By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Start with the condition of President Donald Trump’s brain, according to his mouth.   “Question: Mr. President, could you tell us why you needed to get an MRI? I, I understand that the results were good, but what was it for? Donald Trump: Because it’s part of my physical. Getting an […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It is just five weeks since President Donald Trump failed to win the Nobel peace prize. The armed resistance of Iran and Venezuela has already forced him to postpone his Plan A – that’s  for regime change by what Trump likes to call his “obliteration force”.  Trump’s Plan B is for […]

by Editor - Monday, November 17th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Estonian politics are being turned upside down because of a leaked report into the diversion of defence spending. The timing is not an unlucky coincidence. It is the result of the country’s leaders claiming kudos for leading the NATO alliance in lifting the military proportion of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) […]

by Editor - Friday, November 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Since Chrystia Freeland (lead image) was dismissed from her Canadian Cabinet ministry on September 16,    she has become the “Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.” This is a camouflage uniform. According to the official filing in parliament on November 5 by the Privy Council Office (PCO) on behalf of Canadian Prime […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 13th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the time being, the Trump Administration has put its strategy for regime change by obliteration on hold in Iran and Venezuela, where Russian-backed defences are increasingly  deterring and US voters hostile.  Instead, as Trump has signalled himself, the US is focusing instead on covert operations with the same goal – […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russians are crying over the milk they can no longer afford to buy. The reason is that their income isn’t keeping up with the rapid rise in the price of milk, butter, and cheese. Elvira Nabiullina (lead image, left), Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), is to blame. The […]

by Editor - Monday, November 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Over the last three days the General Staff’s electric war strikes have continued to intensify on their targets and extend right across the Ukraine, with local utility companies announcing blackouts  from Kharkov in the east to the western regions (lead image).     In itemizing the targets on the map, Mikhail Zvinchuk, chief of […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Did Xi Jinping demonstrate escalation dominance over Donald Trump at their meeting in Busan on October 30 (lead image, right) in a way which Vladimir Putin failed to do with Trump at their meeting in Anchorage on August 15?  Has the Zhongnanhai strategy been more effective in deterring US escalation of trade […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Question: Did a new RAND report recommending the US moderate its escalating conflict with China influence President Donald Trump’s backdown in Busan? Answer: No. Question: Does the Russian escalation of words in defence of Venezuela and the Chinese silence deter Trump from launching his plan to kill Nicolás Maduro? Answer: not much. […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 2nd, 2025
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By Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw, translated and annotated by John Helmer  @bears_with In the one hundred-year old Czech satire of the simpleminded conscript in the Austro-Hungarian army of World War I, Jaroslav Hasek’s hero, the good soldier Schweik, has come to display through his stupidity what the Czechs today say goes “further in defining the Czechs in the 20th […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 2nd, 2025
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