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>>177586Senator Katie Boyd Britt @SenKatieBritt - Daily reminder that Democrats blocked funding for HOMELAND SECURITY including the Coast Guard, Secret Service, and TSA.
ICE and CBP are still funded and will continue to deport criminal illegal aliens.
https://x.com/SenKatieBritt/status/2030285087149801778Shanaka Anslem Perera @shanaka86 - BREAKING: Sri Lanka just made its most consequential geopolitical decision in a generation. It granted IRINS Bushehr permission to dock at Trincomalee.
Understand what Trincomalee is. It is not a secondary port chosen for discretion. It is one of the finest deep-water natural harbors on earth. The British Empire considered it the most strategically vital naval anchorage in the entire Indian Ocean, second in Asia only to Singapore. During the Second World War, the Japanese bombed Trincomalee in April 1942 in the same raid that destroyed HMS Hermes. It is the port that any power wishing to project naval force across the Bay of Bengal and into the Indian Ocean wants access to. India has been quietly seeking closer strategic arrangements with Trincomalee for years. The United States uses the broader Sri Lankan maritime space as a transit zone. China has made significant infrastructure investments in Colombo Port.
Sri Lanka is now allowing an Iranian Navy vessel to dock there, forty-eight hours after a US submarine sank another Iranian Navy vessel forty kilometers off Galle, in what American officials are calling the first torpedo kill since World War Two.
The conditions attached to the approval are the tell. Passengers are to be evacuated and transferred to Colombo before the vessel proceeds to Trincomalee. The sequencing, crew off the ship, then ship into the harbor, is the signature of a government trying to perform a humanitarian act while minimizing the military profile of what it is hosting. Sri Lanka is attempting to receive the crew without receiving the warship. Whether that distinction survives American, Indian, and Israeli intelligence scrutiny is a separate question.
The approval arrives after what the Sri Lankan Parliament described as an eleven-hour delay that preceded the sinking of IRIS Dena. The political pressure on Colombo to not repeat that outcome is now explicit and documented. Opposition MPs named the delay in Parliament. The Foreign Minister acknowledged the distress call timeline. Sri Lanka could not deny IRINS Bushehr without the denial being read, in Colombo and in Tehran and in every neutral capital watching this war, as a second contribution to the death of Iranian sailors.
This decision will cost Sri Lanka something. Washington will not view the docking of an Iranian Navy vessel at Trincomalee during an active US military campaign against Iran as a neutral humanitarian act. It will be registered as a positioning decision regardless of how Colombo frames it. The question Sri Lanka’s government was weighing overnight was not whether to incur a cost. It was which cost was survivable.
Forty-eight hours ago Sri Lanka was a bystander. Today it is a party.
The Indian Ocean theater has its first neutral-state-turned-participant. It will not be the last.
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