A legitimate, full-blown communist has been chosen to be the leader of a nation with a population of 22 million people. This is one more sign that our world is precariously dangling by the silky thread of a spider web above complete and utter chaos and ruin. And if you don’t think something awful like this can happen here, in the United States, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Marxist Aura Kumara Dissanayake is now the president of Sri Lanka, taking office on Monday. Dissanayake, who is 55, beat President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who along with his party, is accused of leading the nation into an economic crisis. Well, my Sri Lankan friends, you haven’t even begun to see an economic crisis yet. Trust me, in a few years, you’ll be lamenting in sackcloth and ashes ever having placed a communist in a position of absolute power and leadership.
Dissanayake is a member of the People’s Liberation Front, a Marxist organization that has launched two violent armed insurrections, one in the 1970s, the other a decade later. What could possibly go wrong with having these folks in charge?
“We have deeply understood that we are going to get a challenging country,” Dissanayake remarked as he was being sworn in. “We don’t believe that a government, a single party or an individual would be able to resolve this deep crisis.
via Fox News:
Chinese president Xi Jinping congratulated Dissanayake on his victory, saying on Monday that China looks forward to working together “to jointly carry forward our traditional friendship.” The U.S. and India previously congratulated Dissanayake. Located to the south of India, many voters in the Buddhist majority country of 22 million people — approximately the same size as West Virginia — say they felt disgruntled with the country’s political culture as the nation climbs slowly out of its economic crisis.
Reuters reports that inflation rose as high as 70% after the 2022 collapse due to a severe shortage of dollars. Inflation has since cooled, however, and the nation’s GDP is expected to grow “for the first time in three years.” Dissanayake’s inauguration is the first standard transfer of power in Sri Lanka since 2022, when rioters forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign and flee the country. Wickremesinghe then replaced him in the fallout.
The first major challenge the communist leader faces is to fulfill his campaign promise to provide relief for austerity measures that were put in place by the previous president under a relief agreement that was struck with the International Monetary Fund, the country’s largest creditor.
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