Are we sure what actually caused this? The BBC and other MSM claim that it's because it cut taxes and led to a collapse in government revenue.
The government also banned fertilizers, which led to a precipitous decline in agricultural output, but that was a way to save on foreign currency reserves.
I have also seen claims that this is because it got Chinese loans with heavy strings attached.
My understanding is that while inflation was the original cause of this unrest (because it made gas and other essentials increasingly unaffordable), the situation only started to really spiral out of control when the government tried to force Sri Lanka's agricultural sector to go green.
I'm sure all those other factors, like inflation and Chinese investments with strings the size of the Himalayas attached, didn't help. But the government almost certainly could've weathered that storm for at least a good bit longer if it hadn't gone full retard over organic farming while in the middle of an international food & supply crisis.
I'm encouraged that the Dutch farmers' response to "green" policy is also massive protest, including spraying cowshit onto government buildings. They're as close to an "insurrection" as they're liable to get.
Maybe the Dementia Joe administration will force American farmers to "go green." I wonder what their collective response would be.
Poor economic management. The entire country went organic via legislation, slashing the food output.
Read news articles about it and read between the lines. The tax cuts are being blamed for it because it was the bandaid on the bullet wound. But the chain of events is pretty clear. Oligarch family imposing pie in the sky concepts on an economy leading to food running out and mobs on the streets.
Now, that whole organic farmer thing. Was that because of green woke ideology, or was it because the government wanted to save on foreign reserves which they otherwise would have had to spend on fertilizer?
Are we sure what actually caused this? The BBC and other MSM claim that it's because it cut taxes and led to a collapse in government revenue.
The government also banned fertilizers, which led to a precipitous decline in agricultural output, but that was a way to save on foreign currency reserves.
I have also seen claims that this is because it got Chinese loans with heavy strings attached.
My understanding is that while inflation was the original cause of this unrest (because it made gas and other essentials increasingly unaffordable), the situation only started to really spiral out of control when the government tried to force Sri Lanka's agricultural sector to go green.
The result was said agricultural sector collapsing, Sri Lanka going from a previously self-sufficient (food-wise) country to a net rice importer (and importing rice cost them more than the fertilizers), and its primary export crop - tea - being devastated, while all the outside globalist voices clamoring for Sri Lanka's government to do this promptly shut up, shrugged & walked away once their nationwide ESG scheme crashed & burned.
I'm sure all those other factors, like inflation and Chinese investments with strings the size of the Himalayas attached, didn't help. But the government almost certainly could've weathered that storm for at least a good bit longer if it hadn't gone full retard over organic farming while in the middle of an international food & supply crisis.
Gas and Food price hikes. Check.
Forcing green initiatives on farmers. Check. ESG scheme check.
The west is next.
I'm encouraged that the Dutch farmers' response to "green" policy is also massive protest, including spraying cowshit onto government buildings. They're as close to an "insurrection" as they're liable to get.
Maybe the Dementia Joe administration will force American farmers to "go green." I wonder what their collective response would be.
perhaps we will see fertalizer bombs go off either acidently made or ones made on purpose.
Poor economic management. The entire country went organic via legislation, slashing the food output.
Read news articles about it and read between the lines. The tax cuts are being blamed for it because it was the bandaid on the bullet wound. But the chain of events is pretty clear. Oligarch family imposing pie in the sky concepts on an economy leading to food running out and mobs on the streets.
"Let them eat cake! ...OH NO!!!"
Now, that whole organic farmer thing. Was that because of green woke ideology, or was it because the government wanted to save on foreign reserves which they otherwise would have had to spend on fertilizer?
given Sri Lanka's supposedly high ESG score, I'd guess the former.
I thought it had to do with China.