uh they'll crack down on descent they'll crack down on protest uh using the pretext of uh maintaining order to silence any opposition uh the student protesters may have gotten them into power but once they're in power they they're not going to have very much tolerance for the
8:31 student protesters we can look at you can go back as far as you want you can go back to 19 what 1953 when the CIA overthrew the government of madik in uh Iran uh that led to an interim government that cracked down on dissent they cracked down on political opposition the uh the national front and so on uh same in Chile in 1973 uh when the CIA backed to coup uh which which led to an interim government that led to crackdowns on trade unions on student organizations uh and leftwing parties and so forth this is just as I say this is the pattern when you become familiar with the pattern you can recognize it and once the the once the uh pattern starts being implemented you know what
9:17 the next steps are going to be you know uh where that's going to end up just like watching someone fall down the stairs so what I would expect is um they'll Implement economic shock therapy on Bangladesh privatizing state owned Enterprises uh opening up the economy to Western uh corporations just like in Poland in the 1990s uh when the IMF and the World Bank impos shock therapy uh leading to mass privatization deregulation trade liberalization and so forth which benefited Western corporations uh and local Elites and just like even in Russia a lot of people don't don't remember this because you think of Russia uh in 2024 you don't remember what it was like in 1992 uh the IMF imposed shock therapy on Russia leading to mass privatization deregulation trade liberalization and so
10:02 forth which benefited Western corporations and local uh oligarchs and then I suppose at a certain point uh you you will have elections in Bangladesh those elections will be rigged to ensure that Western back candidates win and this rigged election process will be monitored and validated by Western organizations who will assure you uh that you have a vibrant democracy and this again something that happens repeatedly this is why you kind of already know what's going to happen because we've seen the story play out many many times the new government whether it's under uh what's his name Muhammad yunas or or or some some other Western uh puppet uh the government will pursue aggressive privatization deregulation trade liberalization benefiting Western corporations and
10:48 local Elites uh at the expense of the majority of the population they will align Bangladesh's foreign policy with Western interests uh including supporting us Le Wars uh sanctions and interventions uh just like in Ghana in 1983 when the IMF and the World Bank imposed structural adjustment reforms uh leading to mass privatization deregulation and trade liberalization which benefited Western corporations and local Elites just like in Argentina in the 1990s uh when the IMF and the World Bank impos structural adjustment programs uh leading to mass privatization deregulation deregulation and trade liberalization you get the point they will crack down on civil liberties using the pretext of National Security to suppress freedom of speech uh freedom of assembly and Association and so on and obviously China uh will be
11:35 marginalized as much as they can uh they'll marginalize China as much as they can and you'll probably be offered Bangladesh will probably be offered uh new IMF and World bank loans which you will immediately accept even though you already owe over12 billion uh to the IMF and the World Bank uh and your your your your new government will agree to the loans and agree to the conditions on the loans and uh Bangladesh can forget about any aspirations of achieving economic sovereignty or political Independence that's what the future that's what you achieved uh by these protests and by the uh toppling of sheina the United States is engaged in a concerted effort to regain its sphere of influence globally uh particularly in region in regions where the brics Nations uh are gaining traction this strategy involves a
12:22 combination of diplomatic economic and Military measures uh and political uh manipulation political infiltration uh political coercion uh political interference to sway countries to the uh towards the US orbit and prevent them from falling under the influence of uh bricks we're seeing this all over the world in Venezuela uh the US has been actively seeking to oust maduro's government uh imposing economic sanctions and providing uh support to the opposition first it was Juan guo uh now it's Gonzalez uh we saw it of course in Pakistan everyone is aware of what happened in Pakistan uh the US had been pressuring uh Pakistan to distance itself from China uh and to uh distance himself from Russia Iman Khan didn't do
13:09 that they also wanted them they also wanted uh Pakistan to succumb to IMF control and impose uh neoliberal reforms and Imran Khan refused to do that uh and he was removed as we know then you can look in Georgia you can look at mova same in Kazakhstan in South Africa I've talked about it many times uh the United unit States back the Democratic Alliance to infiltrate thec government uh with radical neoliberals in Bolivia uh the US supported the Ting of AO Morales uh in Ecuador the US uh supported the uh protest against uh Moreno's government uh Nicaragua is another example the US supported protest against uh Daniel Ortega's government uh and so on and so on the the the situation in uh
13:56 nicaragu was also um originally because of uh pension reforms so it was a legitimate grievance based on a policy which then morphed into calls for the toppling of the government it just goes on and on not to mention the out of spring this is all quite transparent to me and the reasons for it are obvious the US wants to collect as many pieces on the board as they can before uh they completely lose any relevance uh on the global stage and before they lose any ability uh to influence the transition of the global economy to the global south bottom line is America is not going to go down without a fight so they're trying to collect as many pieces on the board as they can before they lose the game completely so I'm terribly sorry to have to tell bangladeshis who may be celebrating
14:42 right now that uh what you're celebrating today you are soon going to regret your celebrations will soon turn to regret uh and you will end up actually missing the days that you lived before this happened you'll miss the way Bangladesh was before this happened because the the powers and the players that are operating behind the scenes are worse uh than the government that you just toppled and uh they will do much worse than what was done by the government that just got toppled so the real struggle in Bangladesh is actually just beginning now uh but again if the pattern plays out uh as it has played out everywhere else um
15:29 the opposition is not likely to even understand uh what the real struggle is uh and even if they do understand what the real struggle is I would expect that the uh repression in Bangladesh is going to be so severe and so comprehensive that the uh National trauma uh will likely be so bad uh that most people will simply succumb now you know everybody told me because they always tell me this uh they told me that I don't understand Bangladesh uh and that it's a unique situation uh that Bangladesh is unique that Sheik hena's government was uniquely corrupt and U the protests were unique in their nature and so forth uh well the fact of the matter is that
16:15 nothing has H nothing that has happened so far is even remotely unique in any way whatsoever so now would be the opportunity uh for Bangladesh to actually assert their uniqueness and that would mean maturing their opposition maturing their political IC understanding maturing their resistance uh against what is going to be a much uh more challenging uh form of Oppression uh than what they have faced thus far and I sincerely pray that they will be able to do that
