Russia lost Ukraine for gaining Cremia... Absolute nonsense... Russia Gained a Strategically important peninsula and now owns the Naval base there...
India too will gain two strategicallly important Natural harbours on the head of the Indian ocean...And with this India will virtually control the bay of bengal.
With crimea firmly in russian fold Ukraine can no longer antagonize russia.
the same principles apply in srilanka also. With Eelam under indian rule, sinhalese majority souther srilanka can never antagonize India.
because the weak and distant chines navy is never going to save it from indian forces if india is provoked by sinhalese majority southern srilanka.
Indian power wil only grow with favorable equations between US-India and Russia-India. So there is nothing china can do about it.
by the way the sinhalese army's war crimes are fully exposed in the west. SO indian move will be compared with Indian intervention inbangladesh which gave birth to a fee nation out of pakistani's stiffling influence.
When china could not come to the rescue of pakistan in bangladesh it is never going to risk fighting india for srilanka.
As the saying goes in those days that chinese will fight india to the last pakistani soldiers. So srilankan dreams of chinese alliance to commit genocide against tamils in lanka is worthless.
but we need some leadership with spine and longterm indian strategic interests at the helm in delhi.
Sinhalese never will treat the lankan tamils as their brethern and they lose nothing by loosing them
but to do that we need a political leadership in inida with balls,