Welcome to the war against (Islam) terrorists."
It's only been going on for years, and Putin has already gotten the message.
There is much evidence that some of the jihadists are trying to usher in a world caliphate, a muslim ruled theocracy over the entire world, adminstrated by sharia law. There have been websites with current muslim conquests, and ongoing conquests, and future quests, where all the world is ruled by a muslim theocracy.
The latter sounds impossible. In America, people would rather die than live under such a system. I am guessing Australia would do so too.
But I am not sure that is what has to happen. Most ofthe attacks, especially 9-11, have attacked economic symbols. Stating the obvious, but if the jihadists did nothing more than conquer all of the middle eastern states, and those states south of russia, that controlled probably more than half of the world's oil exports, the limited muslim theocracy could rule the world through economics. How long would it take for America to abdicate its support to Israel when the price of a gallon of gas was $75.00? 50 years ago, I would have said probably never, now, I am not sure that there aren't enough people to place their own economic comfort against the security of Israel.
If anyone has any articles, books on this issue, I would be interested in seeing them.