6/16
"He has a strong resolve. To America great again. And, he has already made the American economy strong again...the words of candidate Trump, abki baar Trump sarkar."
~ Less than 2 months to the Presidential run.
11/16
There's many more but these should suffice to drive the point home. Point that in every single one of these, things were truly "internal." All parties affected and involved were non-Indians.

And yet we intervened.

Was it wrong?
12/16
Two answers.

First, the way geopolitics works and has worked for a long while now, nothing is internal. Every country is a stakeholder in every other. More so today than ever before.

Calculated intervention is not political voyeurism, it's a strategic imperative.
13/16
Second, and more importantly, ethics. Violence can NEVER be internal. Every single one of these cases (except, of course, #6) cried for outside intervention.

Nobody is exempt from moral scrutiny.

Not even us.

Especially not us.

Why especially?
14/16
Because violence here affects more lives then violence in, say, France. Being the largest democracy in the solar system comes with that baggage, deal with it.

That addressed, notice something common to these examples?

They're all official, government interventions.
15/16
These are not words of popstars and sportsmen, these are official Government of India positions of events deemed "internal" by other sovereigns.

Think an Amitabh Bachchan condemning violence in, say, St. Petersburg would draw Kremlin's attention?
16/16
Someone's being desperately needy and consequently fragile, and that someone isn't a foreign entity.

If spending an entire day (or two?) making rebuttals to non-State individuals reflects extremely poorly on India's collective sense of self-worth.
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