[Ranger]

Interesting that the author thinks Germany and France have been holding Russia at bay in Nato. Is this true?

[LenS]

No, the author's bizarre comments about Australia show that he's one of those Indian nationalists who believe that India is a great power and that it's been held back by the white man (and not India's own stupid socialistic economic practices from 1950-1990). Australia is the boogeyman that takes the place of the British colonial government. Also, hostility towards Australia coincides with the expansionist dreams of some Indian nationalists. Australia catches their eye because it's sparsely populated, it borders "their" ocean, it's a white man ruled colony that needs "liberation", it's agriculturally productive, it's filled with natural resources and it's got great wealth and productive industry. Expansion to the north is blocked by mountains, to the east by China, and to the west by the Islamic bomb. Thus, Australia beckons. Some people still live in the fantasies generated during the colonial period.