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Twelve other people are voting for that so I'm not sure why you're asking me. As for why I think it will be more likely provide useful information rather than what would likely just be a guestimation of the extent of their infiltration and info related to that. Maybe the latter will yield something useful but I feel the posture report will be more helpful.@Alias , may I ask why you think a Lecarre diplomatic posture report is likely to prove enlightening, compared to a report on the extent of their infiltration?
If nothing else, we might well be able to relax a bit if we knew enough to establish some limits on the extent of the infiltration.
To be more clear, though, when a government is unstable, you just cannot realistically hope that their diplomatic posture will remain stable enough that knowing it in detail remains valuable.
Again, imagine being the world's greatest expert in Soviet diplomatic posture circa 1987, or the greatest expert in the Czar's foreign policy circa 1916. You might feel very well informed about how your respective generation of Russians was going to interact with the outside world, but your information wouldn't remain very important for long. And trying to act on it without understanding the underlying structure of the governments and their internal weaknesses isn't going to get you anywhere.
Because there is a high likelihood of the war ending within the next year, and/or of some major event that forces the Federation to freak out and become involved somehow, we really need detailed context for the social and political changes both nations have experienced.
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