Years of toxic politics and political repression will make finding an acceptable civilian govt challenging.
A dramatic flight out of the country to escape mobs of angry people, tired of your autocratic ways, closing in on your home. Refuge in a friendly country that has deep influence in your own.
Thereupon, Mr Marcos and his family were whisked to the safety of Clark Air Base, and then on to Guam, before finally reaching Hawaii, where he lived out his life in exile. But as with the case of Sri Lanka in 2022, when then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was chased out of his country, the departure of a hugely unpopular leader is just one chapter of a national crisis that continues to unfold. The pent-up fury that ejected these leaders has not been fully spent. Looming ahead are arguably even bigger, more intractable challenges domestically. Neighbours are drawn in as well because of geopolitical calculations.
But handing over power to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party would have brought massive reprisals against the Awami League loyalists, particularly its student wing that has been blamed for a lot of the violence against student agitators. Broad unrest in South Asia would be destabilising for the wider Asian region at a time when Western Asia is in deep ferment, and seemingly poised for more violence.Neighbourhood watch
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