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Blame the acronyms | The Spectator Australia
A World War I slogan in the Kaiser’s Germany proclaimed ‘When the bayonet goes in, it should hit steel, not schmalz — chicken fat.’
Currently, a Chinese bayonet is being pushed into Australia’s national polity, hitting high grade, premium butter. Having started with a spiteful, insulting tweet from China, Russia then took advantage to pile in with a tweet that also denigrated Australian Special Forces — completely ignoring their ignominious record in Afghanistan. Even Qatar, home of that infamous airport search incident, weighed in, threatening to punish Australia with trade sanctions.
Who’s to blames?
We can start with the acronyms,; DFAT, the ABC, DoD and VA, the last Veteranss Affairs, whose…
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