With all the focus on the Ukraine, no-one paid any attention when Sri Lanka quietly slipped beneath the ocean and disappeared.

Following an economic collapse and debt default, the fleeing of the president, rampant inflation and food shortages, Sri Lanka sank into the Indian ocean last week. And you can't even blame climate change or Covid or Russia.

The economic crisis exposed multiple structural weaknesses, one of which was the fact that the whole country was held up on bamboo stilts and when these also collapsed it meant the end for the proud country of Tamils and tigers.

While billions have been spent on regime change over the last few decades, Sri Lanka was offered £3.50 in foreign aid to help it get back on its feet.

FNN considers this to be a warning shot as there are many other places that could suffer a similar fate. Remember St Kilda off the Western Isles? Kilda had to be forcibly depopulated in 1930 when it ran out of Puffins after they all emigrated to the Faroe Islands citing a lack of suitable nesting habitats.

A recent effort to establish the Rab C Nesbitt Theme Park on the islands failed after the crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter only raised the cash equivalent of a scots pie, a macaroon bar and a bumper bottle of Irn-Bru.