a single aircraft carrier can wipe out our entire military power in just a day.
it shouldn’t take a genius to realise that we are militarily helpless against imperial forces. their standing armies, firepower, supplies, and technology all outclass ours by several orders of magnitude. we barely even produce our own food or energy let alone weapons, ammunitions, and military technology (we import those too).
i know our thakurufaanu-bros love thumping on their chests and rambling about gaumiyyaathu, frothing at the mouth about some “boa kandaaliyas boa nulanbaanan” or whatever, but anyone with a sober common sense will realise that both india and china are capable of flattening our entire lifelines in a single day. we also have no generational memories of war experience or practice. to us, it still exists on a screen and in our imaginations.
we also depend on them for many things: imports, supplies, trade routes, healthcare, development, and so on. that is a reality.
however, that doesn’t mean we have to let them all interfere with our politics. we have an incredibly powerful measure of ensuring that: radical neutrality.
Radical neutrality: neither India or China
this is our invincible shield during peacetime and wartime: we leverage their imperial powers against each other.
let me explain. our diplomatic position should be as follows:
- we will remain economically and militarily neutral to all geopolitical forces
- we will not allow any military or macroeconomic presence on our soil
- we will not allow foreign military operations or passage in our waters
- if we ever need defences or military aid (for instance, against coup militants), we will solicit equal aid from all imperial powers, to be operated under a multilateral board between (for example) maldives, india, and china
- no permanent presences
- no favours
- no involvement in external affairs
- we will report any military activity, passage, presence, etc. by any imperial force (china, india, russia, america, etc.) to a public body like the united nations, who must then, by agreement, announce these activities openly to the international community
- any military presence (soldiers, bases, stationed vessels, patrols, and even contracts between future maldivian governments) must be considered diplomatic violations. this must be amended into the constitution
- in times of war, we will remain non-participants. if there are any attempts to trespass and use our geographic position to a wartime advantage, we will work against it in every way to frustrate it, for instance, by informing their opponents or cutting off supplies. we will do the same for the other side, even if one side has already violated this. we will continue until they all decide it’s not worth it.
this must be drafted into our constitution and ratified as an inviolable law of our country to protect our sovereignty.
But why will this work?
simple: capital expenditure.
i want you to understand this: both for china and india, military operations in the maldives is a colossal, royal waste of their time and resources. they only want each other’s presences out. they’re only worried about each other’s power over the region.
seriously, think about it. we can use capitalism against itself.
india already has lakshadweep — similar geographical structure to us — as a strategic marine point with 36 islands and an exclusive economic zone of 400 thousand square kilometers. it is also much closer to their mainland coastline than the maldives. that alone is reason enough for maldives to be a waste of time and money.
there’s also sri lanka, their military ally to the south-east of their mainland coastline. they routinely carry out joint military exercises.
the only reason they give a damn at all is the fear of china prepping us up as a regional pawn against them.
and then, what about china? even for them, this is a royal waste of time and money.
the entirety of the south china sea falls under their military control. none of our islands bypass india’s coastal defences along the lakshadweep-lanka line. in every possible sense, inland military excursions are better for china against india in such a hypothetical scenario: it’s less costly, there’s more freedom of movement, and it’s far less resource intensive.
do you also realise the sheer costs of offshore military operations and presence?
it would cost china a fortune to wastefully set up and maintain military operations in the maldives. it would serve no purpose. even if it was to weaken or attack india’s coastal defences, they can do that with far less expenses, resources, time, and manpower by just using aircraft carriers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
of course both of these imperial powers would use any means available — and that’s why we actively frustrate the efforts of both sides and make ourselves a total and absolute god-damn liability. in such a scenario, why on earth would either of them want to waste any time fighting maldivian resistance fighters on top of fighting each other?
even if we can’t win, we can sure as hell make them waste a whole lot of money, resources, supplies, and manpower to our last dying breaths enough to make them say “these stupid islands just aren’t worth it” and sod off.
hence “radical” neutrality.
the only reason we aren’t implementing such a simple diplomatic measure is because all our greedy, stupid, evil politicians (whether it’s mdp, pnf, pnc, democrats, independents, whatever) want to leverage imperial powers for personal gain and personal power. None of them want to put the interests of our people above their party-politics dogshit. that is why we’re torn between india and china when we could be perfectly left alone.
all of our politicians and their right-wing parties are treasonous traitors.
