Do the outcomes of wars indicate the side of justice?

[Shri Anil asked: God Kṛṣṇa advised Arjuna to fight the Kurukṣetra war to annihilate demonic Kauravas. It was a victory of justice over injustice. In the present world, so many border conflicts are going on. India and Pakistan have fought four times. India has won all four wars. In 1962, China attacked us and due to our unpreparedness, they easily won the war, taking possession of some of our territory. Now China is again threatening a war against India. In these types of war, how to decide, who is just and who is unjust? Does the outcome of the war give any indication of who is on the side of justice?]

Swāmi replied: Certainly, the sin of an individual or a group of individuals brings individual or collective punishment, respectively. Knowing and judging people’s sins is only possible for the omniscient God. We can only come to know the external behaviour of a human being and not their internal secret behaviour. We are unable to examine the soul continuously and deeply. Intense sins give immediate results in this life itself.

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