Global Events & Politics Überthread
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sturg33
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I've asked a few times... And of course the seals haven't answered... They would rather run away from a question than simply admit trump was right.
But for demonstration purposes...
With the benefit of hindsight, do you think Trump was right when he warned Germany about how dependent they were on Russia?
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I've asked a few times... And of course the seals haven't answered... They would rather run away from a question than simply admit trump was right.
But for demonstration purposes...
With the benefit of hindsight, do you think Trump was right when he warned Germany about how dependent they were on Russia?
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
it's a multitude of things...from the WaPo
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down on July 13, Parliament’s speaker announced late Saturday after a day that saw tens of thousands of protesters, stricken by crippling inflation, storming the seats of power. Some took over the presidential office and residence, jumping into its luxurious swimming pool, and piling onto the presidential bed while others set the prime minister’s home on fire.
The president’s departure, assuming it happens, would likely disrupt a family dynasty that controlled the country for two decades and ultimately helped drive South Asia’s wealthiest nation to economic collapse and finally to uprising, uniting diverse groups in a country with a bloody history of ethnic conflict.
While underlying domestic troubles caused most of Sri Lanka’s woes, they were made worse by a convergence of the same problems afflicting the rest of the world. The coronavirus pandemic decimated Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, a key source of foreign currency. Global spikes in food and energy prices caused by the war in Ukraine exacerbated the crisis, which a uniquely corrupt and entrenched regime made worse.
Nirvikar Singh, an economics professor and South Asia expert at the University of California at Santa Cruz, told The Post last month the Sri Lankan government has been “astonishingly irresponsible and incompetent” at managing the country’s economic policy since Gotabaya Rajapaksa took office in 2019.
Rajapaksa’s departure, after months of sustained protests, would mark a bitter end to the family’s long iron grip. Until recently, six members of the clan held powerful positions in the government with Gotabaya as president and his older brother Mahinda as prime minister.
In the past, the brothers have bounced back into power from electoral losses. But the scenes from Saturday attest to a hardened public sentiment against the family.
“We are desperate,” said Himantha Wickremerathne, a 34-year-old lawyer who joined the protests. “People from all walks of life have united with one intention — to demand that the corrupt president who clearly does not have a mandate, step down.”
Yasas Ratnayake, another protester, described it as a “historic moment” for the country. “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” he said.
Sri Lanka economy got worse week by week over the past few months, as fuel has nearly run out and the inflation rate on food has shot up to 80 percent. The country has defaulted on its foreign debt repayment and is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package, though it has been struggling in the negotiations. Wickremesinghe told Parliament recently that the country is “bankrupt.”
“We are now participating in the negotiations as a bankrupt country. Therefore, we have to face a more difficult and complicated situation than previous negotiations,” Wickremesinghe said.
Keep listening and voting for people that support the 'Rules Based Post War Liberal International Order' and this will happen all over the place.
Give up the desire to be involved in all matters in the world and we can reset back to where there is more global peace and prosperity.
And finally, recognize that the Liberal World Order has made massive foreign policy blunders and quadrupling down on those will not make the situation any better.
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Nah, you are dumb.
Prove with facts and figures how their "radical green agenda" did this. Not with tweets and shares from Newsmax ilk. As they have no facts just "someone mentioned going green" and rooting for their demise.
This radical agenda involves changes not to fully take place until 2050 and according to anything I saw online didn't even become an idea until last year. I found they planned to have a running Nuclear Plant by 2030, that seems to have nothing developed yet 12 years after it's announcement.
It's much more likely that a country who's incredibly dependent on fossil fuels and coal would have a severe crunch when the price for those skyrockets and they don't have a means of protecting themselves through generation.
What is your ideal solution for this country?
Sri Lanka started requiring all foods grown in Sri Lanka to be "organic"--meaning no man-made/man-synthesized fertilizers. Predictably, crop yields plummeted--down through the floor to the basement, and food inflation skyrocketed.
Fertilizer ban decimates Sri Lankan crops as government popularity ebbs
‘It will be hard to find a farmer left’: Sri Lanka reels from rash fertilizer ban.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/com...-crops-government-popularity-ebbs-2022-03-03/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...president-rajapaksa-farmers-harvests-collapse
Yes, the green movement has contributed to it. The lack of tourists due to Covid has too. Notice the articles like to blame lack of training but the fact is that going organic suddenly was a bad idea.
Fertilizer ban decimates Sri Lankan crops as government popularity ebbs
‘It will be hard to find a farmer left’: Sri Lanka reels from rash fertilizer ban.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/com...-crops-government-popularity-ebbs-2022-03-03/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...president-rajapaksa-farmers-harvests-collapse
Yes, the green movement has contributed to it. The lack of tourists due to Covid has too. Notice the articles like to blame lack of training but the fact is that going organic suddenly was a bad idea.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Conservatism is somewhat dynamic, just like most ideologies. It's always been too broad of a label to fit me. I do think of myself as a cultural or social conservative, with that label meaning one is anti abortion, anti drug, pro traditional family, pro gun rights, pro (I still can't believe this even has to be said) biological sex. But I'm also a fan of a lot that the Scandinavians do economically, and that certainly doesn't fit with traditional conservatism. I always question the intelligence of those who seem to buy an entire party line.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
We still have a grocery bill coming our way for the increase in cost for petroleum based fertilizer, and for diesel used in farm equipment, and for diesel used in food transportation, and for the supply of grain that should have come from Ukraine and has either been trampled in the field or can't make it out of the Black Sea. I buy a little extra on each grocery order to soften that blow that is absolutely coming.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Correct, but the ban was pulled last November.
https://indianexpress.com/article/e...-fall-in-rice-output-and-the-economy-7865051/
"But as earnings from tourism (from $3,606.9 million in 2019 to $506.9 million in 2021) and workers’ remittances ($6,717.2 million to $5,491.5 million) plummeted, the reserves, too, started depleting. They fell to $4,055.16 million in end-March 2021, $2,704.19 million in end-September and $1,588.37 million by end-November 2021. The latest end-February 2022 data from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s website shows the total official forex reserves at $2,311.25 million, which suffices for just over 1.3 months of imports.
It’s quite possible that the decision to ban imports of chemical agricultural inputs may have been as much a response to depleting reserves as the ruling regime’s commitment to organic agriculture. Fertiliser imports alone were valued at $258.94 million in 2020. Given the rising international prices, the import bill in the normal course would have gone up to $300-400 million in 2021. Banning/restricting imports may have been viewed as a means for conserving scarce foreign exchange."
It's a muddy situation, that seems to ultimately come back to corruption and poor planning.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/12/sri-lanka-protests-crisis-rajapaksa-prime-minister/
"In 2019, newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa cut taxes, leaving the government with insufficient revenue when the pandemic began. The hit to tourism did further damage: The tourism industry’s contribution to GDP fell from 5.6 percent in 2018 to 0.8 percent in 2020. But the government still spent heavily, resulting in a currency depreciation. A 2021 ban on chemical fertilizer reduced agricultural yields, contributing to rising food costs."