Impact Of Bangladesh Joining Saudi-led Maritime Alliance | What Bangladesh Joining the Saudi-led Maritime Alliance Means

Foreign policy decisions are announced through terms such as alliances, maritime security, freedom of navigation and regional stability. Ordinary Bangladeshis experience them through petrol prices, electricity bills, transport fares, food inflation, factory orders, overseas employment and remittances.

That is why I am narrowing Bangladesh’s membership of the Saudi-led Multinational Maritime Defence Alliance to one question: what does it realistically mean for the people of Bangladesh?

Most Bangladeshis are occupied with survival and have…