mendosa
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It doesn't have to be an official annexation where Sri Lanka becomes another state in our constitution. You can make them behave in a manner that is beneficial to you, that is good enough.After a century+ dose of Dhammadip propaganda, Sri Lankans would find it difficult to be governed from Delhi.
Same with Bangladesh. By being a separate nation, we get to isolate 150 million jihadis from having any political voice in our electoral system and the fate of our country, but by trading with them, we are essentially taking the good parts of the community without letting the entire community flood our polity.
Just like taking the honey from a bee hive. You don't need to take the whole hive inside your house. Keep the bees outside, just take what you want.
If they are a part of your system, you are burdened with how the people organize themselves, how to feed them, how to educate them, how to protect them from natural calamities. If they are outside the system, we only need to care about what they have to offer, but keep the population in a quarantine zone called Bangladesh.
Right now, we get everything from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka that a nation can get from a member state : access for our products to their consumers, access to intelligent people by giving them student visas, access for flow of goods and transit rights for military convoys if the need be (not because they are friendly, but because we are strong enough). We get nothing over and above what we are already getting, if we annex them, apart from an addition to our population. Whatever resources they have can already be siphoned off by cutting lucrative trade deals with their businessmen.
Take the honey without letting the honey bees in.