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originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: turretless
So when people have had enough and get rid of a corrupt government, a foreign load of troops arrives to guide them back on the straight and narrow? This must be stretching the resources of the foreign troop pool as quite a few places are requiring this service at the moment. Solomons New Guinea and now one of the Stans.
originally posted by: pteridine
Does the Chinese Belt and Road plan need the government to fall for better access?
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In 1984, I published a book, 'New Lies for Old', about Communist strategic political disinformation. In the book and in my Memoranda, I made several significant predictions about future developments in the Communist world. I predicted that the Communist strategists would go beyond Marx and Lenin and would introduce economic and political reforms in the USSR and Eastern Europe. I predicted the legalisation of Solidarity in Poland, the return to 'democratisation' in Czechoslovakia and the removal of the Berlin Wall. I warned about a political offensive to promote a
neutral socialist Europe which would work to Soviet advantage. I also warned that the West was acutely vulnerable to the coming major shift in Communist tactics.
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