Author: Md. Saiful Islam Masum

“Bangladesh must navigate between normative commitments, economic pragmatism and geopolitical hedging. An injudicious alignment could jeopardize trade privileges or labor market access; excessive reticence could invite criticism of moral equivocation. For middle powers, survival often lies in calibrated ambiguity—yet ambiguity itself demands dexterity.” Geography, in an age of weaponised interdependence, is a deceptive comfort. A missile exchange in the Persian Gulf may appear cartographic-ally distant from Bangladesh, yet the shockwaves of such a conflagration travel along invisible arteries of trade, energy flows and remittance corridors, striking with unforgiving force at the heart of our macroeconomic architecture. The renewed hostilities in…

In classical logic and philosophy, there exists a well-established concept known as the ad hominiem fallacy. It describes a flawed argumentative tactic in which, rather than addressing the substance of a claim, one seeks to invalidate it by attacking the character, identity, background, or personal circumstances of the individual advancing it. The argument itself remains untouched; the person becomes the target. It is a diversionary maneuver—designed not to enlighten discourse, but to derail it. An ad hominem fallacy, therefore, is not merely a rhetorical misstep; it is an intellectual evasion. When criticism becomes irrelevant to the issue at hand and…