How much rerouting will happen? I think you have no idea of the geography of BD.
So far as permission of flying over, many times Pakistan has blocked Indian flights flying over Pakistan and many times India too have denied Pakistan flight over Indian territory. I have not seen any consequences because of that.
I would once again say that while you guys evaluate the effect of any action, you just evaluate the loss to enemy and not the loss to yourself. Pakistan has that bad habit which has resulted into huge financial loss to Pakistan without anyway hurting India financially.
I don't think Bangladesh (even the current interim govt.) are worried about chest-puffery and schwanz-measuring with India. That is not our priority now and we don't have time for it.
Bangladesh' defense policy is purely reactive WRT India. We have ten divisions to deploy and deal with any costly Indian adventurism and India will think long and hard before attempting anything stupid, despite threats by Indian leaders.
India counts little in Bangladeshi world view anymore (with Hasina's exit), with Bangladesh' "Look-East" policy (even decades before India started this policy) counting hopefully for
- becoming a part of ASEAN (with observer status at first)
- becoming an important economic partner with China and to
- becoming a post-Asian-Tiger manufacturing powerhouse
Economic uplift for our people is our priority, not buying more useless arms to spar with neighbors which has no utility.
Indians obsess more about Bangladesh than vice versa - because Bangladesh is now outside of Indian sphere of influence, culturally, intellectually and economically which is apparently a big loss to India and Indians, going by all the screaming in Godi Media.
Bangladeshis are simply more focused on job growth and economy (always have been), we can do without all the loud Indian saber-rattling BS and chest-puffery which is more make-believe than real.
I refer to Kishore Mahbubani (Singaporean Scholar) who posits that Western dominance, which has lasted for about 200 years, is a historical aberration and is coming to an end in Asia.
Similarly, it can be now extrapolated that the unwelcome Indian dominance in Bangladesh, which lasted since 1971 because of some corrupt Bangladeshi leaders, is also considered a historical aberration now and thankfully is part of the past.
Bangladesh has chosen a different path for its economic future and the best Indians can do is leave us alone.
Brothers
@Saif,
@PakistanProud,
@Mainerik,
@Ghazi52 and
@Jiangnan - your thoughts.