Sri Lanka Collapse

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China is loving this. How bout some cheap lones sri lanka?? Do you need a new port or bridge?? Promise we won't fuck you with interest and cheeky Jewish contracts
 
A former prime minister gets assassinated, an economic depression greater than the great depression, a war in Europe and now a country about to collapse. What a time to live in.
 
Biggusstickus said:
A former prime minister gets assassinated, an economic depression greater than the great depression, a war in Europe and now a country about to collapse. What a time to live in.
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Calling it a country is a bit of a stretch, corrupt 3rd world shithole is more accurate and those go up in flames all the time.

All that other stuff is legit though; hard times ahead stalker.
 
LUNEKO said:
That's gonna be the question, Sri Lanka is just done for completely what's interesting is who gets to pick the pieces.
Does China just scoop up the rubble and turn it into Little-China or does India assert dominance and doesn't let the Chinese creep any further onto the middle east.
Whoever wins the Sri Lanka civilians loose
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Can't wait for Bugmen vs Pajeets; Streetshitting in Sri Lanka
 
Cross-posting from the other Sri Lanka threads in A&H, courtesy of @3-2-1836, Sri Lanka's president has decided to wave the white flag, and will be resigning. (Archive)

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced he will step down after protesters stormed his official residence and set the prime minister's house on fire.
Neither the PM nor the president were in the buildings at the time.
Hundreds of thousands descended on the capital Colombo, calling for Mr Rajapaksa to resign after months of protests over economic mismanagement.
Mr Rajapaksa will step down on 13 July. PM Wickremesinghe has agreed to resign.
The speaker of parliament said the president decided to step down "to ensure a peaceful handover of power" and called on the public to "respect the law".
The announcement triggered an eruption of celebratory fireworks in the city.

One protester, Fiona Sirmana, who was demonstrating at the president's house, said it was time "to get rid of the president and the prime minister and to have a new era for Sri Lanka".
"I feel very, very sad that they didn't go earlier because had they gone earlier there wouldn't have been any destruction," she told Reuters.
Sri Lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine amid the country's worst economic crisis in 70 years.
It has run out of foreign currency and has had to impose a ban on sales of petrol and diesel for private vehicles, leading to days-long queues for fuel.
Sri Lankan anti government protesters invade the president's office during a protest at Colombo
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Protesters made their way into the house, chanting slogans and waving the national flag
The extraordinary events of Saturday appeared to be the culmination of months of mainly peaceful protests in Sri Lanka.
Huge crowds converged on the official residence of President Rajapaksa, chanting slogans and waving the national flag before breaking through the barricades and entering the property.

Footage online showed people roaming through the house and swimming in the president's pool, while others emptied out a chest of drawers, picked through the president's belongings and used his luxurious bathroom.
The contrast between the luxury of the palace and the months of hardship endured by the country's 22 million people was not lost on the protesters.
"When the whole country is under such strain people have come here to release that pressure. When you see the luxuries in this house it is obvious that they don't have time to work for the country," Chanuka Jayasuriya told Reuters.
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Ousted in a day of fury​

By Ethirajan Anbarasan, BBC News, Colombo
These are some extraordinary times for Sri Lanka.
After a day of fury and violence, the two senior leaders of the country have agreed to step down.

The news triggered jubilation at the main protest site in Colombo. Firecrackers were set off in many parts of the city.
I am at the Galle Face protest site - many protesters have started returning home, thousands are still present. Some have been singing and playing musical instruments, celebrating.
What a turnaround of events. A few days ago a photo of President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe smiling in parliament was widely shared on social media.
Many vented their anger, saying the two men appeared to be happy while millions were struggling to eat three meals a day. But a week is a long time in politics.
Read more here.
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Mr Rajapaksa vacated his official residence on Friday as a safety precaution ahead of the planned protests, two defence ministry sources said, according to Reuters.
Although it is Mr Rajapaksa's official residence, he usually sleeps at a separate house nearby.
The BBC has been unable to confirm the president's whereabouts. A source close to the PM said he was in a "safe place", and some reports suggest he is being protected by the country's navy.
Protesters pose for selfies
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Many protesters posed for selfies after entering the palace
Protesters also set fire to the prime minister's private home in an affluent neighbourhood of Colombo.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said earlier that he was willing to resign to ensure the safety of civilians and to make way for an all-party government, but soon after his announcement videos started circulating of his house up in flames.
The prime minister lives with his family in the private home and uses his official residence for official business only.
Whether or not the president's and the prime minister's planned resignations will be enough to appease the protesters is not yet clear.
"Just two resignations alone will not satisfy the demands, the demand of a system change, but at least this is a start if the president and the prime minister depart," said Bhavani Fonseka, a prominent human rights lawyer in Colombo.
"There has to be a peaceful transition of power which is yet to be seen," she warned.
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Getwhatyou said:
China is loving this. How bout some cheap lones sri lanka?? Do you need a new port or bridge?? Promise we won't fuck you with interest and cheeky Jewish contracts
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It's just pissing in the ocean. Sri Lanka is going to require way more then some loans to fix at this point. Modern societies are hideously complex, and once a cascade failure starts throwing money after the problem won't fix it. It's a failed State at this point. They just don't know it yet.
 
