Sri Lanka - News and Discussion- Post PM appointment crisis

[Cyrano]

^^^ Structurally SL economy is very very weak. Thats why they are tempted to sell themselves to Cheen and in the process create risks for India. This is an interesting and very creative approach to help SL without risking Indian money again and again for bail outs. Sort of teaching them how to fish.

[chetak]

^^^ Structurally SL economy is very very weak. Thats why they are tempted to sell themselves to Cheen and in the process create risks for India. This is an interesting and very creative approach to help SL without risking Indian money again and again for bail outs. Sort of teaching them how to fish.

Cyrano ji,


Truly and sadly, we have no sense of shatrubodh

historically, the sinhala have always been against us, their hatred is open and visceral

the padre paltans on the island are the very same ones that funded, aided, nurtured and sheltered the ltte and are ideological kin to the poisonous TN padres. They are all are backed, even today, by the same corrosive forces hell bent on conversions in India and demographic changes have already occurred in the NE and punjab, both critical and crucial border assets with hugely adverse security implications

has anyone ever wondered why norway and finland have such a strong presence in nepal, especially after nepal "became or was made secular" Our own mafia aunty along with that commie creep and head dirtbag yechh-ury were deeply involved in this naxalite project.

these and other nordic players were also very big operators in the ltte fiasco, where they played a very duplicitous part that effectively prolonged the war and increased the causalities many fold because they were pushing a separatist agenda, and they have been, for the past several years pressing India hard to allow them to play a "peace keeping role" in the NE.

Their agenda remains the same, and "parliamentary" delegations from these countries frequently make a bee line to these states to "study the situation" often with alleged "staff members" from very shady NGOs accompanying them.

The cheen have them in a hammerlock from which they have no escape for the next 99 years, if at all.

But these sinhala clowns will be speaking fluent mandarin well before that, if they haven't already started .....

Soon, another cheeni sub or warship will dock at a SL port and they will plead helplessness but continue to grab whatever they can from India.

All those jihadi clowns have to do is to keep smiling and say what a great guy the PM is

The beedis also had this very same methodology down pat but they went and buggered it all up, just like the maldives did and these beedis are also trying to go back to their default stage of freeloading on India

The cheeni do what they want to these very countries and India provides aid and succor, free food, and fuel and many other gifts to the neighbours who know that India will not hold a grudge.

In one country they see only opportunities for freeloading and the other, they are all $hit scared of

The sinhala knew of the anti India implications of this cheeni deal when they signed it, and yet they did, just like maldives, nepal, and the beedis also did

neighbour first policy ....... whose neighbour ....... what policy ....

[Mukesh.Kumar]

Here's a contrarian view from Sri Lanka which I found circulating on SM.

Sri Lanka: From Banner Blunders to National Blunders

Reading it feels like an hysterical reaction to India-SL cooperation on defense, Tincomalee and connecting power grids. However, given the number of shares and the people it is becoming popular with it is something we need to keep an eye on.

Time to spread the largesse cross the country. If BD taught us one thing we need to speak to parties on all sides.

[Cyrano]

The article looks like its written by a Lankan A Roy, albeit with less flowery verbiage

Its simply the food chain of global geopolitics. Smaller species that do not evolve quickly to defend themselves or achieve symbiosis with bigger species will perish. One can't wish away neighbours or mothers in law. Have to live with, one way or the other.

If Lankans haven't registered that India as a next door neighbour has more stake in long term well being of SL than China which is an ocean away, and that their most benign big brother is Modi, then they will make more mistakes. And they are complaining India won't let them make those mistakes again and again.

[chetak]

The article looks like its written by a Lankan A Roy, albeit with less flowery verbiage

Its simply the food chain of global geopolitics. Smaller species that do not evolve quickly to defend themselves or achieve symbiosis with bigger species will perish. One can't wish away neighbours or mothers in law. Have to live with, one way or the other.

If Lankans haven't registered that India as a next door neighbour has more stake in long term well being of SL than China which is an ocean away, and that their most benign big brother is Modi, then they will make more mistakes. And they are complaining India won't let them make those mistakes again and again.

Cyrano ji,

If their deceitful and treacherous actions and moves against India are going to be overlooked and forgiven so very easily, they will continue on to bigger perfidious outrages, knowing that there will be no blowback. Some of it is being done in coordination with the cheen, like when some lankan sob official accused adani of bribery in the solar plant project


one has never understood this hallucinatory and delusional line: One can't wish away neighbours. This is the poison that the commies have filled the school textbooks with and our leaders are mouthing it as though it is some just invented geopolitical panacea

One has never heard a european or amriki or russki or whatever politico use this dumb line ever and yet in India and among India's neighbours, it is a constant refrain, repeated ad nauseam.

the first politico who used this phrase in India is/was a neurotic, paranoid, and pretentious idiot. You can close the borders, regulate entry strictly, and stop this nonsense of "vasudhaiva kutumbakam", stop smuggling and human trafficking, and finally, if they don't listen, use the pressure of trade and less of this oil pipelines and power grids when Indians themselves are in a position where they pay high prices for almost everything that we "export" so generously to these ingrates

Every one of our neighbours has knowingly and willingly accommodated the cheen, in full knowledge of the fact that their actions are hurting us, and yet, all of them have wilfully done it. Are we to put up with such fleas and leeches just because: One can't wish away neighbours

It's geopolitical shorthand for "everything will continue as before and there is bugger all that you can do about it"

If they are insisting and doing their thing, what's stopping us from doing our thing, i.e. putting India, first always and every time.

