By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on the weekend (lead image, left) that for war operations, he refers to his “colleagues”, he meant, among several things,  that he has removed his restrictions on the General Staff’s conduct of the electric war on the Ukrainian battlefield as far west as the Polish border. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the first time, the White House has issued a piece of paper (lead image, top), signed by the President, attempting to install a form of fuhrer fascism to deter, arrest, and if need be shoot to kill any form of expression which amounts to disloyalty to the President and to […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 5th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week (October 2) at the Valdai Club conference in Sochi, President Vladimir Putin (lead image, left) responded to a question from an Iranian about the war in Gaza and President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza which had been released two days earlier in Washington.    “About Trump’s Gaza plan,” Putin replied, […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 5th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On June 30, 2021, during his Direct Line programme, President Vladimir Putin was asked what games he liked to play during his schooldays.  “I am tempted to say chess,” he replied, “but, unfortunately, it was not chess.”   Four years have gone by until his appearance yesterday at the Valdai Club, when the […]

by Editor - Friday, October 3rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The clock at the Tass office in Moscow was reading 14:24 on Tuesday afternoon when Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, was reported as saying the following about the Gaza plan of President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and ex-prime minister Tony Blair: “Russia always supports and welcomes any steps […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A week ago on September 23, President Donald Trump called President Vladimir Putin’s military power a “paper tiger”, and declared ”this is the time for Ukraine to act”. By that he said he meant “to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!” […]

by Editor - Monday, September 29th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The propaganda war to make pinprick drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and oil storage terminals appear to be destroying the Russian economy, and Ukrainian forces winning the war, came to its climax last week, on September 23, when an announcement was issued in President Donald Trump’s name. “When the people […]

by Editor - Monday, September 29th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Things will get far, far worse before they begin to get better. The prevailing ideas that shaped every era of America always became stronger, more reckless and more oblivious to risk and disaster as they approached their apogee. What has happened before will happen again. Catastrophe approaches. It will be the […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 28th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Tuesday was an unremarkable day for President Donald Trump — except for the cuts in  electricity for his escalator at the United Nations (UN) building and then for his teleprompter at the General Assembly podium. “Absolutely sabotage”, Trump announced after thinking about it for twenty-four hours.   In his UN script and then […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 25th, 2025
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By Anonymous, City of London* By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Who pulls the plug on a nation’s credit?  For decades, Barclays Capital has been a pillar of the City of London’s support for Israeli government debt as one of the twelve primary dealers whose role is to finance the debts of the Israeli state and funnel […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
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