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‘Sinhala First’ Supremacism & Sovereignty: Gotabayaism In The Global Arena
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Supremacism or Sovereignty? Though ethnoreligious supremacists think the two are intertwined if not twinned, the two cannot go together. It is a choice.
It would puzzle and perturb President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sinhala supremacists that the incoming Biden administration rejects the thematic slogan and policy paradigm of “America First” while asserting that “America is back!” and aspiring to lead the world once again. The explicit critique and rejection of ‘America First’ was commenced by Jake Sullivan, the incoming National Security Advisor and Anthony Blinken, the incoming US Secretary of State. On New Year’s Day 2019 Blinken wrote a piece in in the Washington Post unambiguously entitled ‘America First is only making the world worse. Here’s a better approach’.
the united states, never mind western europe and the united states. they don t have much strategic military power. all they have is a bunch of nuclear weapons, and oil and gas. so putin has isolated them. he s frightened his neighbors. and for the president of the united states to not understand the power of our defense and economic relationships with europe and nato, the european union, is simply preposterous. and the language that he uses to describe this policy or lack of policy. ambassador mcfaul, what are the risks of his going one on one with vladimir putin, especially after we saw that scanndalous, think, only-republican bunch of senators going to moscow and playing up to foreign minister lavrov, not taking any democrats with him, no one from foreign relations, no senior people from the defense committees. appropriators who don t know foreign policy, trumpeting the president s policy of make nice
deployed that kind of warhead. we have warheads can you use any warhead to do an emp attack. we could. we ve got cyberoffensive capabilities, physical sabotage capabilities. mark: do we prepare for these things the way our enemies do? i wish we did. in terms of offensive capabilities? . i wish we did. i don t know whether we do or not. i suspect we don t. the reason i suspect we don t is because we haven t protected ourselves from the enemies offensive capabilities. and if we understood and had put it together and ourselves mastered this new way of warfare and prepared to execute it, i would have to believe we have taken the commonsense precautions to protect ourselves. mark: are committees of congress, the defense committees, the intelligence committees, are they aware of this grave threat you re talking about? they must be, right? they are, they are. mark: do they take it
deployed that kind of warhead. we have warheads can you use any warhead to do an emp attack. we could. we ve got cyberoffensive capabilities, physical sabotage capabilities. mark: do we prepare for these things the way our enemies do? i wish wdid. in ter of offensive capabilities? . i wish we did. i don t know whether we do or not. i suspect we don t. the reason i suspect we don t is because we haven t protected ourselves from the enemies offensive capabilities. and if we understood and had put it together and ourselves mastered this new way of warfare and prepared to execute it, i would have to believe we have taken the commonsense precautions to protect ourselves. mark: are committees of congress, the defense committees, the intelligence committees, are they aware of this grave threat you re talking about? they must be, right? they are, they are. mark: do they take it