After a US-backed coup ousted Bangladesh's former leader Sheikh Hasina, the new government is stirring tensions with India by falsely blaming it for recent floods, possibly as a cover for more sinister plans. These tensions could be used to justify hosting anti-Indian separatist groups and even giving the US a military base in the country. The strategy appears to involve exploiting old water disputes to create a regional security crisis, with India as the scapegoat, all while playing dangerous geopolitical games that could destabilize the region.

It serves as the cover for once again hosting anti-Indian separatists, which could in turn provoke the implied threats from India that the post-coup authorities initially hoped to generate via mob violence against the Hindu minority and thus create the pretext for giving a base to the US.   

An advisor to the interim Bangladeshi government that took power after early August’s US-backed regime change against former Prime Mi...