India will give refuge to the religious minorities fleeing Afghanistan, notably to Hindus and Sikhs.
India will also give refuge to those Afghans, who have shown friendship and cooperation to India in building Afghanistan, so that they survive to again rebuild Afghanistan.
Taliban's reign comes. It is apparently unavoidable. But another day will again come, when Afghans will return to the land. That day will require the knowledge, skills and services of patriotic Afghans in exile. For that day, they need to survive.
Afghans need to survive to tell the story of Pakistani treachery and Pakistani support to terror and rape.
I think, Pakistan may not really have thought this through.
Many of the fighters who have gone to Afghanistan now, were earlier Pakistan's cannon-fodder. They're now in Afghanistan, and thus aren't available to Pakistan any further.
There is no incentive for them to come and fight for Pakistan against India in Kashmir.
Pakistan may not have the same level of control on political messaging in various seminaries in Afghanistan, where they can spread the same anti-India hate as happened in Pakistan.
Effectively, Taliban have been freed from Pakistani oversight and control.
Sure, in Afghanistan, Taliban will do mayhem as per their ideology, but politically Taliban is now free.
2. Neither Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, USA nor Turkey will be trying to dislodge it. There's no opposition game left anymore.
3. Afghans have been betrayed, ANA units have crossed over to Taliban.
4. It is of no use to try to deny the Taliban recognition from our side. They ARE in power.
5. Our recognition or lack of it, doesn't make them weaker. They have access to Pak, Iran, China, Russia, etc, who can meet all their diplomatic and investment requirements.
6. If India had a credible game in Afghanistan, then it would have been different. Then we may have supported other groups. But we don't. We lack land access. We can't really help anybody there.
Ideologically speaking, till now West has looked upon India as a country with an imposed Western democracy, a democracy that requires oversight by the West, to make sure India lives up to the liberal democratic ideals as perceived by the West.
PM Modi said, "Our democracy is not a western institution. It's a human institution. India's history is filled with examples of democratic institutions. We find mention of 81 democracies in ancient India."
This is a monumental change in thinking. Sri Lanka cannot really get into an open confrontation with India, so they will have to accept it. Also it may give a much bigger voice to Tamils in Sri Lanka, who can be open about supporting the party, knowing India has their back.
What is the difference between American Left and American Liberals?
American Left dislike Hindus because they have been brainwashed to believe that Hindus who love their country are in fact some sort of "Hindu fascists", told the lie that India oppresses minorities
American Left do not know Indians history of what the Hindus have had to go through - exploitation, slavery, cultural genocide, untold massacres, robbery by both Islamist invaders and rulers, then by the British, and then by British proxies - the Congress (INC) und Nehru-Gandhis.
American Left do not know all that what Modi has done to help the poor in India - free bank accounts, direct cash transfer support, free cooking gas, electricity connections, toilets, housing, health insurance, pension schemes for small traders and farmers, etc.
It's hard for Dems to convince people that a ticket with a Prez candidate, who has nothing appealing about him - dementia, corruption, CCP-apologism, credit-card lobbyism, 47 years of public non-service; and a VP on the ticket, who got just 844 votes in primary can win 78 m votes
In 2008, Obama won the biggest mandate till 2020 - 69.5 million votes. He had charisma and carried the hopes of many after the wars. Trump won 73,35 million votes in 2020. Hard to believe, that Biden-Harris, two of the most dull politicos in USA, can win 80 million votes.