{"id":132073,"date":"2023-02-10T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132073"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:04:18","slug":"us-india-demand-military-bases-in-sri-lanka-or-no-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/02\/10\/us-india-demand-military-bases-in-sri-lanka-or-no-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"US & India Demand Military Bases in Sri Lanka \u2013 or No\u00a0Lights!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018Senator Cruz, like you I am and I think the administration is<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2<\/strong> is now as you like to say,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.<\/em><\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Victoria Nuland, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 26, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Now as we see a genuine shift of power from West to East<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and to Asia and then Africa, that shift of power must continue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we see that East Asia along with China<\/strong> is emerging,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Asia together with India and Africa<\/em><\/strong> will also follow<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

towards the latter part of this century. So we must keep this relationship<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

strengthened to ensure we have a bigger voice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two issues, one is the Ukraine situation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

which we are refusing to get involved in<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the other one is the situation that is building up in Taiwan<\/strong>\u2026\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s President meets African Envoys, 03 February 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if uncoiling a bharatanatyam choreographed in Bollywood, protests were performed in the North & East on cue, just as US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland<\/strong> high-heeled down to Sri Lanka from India. Nuland ignored official English and other advisories to exercise \u2018extreme caution\u2019<\/strong> in Sri Lanka. Nuland may have also decided to forego Sri Lanka\u2019s famed guard of honor. Why should a terrorist fear terror when they believe they\u2019re the richest terrorists in town?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Indeed! Travel advisories could name and note, Nuland greased and signaled the foofaraw that flared from March 2022 in Sri Lanka, leading to the July resignation of an elected President. Why indeed is Nuland being dispatched to Sri Lanka for the second time within a year? \u2018Nuland, her boss Anthony Blinken<\/strong>, and his boss Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019, seek to use Sri Lanka to escalate another bloody war for their corporations, while attempting to extricate themselves from their horror in the Baltic (see ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>). The US believes it can reduce Sri Lanka to penury further, in order to firm it up as a stepping stone to wage war on China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Therefore, on cue, a just-off-the-plane Nuland barked out, that China\u2019s financial assurances to Sri Lanka \u2018were insufficient for an IMF bailout\u2019. The world may need no proof now that it\u2019s the US government\u2019s state department on Washington\u2019s C Street that does the final bean-counting. We can now stop wasting our time with the International Monetary Fund\u2019s million-dollar economists on 19th<\/sup> St in Washington\u2019s Foggy Bottom, singing, \u2018Soon! Soon! Soon!<\/em>\u2019 (to the tune of \u2018Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!<\/em>\u2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Meanwhile former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon<\/strong> will land here on February 6 from US-occupied Korea for the 75th<\/sup> Soulbury in\/dependence day commemoration. He will wax & wink on reconciliation, while being unable to unite his own long US-divided country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 However, Ki-moon\u2019s US National Security Agency aide\u00a0Anthony Banbury & his Virginia-based International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)<\/strong>\u00a0have already been busy operating out of Colombo, shaping up \u2018election fraud scenarios\u2019 to divide & detain and divert us as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US & India Demand Military Bases in Sri Lanka \u2013 or No Lights!<\/a><\/blockquote>