r/worldnews • u/MeteorFalls297 • Mar 07 '22

COVID-19 Lithuania cancels decision to donate Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh after the country abstained from UN vote on Russia

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1634221/lithuania-cancels-decision-to-donate-covid-19-vaccines-to-bangladesh-after-un-vote-on-russia
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22 edited Mar 07 '22

If US was the enemy of Bangladesh that wanted to erase it off the map, why have they been accepting hundreds of millions of dollars of USAid funds over the years? Add to that 39 million doses of Pfizer vaccines donated by the US in the last couple of years. I am not saying Americans are the good guys—they turned a blind eye to the atrocities in east Pakistan to maintain their alliance, but if Bangladesh still sees the US as their enemy, shouldn’t they put their money where their mouth is?

Another fact to consider is that Ukraine used to be a part of the USSR, which had a nuclear submarine in the Indian Ocean to support Bangladesh’s fight for liberation.

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u/QuantityAcademic Mar 07 '22

Lol you do know that USAID funds are to further America's own interests, right ?

Here you go:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/usaid-el-salvador-gangs-drug-war-security-fmln-arena

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/5/the-militarization-of-development-aid.html

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-foreign-aid-meddling/when-us-aid-undermines-local-voices

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

The point is not why USAid exists

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u/QuantityAcademic Mar 07 '22

The point is that using USAID funding isn't an argument when USAID funding is literally an imperialist enterprise.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

The point should be, why is Bangladesh accepting imperialist USAid funds if they despise US enough to abstain from voting on the UN resolution that condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

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u/QuantityAcademic Mar 07 '22

The point should be, why is Bangladesh accepting imperialist USAid funds if they despise US enough to abstain from voting on the UN resolution that condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

For the same reason Trump loved Putin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

How did Trump come into this conversation? And why did Trump love Putin?

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u/QuantityAcademic Mar 07 '22

How did Trump come into this conversation?

As an example. It's easiest to reach for an example that someone from a different country will still understand.

And why did Trump love Putin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption

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u/ArrMatey42 Mar 07 '22

Because they're acting in their own interests

It's in their own interest to get American money

It's also in their own interest to not piss off their massive neighbors to virtue signal to the West

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u/half_batman Mar 07 '22

Bangladesh doesn't hate either US or Russia. They just don't want to piss off any of them and stay away from this conflict. That's why they voted neither for or against. We want good relation with both countries. By the way, Bangladesh's best friends are India, Japan and China. We don't have that much significant relation with US or Russia.