"Rajapaksa" means coercive ruler in that part of the world. Guess they weren't pay attention when they elected that person...
 
ZazietheBeast said:
Ancient China definitely had the right idea when it came to governance. Do a good job, you get to keep your job. Fail, you lose your head.
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Incidentally, Imperial China under the Ming Dynasty also crushed the Ceylonese during a brief military adventure to rescue some diplomats the Ceylonese had taken hostage, as well as general anti-piracy operations.
 
Seeing the footage of those protestors breaking into their house and jump straight into the swimming pool was both funny and interesting to say the least. I’ve seen coups before in other nations that go into bloody war violence, but this is an example of a real insurrection that does not need to care for political correctness to get the job done.

Sri Lanka is no America.
 
/pol has an interesting theory about the collapse

"I finally got to the bottom of the Sri Lanka crisis.
This is where it started - their government took Greta seriously, implemented policies that halved agricultural production, and it spiraled from there.
Sri Lanka has collapsed.
The results of socialism + MMT + eco fanaticism + ESG approved policies."

 
They stopped using fertilizer on their fields. They didn’t do it gradually, they did it all at once and tanked their agricultural output.
 
Amphotericin B said:
They stopped using fertilizer on their fields. They didn’t do it gradually, they did it all at once and tanked their agricultural output.
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Also their tourism industry, the primary source of foreign currency, was utterly demolished by the terrorist attacks on churches followed by the coof.
 
albert the programmer said:
Seeing the footage of those protestors breaking into their house and jump straight into the swimming pool was both funny and interesting to say the least. I’ve seen coups before in other nations that go into bloody war violence, but this is an example of a real insurrection that does not need to care for political correctness to get the job done.

Sri Lanka is no America.
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I never really bothered sperging too hard on the lore but Far Cry 4 is my jam and I assume close enough to Sri Lanka. The trick is to get the mini-helicopter and the little handled grenade-launcher sidearm. You now have air superiority. If you play your cards right you can kill off both sides of the familial factions, leave the CIANigger to die, murk the despot's capos, and murder the fuck out of the dictator after making peace and him showing you where to lay your mother's ashes to rest. (His corpse has an item needed for an achievement, also he dresses like a faggot, he deserves it)
 
Sri Lanka (the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon) is a very interesting place.

It is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, has incredible diversity of terrain, flora, fauna and also cultures to which the LTTE insurgency was actually more of an exception proving the role that they lived in relative harmony at least to many places, although their Muslims eventually became militant enough to do the Easter Church attack and smaller ones, that is a relatively late development. Like so many places it got fucked up by the British and then fucked up by a vengeful majority ethnoreligious group that had been denied a place of priority during the colonial period. This featured things like radically militant Buddhist monks beating the shit out of people with sticks and that was at the very beginning, it only got worse. India intervened several times including with the IPKF in the late 80s which lead to the assassination of Rajiv Ghandi which buck broke their spirit to keep on intervening.

The Tamils of Tamil Eelam had a host of the legitimate complaints but were also the people that invented not just the suicide bomber but the female suicide bomber. They'd perfected the tactic before the Palestinians even picked it up, their leader Prabakharan was a vicious and brilliant individual with a cult of personality and it took great brutality to put him and his insurgency down. All of the unpleasantness never really made much news in the US and his great fundraising source was in the Tamil diaspora in Canada, much as the IRA's was among Irish-Americans.

Even before the end of the war, Eastern and Western countries have been involved in neo-colonial "free market" ventures and Chinese power is on the ascent. Pajeet and Chang may very well start making noises at each other if shit continues to get real and Chinese "influence" is a far enough cry from being a Chinese vassal state which is also something that is considerably less acceptable to powers that be in the USA than it is in some Black African country that most Americans are equally incapable of finding on a map.
 
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