Glimpse of the future: Protests, violence put a spotlight on Sri Lanka’s collapsing economy

Debt Collapse ^ | 6/24/22 | Mary Villarreal

[Roman_War_Criminal]

People in Sri Lanka have been rioting over the cost of food and lack of energy resources. The military has responded by gunning down protesters.

This offers a glimpse of the future if Western countries continue their trajectory of inflations, supply chain issues, food shortages and gas price hikes. Once society collapses, people are the ones to starve as the government makes sure its power remains intact and functional to force people to obey their whims.

Troops in Visuvamadu, around 228 miles north of Colombo, fired on civilians on June 18 as their guard point was pelted with stones, said spokesman Nilantha Premaratne. “A group of 20 to 30 people pelted stones and damaged an army truck.”

Police said four civilians and three soldiers were wounded when the army opened fire for the first time to mitigate the unrest linked to the worsening economic crisis. However, as pumps ran out of gas, motorists began to protest and the situation escalated.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

[Carriage Hill]

Gee whiz, that scene sure looks like the Summer Riots/Looting/Burning/Murders of 2020, here, doesn’t it?

[Born in 1950]

People everywhere get hungry overnight.

Once the morality of stealing a loaf of bread to feed a family was a debate.
Now some can load up the and simply not pay.
What is coming will make morals and thefts
look like child’s play. Overnight.

[catnipman]

article doesn’t mention that this all started when their government outlawed use of imported synthetic fertilizer and forced ALL domestic agriculture to use “natural” methods instead, you know to “go green” AND save money ... the resulting crop failures subsequently depleted foreign reserves when they had to be used to import food (instead of fertilizer) ... consequently, no foreign reserves remained to import anything else, including fuel ... Go Green, Kill Your Country ...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

catnipman :" article doesn’t mention that this all started when their government outlawed use of imported synthetic fertilizer and
forced ALL domestic agriculture to use “natural” methods instead, you know to “go green” AND save money
... the resulting crop failures subsequently depleted foreign reserves when they had to be used to import food (instead of fertilizer)
... consequently, no foreign reserves remained to import anything else, including fuel ... Go Green, Kill Your Country ..."

Go Green and commit national suicide !
Even Germany is opening up coal fired generation plants to meet the immediate need,
as well as meet some of the future winter anticipated power shortfall.
Can a similar situation occur here ?

[MtnClimber]

Can a similar situation occur here ?

ABSOLUTELY. Leftists think alike and they always seem to destroy economies.

Don't Cry for Me Argentina.

We are right behind you.

Tightly spiraling around the drain.

[Chickensoup]

Can a similar situation occur here ?

______________

Only if people are stupid enough to obey

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Funny how the article fails to mention that root cause, huh? It’s almost like they want to cover up the radical marxist failures.

[blam]

The Most Valuable Form Of Money Nobody’s Seen…Yet

[Stevenfo]

Isn’t this one of the countries China debt trapped?

[metmom]

It COULD.

WILL it?

Time will tell.

That’s why we’re laying in our winter supply of wood for heat.

[Ellendra]

And why I’m making sure I have the parts to fuel my tractor using charcoal.