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"The history is still there. Badly reported here on FR, and I would have expected any fellow UK chaps to say as such."

Glad to hear it.

"Are you suggesting that the Russians have infiltrated the UK armed forces and are controlling the policy of it?"

I am suggesting that leftists have infiltrated the UK Armed Forces (and the US Armed Forces) and are sometimes influencing specific policies---this would be one of them. I believe the Russians exert control over left-wing organizations in the upper level and exert considerable influence on the thinking that goes on throughout those organizations.

I believe the Russians have achieved certain amounts of penetration in most institutions in Western societies. The amounts of penetration vary widely, and I know very little about what is going on in Great Britain (but overall, it does not look good).

What I'm saying, in a general sense, is that the coordination of the different forces in the Left around the world is too great to be explained by a anything but that they are following central leadership.

We know that the Russians founded International Communism in the first half of the 20th century. In the US, communism faded, but something called the New Left rose to prominence. Now, a large number of the leaders of the Democratic Party are people who used to be in the New Left.

I maintain that the Russians continued their penetration of Western societies in the second half of the 20th century---but they just developed a technique that was so careful that it has not been detected. in addition, Russian influence over the mainstream media and in academia helps blind people to what is going on.

In the US, for example, it has been observed that the State Department operates as a unit in service of enemies of the United States quite consistently(Dangerous Diplomacy, How the State Department Undermines Americans Security, by Joel Mowbray, 2003, Regnery Publishing. He is a writer for National Review Online.) The US State Department is a fairly extreme example, in my opinion, of Russian penetration.

This policy that has developed in the British army in Iraq strikes me as the kind of thing that is the product of Russian penetration. It is an example of people inside an army---it seems to me---serving the enemy.

I don't mean to imply tight Russian control over the personnel in question. If you talked to them, they would probably espouse a variety of leftist ideas to support their actions. But I am saying that the Russians are directly controlling the Worldwide Left, albeit they hold the reins somewhat loosely---because their absolutely prime rule is to avoid detection---everything else is secondary.