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Re:The U.S. Navy Almost Fought the Soviets Over Bangladesh by bahularora on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:04PM (#12122994)
If anyone is interested here are few videos of premiers of both country discussing 1971 situation:

Indian PM Indra Gandhi https://youtu.be/_MATAqeiL-4

Pakistani General and President Y Khan https://youtu.be/v903MselZ3o

I always felt odd that US supported a military government over a democratic one.

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Re:The U.S. Navy Almost Fought the Soviets Over Bangladesh by chimeracoder on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @06:54PM (#12125569)
> I always felt odd that US supported a military government over a democratic one

The US supports authoritarianism over democracy all the time. Democracy, in the eyes of US foreign policy rhetoric, is only legitimate if the democratically elected government is friendly towards the US and aligned with US interests.

The US has no problems with toppling a democratically elected government in order to install a dictator or puppet leader. It's happened many times, and I imagine it will happen again.

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