Right of Reply Apropos: Positioning Sri Lanka in an emerging Multipolar World Order

Daily Mirror of Thursday  December 11 2025

By Air Chief Marshal Gagan Bulathsinghala

USA is and was the criminal culprit in the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Palastine, and yet are we to stand neutral? The famous definition of Non Alignment certainly is known too well to the civilised world for quite some time. The multipolar world is emerging and the Western Block is facing a general crisis. After 500 years,  power and resources are gathering in the East in which India has a pivotal role. Our neutralism must not directly or indirectly prop up failing systems and a dwindling economy and allow our inevitable future suicide. 

We have suffered the worst calamity due to global warming though we are not the least to be blamed,  and Trump says it is “bullshit”. If you ask me what I stand for,  it is a humanitarian civilisation which will not come about by being at equidistance between barbarism and humanism. 

I respect your learned intellect, not your proposal.

V Nanayakkara