India needs to assess, understand, assimilate, and then de risk the problem by looking at the situation on the ground and finding solutions that do not harm Indian interests, neighbours and their problems be damned, we will get to them when we can and protect ourselves first, before "helping" them out

Why are we subsiding oil, gas, and electricity for them, while Indian pay high prices for the same

Understand just what has the Modi govt done with the pakis today, ..... it has simply "wished them away" and their corrupt ministers, their uncivil "civil" society, and their abduls and ayesheyas have clearly understood the fact that all trade has stopped because they themselves (im the dim) stopped it.

Do we need to go through the very same prithviraj chauhan's repeated self defeating moves on the battle field, citing some idealized concept of "honor" and holding on to it despite the dangers to his kingdom, failing to see the reality of his enemy, and ultimately, he failed his people, the very people that he had sworn to protect because he did not do what was needed to be done, completely failed to assess the looming risk before him, and they finally got him like they will get us one day unless we take steps to circle our wagons and put India's supreme national interests first, not accord needless supremacy to the interest of any and every phata abdool neighbour. These so called neighbours have never reciprocated our misplaced generosity and that to has been covered by another paki born Indian PM and his idiotic ideas of "non reciprocity" in dealing with all our jihadi neighbours

But now, the pakis and their perfidious acts against the Hindus and India has had a huge blowback on their economy, society and badly affected their quality of life and reduced them to beggars.

Yes indeed, we "wished" them away, and why don't we do the same with the other recalcitrant clowns like the beedis if it serves our purpose

even during the floods, the GoI made a very cursory offer to help and predictably, the pakis refused it and we went on our way, thereafter completely ignoring them. Today their awam is still full of hatred but these same hate filled creatures are all asking "why doesn't India help us"

it was the same haseena who proclaimed loudly from the roof tops that there was not a single beedi in India, even as a flood of these vermin were pouring across the borders on a daily basis, with hatred in their hearts and revenge on their minds

This nonsense about people to people contacts is going to kill us. There are no more you tube videos about pretty beedi girls at some beedi university or the other, hating on India and the Indians and cursing the Hindus, but as soon as the beedi crises pass, they will surface again. Are these vermin the kind of "people to people" that you want to maintain contact with, do they deserve the people to people nonsense that we seem so hell bent on forcing upon them, and what is our benefit from all this, we don't even have their nominal goodwill, forget friendship and other such bunkum.

Every paki born Indian politico who has risen to some power and status in India has damaged India to the fullest extent that they could before they demitted office and accorded the pakis maximum benefit, even if such benefit went against Indian interests.

Thankfully, such stray and mangy street dogs don't exist anymore

[Cyrano]

"one can't wish away neighbours ' was intended as a realisation for our smaller neighbours. Bharat is the gorilla of IOR and we have wished away Pakistan with disastrous consequences for them. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my post.

[chetak]

"one can't wish away neighbours ' was intended as a realisation for our smaller neighbours. Bharat is the gorilla of IOR and we have wished away Pakistan with disastrous consequences for them. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my post.

Sorry Cyrano ji.


The post wasn't aimed at you.


It was meant for our own powers that be, past and present


we are insane onlee, and: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.

[A_Gupta]

Reality is that no sovereign and independent country wants to or should rely entirely on another country. Otherwise, e.g., the rude awakening that happened with global supply chains during COVID, or among American allies during Trump are a constant threat.

What India's neighbors have to realize is that playing off China against India is a losing strategy for them. (The game Jinnah played successfully during one of those pre-independence Round Table Conferences. He'd bargain with the non-Muslim contingent, get some concession, then ask the British, can you top this? Then take the British concession and go back and say, what we agreed is not good enough, the Brits are giving me this. And so on.) The neighbors should develop healthy multi-lateral relationships, just like India is doing - India's relationship with Russia is not aimed against the US or European Union and India's relationship with the US or European Union is not aimed against Russia. India is not playing off one against the other trying to seek advantage, as far as I am aware. That is what Bangladesh, Maldives are trying to do, play one against the other; and perhaps Sri Lanka too. The stupidity of that strategy India should make clear to them by firm action; backing off if they show signs of not being morons.

[Cyrano]

Do you folks see now why America, despite its lip service for "democracy and freedom" has propped up dictators everywhere? Like someone said "We know he is a ********, but he is OUR ******** !" No elections, no change of policy. Get their kids and kin to US univs with grants, and get them into jobs after. Supply small arms, create embarrassing spy dossiers on everyone for handy blackmail. If the dictator starts getting ideas engineer a palace/barracks/color revolution coup. Use Drug money, slush funds, CIA dark money, disguised USAID & EFD etc to drench everyone with some money, under CIA & SD watch. Thats what it takes to be a hegemon, its a full-time, 24x7 job for thousands of operatives.

Bharat has to re-read Kautilya's works and has ways to go before becoming even an IOR hegemon. Until then we will get stabbed/milked/stabbed /milked like our neighbours are doing.