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> There's really no reason to believe that they'll do anything other than what is in their own best interests This is true of every country, I don't really see
by parennoob 10y ago
> There's really no reason to believe that they'll do anything other than what is in their own best interests
This is true of every country, I don't really see what the point is here.
For example, one of the presidential candidates for the US is campaigning on the popular platform of getting a neighboring country to pay for a wall between itself and the US by threatening to withhold financial remittances to that country.
- kchoudhu 10y agoA Trump presidency is a hypothetical; India's Interlink project is apparently a reality. Putting that aside, Mexico is probably going to be okay if the wall gets built. Bangladesh will starve when water from the Ganges and/or Brahmaputra is "reduced". The point is that this isn't a question of self-interest causing a small amount of inconvenience to a neighbor -- it's self-interest that could cause grievous, existential harm to a smaller country.
- parennoob 10y ago> India's Interlink project is apparently a reality (I am Indian.) If you think a planned project from the Indian Government with vague assurances of work going to start "in a few days" is a reality, you need to think twice, or possibly several more times. The project will most likely get bogged down among environmental concerns, Government red tape, and pressure from Bangladesh.
- kchoudhu 10y agoHeh. I've been wanting to say something about the actual probability of this project getting started for a while, but I seemed to have already attracted enough opprobrium throughout this thread without also implying that it simply can't happen for, er, logistical reasons.