What is India’s strategy on Afghanistan? Am sure we realise the HUGE implications of what a Taliban driven by Rawalpindi calling the shots in Afghanistan means for us. As it is, with two hostile neighbours our situation is BAD.
Are we just silent spectators as the car crash happens? We are a a big country, neither small nor helpless, proud of our autonomy of foreign policy. We are not a small western country playing follow the leader. No, we are India, proud and independent. And yet..
We cannot withdraw into a helpless huddle. Our consulates have closed (will we ever reopen them? My hunch is perhaps, never).All that we did in Afghanistan for 20 years is in jeopardy. Wish we had publicly expressed our deep reservations and opposition to the US withdrawal.
Plus been more energetic about building a strategy of opposition to what we are seeing as a sickening supplication to the Taliban. But we climbed on the bus - a bus without wheels. How will history judge us? And Pakistan has the last laugh.
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