By John Helmer  @bears_with The war in the Ukraine is a sideshow for President Donald Trump because he is escalating his preparations for war against Russia on other fronts and concentrating his main forces against China on the ground, Russia in space.  This is Trump’s MEGA – Make the Empire Great Again. This is also the […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday President Donald Trump telephoned President Vladimir Putin and they talked for two hours before Trump put lunch in his mouth and Putin his dinner.   On the White House schedule, there was no advance notice of the call and no record afterwards. The White House log is blank for Trump’s […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In Soviet days Russians were famous for not smiling, at least not in public. In private, smiling was strictly between consenting adults. Now it is a marketing ploy of Sberbank — the state savings bank run by Yeltsin-era leftover, German Gref – to invite its customers to smile whenever they make payments. […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday, May 12, the United States pushed the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the aircraft safety watchdog, to vote behind closed doors to adopt a secret resolution convicting Russia of shooting-down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. Unlike the Dutch show trial which in November 2022 […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In his 48-minute speech in Riyadh,  President Donald Trump was applauded many times for rewriting the past of US wars in the Middle East,  and also the future of US wars in the region, and elsewhere. From the Arab point of view, the outcome of these wars has been the destruction of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with When politicians fight wars to truce or ceasefire, there’s a mistake they often make. That is to give up escalation dominance, escalation control, to the adversary so that he gains confidence  that when he is ready, he will resume fighting in a much stronger position than he was at the truce. In […]

by Editor - Monday, May 12th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with As if it wasn’t already clear, the mainstream media led by Reuters, a Russia warfighting propaganda platform based in New York, have just announced that when President Donald Trump says he is for peace with Russia, he is either winking at his Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth or blinking at President Vladimir Putin. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
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By Lieutenant General P.R. Shankar & Brigadier Arun Sahgal, introduced by John Helmer  @bears_with On April 22, an Islamic terrorist group, backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), attacked Indian civilians in Pahalgam, Kashmir, killing 26 and wounding 20.     “Although the civilian government in Islamabad has denied involvement,” reports Chatham House, the semi-official British think tank,   “there […]

by Editor - Monday, May 5th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with After the Victory Day celebration later this week, President Vladimir Putin has agreed to hold a summit meeting with President Donald Trump. “The Americans have repeatedly asked for a summit and the Kremlin has finally decided,” according to a reliable Moscow source, “that there is no need to spurn the extended […]

by Editor - Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “When war and revolution come, remember the long years in which the storm was rising, and don’t blame the thunderbolt”.   That warning appeared in the Chicago Tribune in November 24, 1895. It was written by Clarence Darrow, then a young city lawyer working for railroads and also for unions in […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 1st, 2025
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