The Director General of Britain’s internal intelligence service, MI5, Ken McCallum, has said the country faces in Russia, China, and Iran “adversaries who have massive scale and are not squeamish about the tactics they deploy.”
On the eve of the World Cup in Qatar, McCallum used a series of football analogies, saying Russia “thinks nothing of throwing an elbow in the face, and routinely cheats to get its way … they will keep attacking us.”
In a speech at MI5’s Thames House headquarters in London on Wednesday, McCallum said Beijing was “trying to rewrite the rulebook, to buy the league, to recruit our coaching staff to work for them,” and Iran “will only let people support one team and is prepared to use violence against those who don’t toe the line.”…