The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’35 The ‘inch […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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 […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] Trumpski? Russ Baker wrote this recently: In response to Trump’s saber rattling, Denmark says if Trump attacks Greenland, that’s the end of NATO. Who now doubts that Putin pulls Trump’s strings? This is exactly what Putin has always wanted.16 or 11 or 12 The journalists’ directory, Muckrack, tells me that Cunningham has written for […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Trumpski? Russ Baker wrote this recently: In response to Trump’s saber rattling, Denmark says if Trump attacks Greenland, that’s the end of NATO. Who now doubts that Putin pulls Trump’s strings? This is exactly what Putin has always wanted.16 or 11 or 12 The journalists’ directory, Muckrack, tells me that Cunningham has written for […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Trumpski? Russ Baker wrote this recently: In response to Trump’s saber rattling, Denmark says if Trump attacks Greenland, that’s the end of NATO. Who now doubts that Putin pulls Trump’s strings? This is exactly what Putin has always wanted.6 Why do I resist the idea that Putin is running Trump? Mainly because were it […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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