Crowning Ranil Wickremesinghe as the best politician

Ranil Wickremesinghe

As per what is happening around political arena, many are trying to survive in the game of politics, if you ask me to crown the best politician, without a doubt, I would crown Ranil Wickremesinghe as the best politician in the Sri Lankan history. (Stood-up many defeats, survived when UNP broke apart, well managed the internal party conflicts, stood firm as party leader, broke apart MR's iron regime, and now he has become the Prime Minister for the third  time)

In Sri Lanka's politics, this is not an easy task. It's only my opinion!

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The man who stopped the 3rd world war

50 years ago, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, second-in-command Vasilli Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused to agree with his Captain's order to launch nuclear torpedoes against US warships and setting off what might well have been a terminal superpower nuclear war.

The US had been dropping depth charges near the submarine in an attempt to force it to surface, unaware it was carrying nuclear arms. The Soviet officers, who had lost radio contact with Moscow, concluded that World War 3 had begun, and 2 of the officers agreed to 'blast the warships out of the water'. Arkhipov refused to agree - unanimous consent of 3 officers was required - and thanks to him, the world was saved from being scarred badly.

His story is finally being told - the BBC is airing a documentary on it.

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