‘Perfidious Albion’: British Are The Real Villains And Are Trying to Start WW3, Cries Russia

The United Kingdom was responsible for the First and Second World Wars, and is trying to start the third, Russian spies say, by undermining U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for peace.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the modern incarnation of the KGB, NKVD, Cheka and others, is falling back on Victorian-era tropes of casting the United Kingdom as the global power-behind-the-curtain manipulating other countries for its own benefit. Moscow even rolled out the time-worn phrase “Perfidious Albion”, coined by the French and later adopted by German wartime propaganda to portray the then-British Empire as duplicitous, manipulating, and power-obsessed.

The accusations come as the United Kingdom marks Commonwealth Day — once known in earlier times as Empire Day — and just hours after Russia expelled two British

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