By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a conversation lasting one hour and forty minutes according to the Chinese stopwatch– “a long meeting” on  President Donald Trump’s clock    —  President Xi Jinping first knocked the stuffing out of Trump’s warmaking threats,  then forced him to beat a retreat behind a 12-month ceasefire with the man the Pentagon has […]

by Editor - Friday, October 31st, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The four-term (2013-2027) Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), Elvira Nabiullina, has assured the State Duma this week that the biggest enemy Russia faces is not the combined military and economic forces of the US and NATO, but over-heating in the domestic economy as it mobilizes to defend itself. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For every one of President Donald Trump’s eight, nine or ten peacemaking moves, as he counts  them, there has been a warmaking move. The first series are turning into propaganda fakes; the second series are turning into political and military failures. Listen to the new podcast with Nima Alkhorshid as we spell […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump was told last week by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte that the Russian people are losing their confidence in President Vladimir Putin and in the war in the Ukraine because they are having to wait in line at their petrol stations; because their airport flights can be delayed for […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 26th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with With these new words (lead image),    President Donald Trump has now obliterated – his word for the US attack on Iran on June 22, 2025  – whatever President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have been calling the “understandings” they negotiated at the summit meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 16.   […]

by Editor - Friday, October 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The daily record of Russian drone and missile strikes across the Ukraine shows not only an escalation in the scale and firepower of the electric war but also a new strategy of targeting designed by the General Staff. The lead image shows the launch and strike points on the battlefield map […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russian state news agency Tass has announced the Budapest summit meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump is off for the time being after receiving a call to its Washington bureau from a source it identified as “a US administration official”.   “The US administration has no plans […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The trick to making Budapest goulash is in the paprika – too little, and it’s just another meat-and-veg stew; too much,  and it will burn the tongue, trigger heartburn, cause flatulence.   Sources in Moscow in a position to know believe that President Vladimir Putin convinced President Donald Trump on the […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Vladimir Zelensky arrived more than thirty minutes late for lunch at the White House on Friday afternoon.  The Ukrainian delegation, which included Andrei Yermak, was already too late to dissuade  President Donald Trump (lead image) from backing down on his threat to send Tomahawk missiles through NATO to Ukraine for launching […]

by Editor - Friday, October 17th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with By the close of Thursday there was a difference of opinion between the Kremlin and the White House on what had taken place on the telephone earlier that evening between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. More exactly, there had been argument over Trump’s threat to send long-range Tomahawk cruise […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 16th, 2025
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