View from the bridge

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[…] will to fight were not breaking under the strain and were unlikely to do so. Trump is actually the most rational and informed actor here other than Putin. . . .19 Pendry’s reference to ‘post-Soviet neo-nationalists’ sent me back to the big piece on the role of the far right in the Maidan Square […]

View from the bridge

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[…] will to fight were not breaking under the strain and were unlikely to do so. Trump is actually the most rational and informed actor here other than Putin. . . .6 Pendry’s reference to ‘post-Soviet neo-nationalists’ sent me back to the big piece on the role of the far right in the Maidan Square […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] Covert Action Magazine think Russia was justified in invading Ukraine? If so, they never quite state it. Perhaps they are inhibited by the fact that Russia under Putin is a murderous, fascist kleptocracy, whose leaders are motivated by greed and fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] big investigations by Reuters into aspects of Russia’s economy4 7 and the second is a long review of a new 46 47 book on the rise of Putin and his associates.4 8 The two articles are complimentary in many ways. Both show, for example, that the current Russian kleptocracy has been created with and […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian Right legal operation which has offices in many cities, including London. And then there is the Christian Right’s admiration for Vladimir Putin. Franklin Graham (see below) actually had a 45 minute meeting with the man who had bought Russia back to Christianity in December 2015; while during the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] and comrade Trumpski So here’s one side. This is David Corn, a left-leaning writer, in the left-leaning Mother Jones: ‘Here are the indisputable basics. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a covert assault, employing information warfare, on the 2016 US election. A 2017 report of the intelligence community, the 2019 report of Special Counsel Robert […]

View from Bridge

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[…] it was the second time senior American officials have raised the issue with their Russian counterparts, who have consistently denied involvement. President Biden raised the issue with Putin in their Geneva summit earlier in 2021. In November 2022, Burns apparently made a second demarche on this issue to Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Chief Sergey […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] and comrade Trumpski So here’s one side. This is David Corn, a left-leaning writer, in the left-leaning Mother Jones: ‘Here are the indisputable basics. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a covert assault, employing information warfare, on the 2016 US election. A 77 ‘The rise of the “intelligence agency for the people”’ The Times, 6 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be riddled with errors.’ 25 Kyle Cunliffe, ‘Donald Trump spying allegations: more likely useful idiot than Putin’s agent’ at or . 21 House of Trump, House of Putin (New York: Dutton, 2018) and American Kompromat (New York: Dutton, 2021) 22 23 See . 24 London: Simon & Schuster, 1994 See or . 25 7 […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] going to start focussing on making pro-Ukrainian videos in the new year of 2024. I will probably lose some followers but I don’t care. I am against Putin and I’m Facts Hunter published 21 videos between March and December 2023, and 20 of them were about Lira. The sole exception was on 6 June, […]

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