Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "What is CHINA’s military interest in SRI LANKA? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@davidford3115 No, it reeks of hegemony. So if Sri Lanka is India's backyard, India's front yard must be China and the USA's front yard must be Canada. The terminology doesn't make sense and there is a reason this language is only used by Indian and American media.
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@davidford3115 While other countries use terminology like "India's neighbourhood", there are proponents in other parts of the world who use "India's backyard", indicating some type of ownership.
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@davidford3115 Now you're talking about perspective but I don't see it because a backyard belongs to someone, which is why the terminology is a red flag and why the Asian region is wary of both Chinese and American aggression.
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@harmonyshorts You don't say "India's backyard". You say "in proximity to India and the Maldives". People always forget the Maldives even though that country is close to Sri Lanka too and let's face it, it's linguistically and ethnically very close to Sri Lanka. Mind you, I highly doubt any of these people know where India is either...
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@davidford3115 A whole lot of words were used just to say nothing...
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@davidford3115 It most definitely reeks of hegemony but you refuse to see it and of course it can apply to anyone. I'm just talking about India in this case but because I mentioned the US you suddenly said "anti-West". I live in a Western country, I was born in a Western country. You want to call me "anti-West" for calling out the power struggle that China and the US are playing out here in the Asia-Pacific?
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@davidford3115 You support the idea of describing an independent nation like Sri Lanka "India's backyard", indicating a sign of ownership but will become hysterical if somebody were to refer to "Mexico's backyard" as the US.
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@davidford3115 You know you using a whole of words just to say nothing doesn't help your point, right? You haven't actually given anything of substance to explain your reasoning and haven't refuted anything I have said. All I see is a man using all this jargon to present himself as smarter, more sophisticated and intelligent when the truth is there is actually nothing upstairs but a dictionary and thesaurus spewing out random words to inflate his broken ego.
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@davidford3115 India's backyard? Sri Lanka is not India's backyard. This "India's backyard", "China's backyard" etc. is why the Asia-Pacific is so wary of these power-hungry countries gaining control of the region.
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@davidford3115 I don't expect someone from the US to understand the issue of such overbearing terminology. For the US, the whole world is their playground which is why they're trying to force countries in the Asia-Pacific to pick the side of the US and refuse to just accept our view that we don't want to be caught up in their China war.
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@davidford3115 Three posts after one another is not me throwing a temper tantrum, it's because for some reason I can't post long replies using the device I post comments on. So you can stop assuming.
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@davidford3115 You haven't made a single point. You're using a lot of jargon just to say nothing and calling me "Anti-Western" and "Anglophobic" and all these things. It's typical of people today, call someone "(something)phobic" and call it a day and think they've made a point. Embarrassing but we all know you'd be very upset if someone were to call the USA "Mexico's backyard" and how convenient of you to ignore this when I brought it up days ago. People who believe in national supremacy and hegemony will never understand, they only want power and control. Small countries and less powerful countries belong to them in their eyes.
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@davidford3115 Actually I have. I told you that such terminology is indicative of hegemony as it indicates ownership. Sri Lanka does not belong to India, so how on earth is it "India's backyard"? You never responded to that. Instead you're using random jargon and ranting about Marxism, Anglophobia and all this random things because you don't know what to actually say. You think you're making a point by constructing this "holier than thou" mentality but all I see is arrogance and toxicity.
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@davidford3115 There is only one person here who needs to get over themselves and it's not me. Due to their mentality of hegemony and national supremacy, these people do not understand how narrow their thoughts are. He speaks about anti-colonialism as if that's a bad thing. Nobody in the Asia-Pacific wants to be a colony and nobody in this region wants to be pushed around by China or the US. You are just deeply upset that I (and many others in this part of the world) are pushing back against the views you support. Accept it. We don't like to use such terminology "[insert country's name]'s backyard]" because it indicates ownership. So if you're going to speak on what happens to countries in this part of the world, look beyond your American perspective.
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@davidford3115 Notice how you only described Arizona, Texas, and California as "Mexico's backyard"? No, the whole of the USA is "Mexico's backyard" according to your logic. Accept it or get over it.
