The truth hurts doesn't it Individual

Poirot
The fact you assume the government is justified in doing what you criticise it for is not off-topic, it's directly on topic, so stop trying to squirm out of it.

Do you think everyone can't see your evasion? You're only demonstrating you know full well and don't care that what you're saying is self-contradictory and untrue.

Joe,
Putin's current court philosopher is Alexsandr Dugin, over the last five years a lot of his work has being translated into English and your characterisation of the Eurasian project is not inaccurate.
Fascism isn't usually overly concerned with biological race, the NSDAP did have scientific Racism as a gimmick but in general Fascism is based on identity so the new movements are identitarian and futuristic, not racist and traditionalist.
What has to be said though is that people who wave Swastika flags or adopt what we call the "Hollywood Nazi" image are not the real thing, there's always something off about their leaders and the way they conduct themselves and in almost 100% of cases they're either working for the security services or for clandestine Jewish activist groups.

JKJ,

You are deliberately attempting to "skew" the topic of this thread which is ostensibly concerned with Abbott and his enthusiastic and premature chest beating.

Why, in that case, would I wish to become involved with another of your generic rants on the subject of govt?

If you wait a couple of threads, I'm sure you'll get a chance to deploy your ACME auto government rant button and spill your bile over successive posts.

(Nice try, Peter. Go and find someone else to insult, while cleverly wrapping in up in your fish paper spiel)

The truth hurts doesn't it Individual
Ojnab,
Yes & you feel it far more than most who are not as hypocirical.

Kiddies, can we get back to topic ?

The fascist Islamic State [how else would you describe it ?] represents a very clear danger for nation-states across a very wide area, from Afghanistan across to Mauretania (make that: from India to Mauretania).

Many or most of those states have limited means of keeping themselves together, with poor infrastructure, especially in their peripheral areas, so breaking off bits under various fundamentalist-terrorist groups doesn't seem to be difficult.

There are now more than a dozen Islamist groups controlling vast areas, with tens of millions of people under their brutal sway, and Boko Haram ('Education is filth') has already put itself under the Islamic State; others will follow, including (betcha) Hamas.

This fascist movement is exterminating men, enslaving women and beheading children across Syria and Iraq, its current heartland. Anybody who does not fit into their notion of a 'good Muslim' faces death. By their own definition, they will never 'negotiate' or agree to a truce, given their declaration to spread Shari'a across the world, and to carry out jihad against the world until they succeed.

Currently, it's Iraq and Syria facing dismemberment. The US is building a coalition of forces to confront and ultimately defeat it. I'm glad that Australia is part of that coalition.

Get your priorities right: there will never be a place for the pseudo-left amongst those fascists, so get over your anti-Americanism.

Joe