Commentary
Poor governmental decisions in many countries are leading to mass starvation–and public retaliation against their governments.
Sri Lanka’s current dire problems—in which popular street action has thrown out, first, a sitting prime minister, then his replacement, and then the sitting president—seem likely to be a precursor to similar actions elsewhere in the world.
And Sri Lanka’s problems are nowhere near being resolved as its population starves.
Moreover, eradicating the immediate symptoms of popular discontent does not guarantee that underlying structural problems have been eliminated. A significant and growing number of countries are presently facing mass discontent over economic and security issues, and some are close to the Sri Lankan situation….