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@davidford3115 You don't know what to say so you said that instead. You will never understand the perspective of nations that do not aim to enforce hegemony over other countries.
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@davidford3115 So when you can't accept other people's views, you resort to name calling? Typical. I mean that's all you've been doing this whole time. I don't need to touch grass. You just need to understand the fact that most people do not believe in this terminology of "[insert country name]'s backyard" unlike some people in certain countries. We don't believe independent nations belong to other countries so we don't use this "[insert country name]'s backyard", a backyard belongs to a house. So why on earth would we say "[insert country name]'s backyard"????? Why is this so hard for you to understand?????
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@davidford3115 This has nothing to do with isolationism... 🤦‍♂ Virtue signalling? I see more mainstream American jargon is being. Please, just give us a break...
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@davidford3115 He won't get off that high horse... imagine how tired we are
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The country is no longer socialist.
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Why would Sri Lanka want to join India? People have got to stop thinking that joining a large country is how you solve problems... it's not.
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@DonesdeMotivacion Most Sri Lankans are Buddhists, most Sri Lankans speak Sinhalese, Sri Lankans are ethnically Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Burgher/Eurasian, Vedda and even Chinese. Sri Lankan culture is a mix of South Indian, Malay and indigenous influences.
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@DonesdeMotivacion Most Indians are Hindus. Most Indians speak Hindi (those who speak Tamil in India are a minority group unrelated to the people in India who hold power). Indian culture is not a blend of indigenous Sri Lankan, South Indian and Malay influences, it's a lot more diverse than that. India is very ethnically diverse and is not home to Sinhalese, Moors, Malays, Burghers/Eurasians and Vedda, even the Sri Lankan Tamils have their own distinct culture compared to Indian Tamils. People have got to start learning the difference between different nations instead of assuming they are the same just because they can't tell the difference between the people of those countries.
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@DonesdeMotivacion THEY'RE NOT ALL GENETICALLY THE SAME. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE. This is like me claiming Italians and Greeks are genetically the same. There is only one person here who is ignorant and it's not me. American people have got to stop talking about things they don't understand. Let people in Asia-Pacific figure out what to do, there is no need for someone on the other side of the world to give their unwanted two cents about something they don't understand.
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@DonesdeMotivacion Imagine a Latino person on the other side of the world speaking about an issue that doesn't even concern them and then when someone corrects them, they refuse to acknowledge their errors. American exceptionalism in a nutshell.
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@DonesdeMotivacion People are getting tired of the US because they're sticking their nose into everybody's business and telling people how they must identify and how they should behave. There is a reason why China is now so powerful.
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@samiitb Then India ought to be quiet.
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@pavan923 So you think Sri Lanka belongs to you?
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@pavan923 I'm not from Sri Lanka, I'm not a citizen of that country so you were saying?
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@pavan923 This "holier than thou" mentality that exists among sections of the Indian public is quite amusing to me. India is still a developing nation with extreme wealth inequality and they want to absorb another country into their territory without fixing the poverty that plagues their most populous states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar? Why it's because they believe in Akhand Bharat.
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@BruceWayne-qe7bs Sri Lankan Tamils are not Indians, they are natives of Sri Lanka.
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@BruceWayne-qe7bs You sound just like the CCP, I hope you know that.
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They're a developing country for sure but they became an upper middle income nation in 2019 and had good education and living standards. This is why they were able to control the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, bringing cases down to 0 and are dealing with an aging population due to higher life expectancy and low fertility which is why during the 2010s they began importing foreign migrant workers from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to fill gaps in their vacant job market. In 2019, there was a dossier published to transform the country to high income status by 2030. So they were in a very good position at one point compared to most developing countries. There's a YouTube video about this, if I find it again I'll post the name of it.
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@Gop101 Actually most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions. There are Western media outlets (even The New York Times surprisingly but via a guest writer) that are now reporting on this.
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Australia has donated money to Sri Lanka. Trust me, other Asia-Pacific countries are helping Sri Lanka. We are taking care of our region.
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