by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The illustration of power coming out of the barrel of a gun is from a comic book. Contemplating the reality of Russia’s position in Syria, no one in a position to know believes in cartoon captions,  the credibility of the gun, or the direction in which the horse is now running. […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 12th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The defeat of the Russian army in war discredits, not the soldiers who fought and died, but the commander-in-chief and the generals who were in command. Defeat on the battlefield also destroys Russian military honour as a political force in the country, just as its opposite, victory on the battlefield,  threatens […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When former president Dmitry Medvedev (leading image, left), deputy head of the Security Council; the Russian military bloggers; and the GRU’s favoured journalist are as silent on Russian military action in Syria as they are at the moment, the signal they are sending is unmistakeably loud.  It is the sound of […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 8th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), General Charles Brown (lead image, right), has just revealed by press leak that he and the chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, had talked by telephone last week, on November 27, and agreed not to disclose the contents […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There has never been a transition between US presidential administrations which has been so replete with new Washington-directed violence across the world. That’s to say, the escalation of wars already under way and the instigation of new ones to the furthest limits of the US empire’s reach. As the Pentagon war-gaming […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with After Yulia Skripal has testified through her doctor that she was attacked with a poison spray in a restaurant minutes before she and her father, Sergei Skripal, collapsed on March 4, 2018, the British Government hearings on what happened have attempted to suppress her evidence.   Yesterday, December 2, the hearings […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Novichok show trial ended its public hearings last week in London with the revelation that it will not name the chemical constituents of the poison used in the attempted killing of Sergei and Yulia Skripal on March 4, 2018, and in the cause of death of Dawn Sturgess on June […]

by Editor - Monday, December 2nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The damage assessments of yesterday’s November 28 electric war strikes against targets across the Ukraine spell the countrywide collapse of electricity supply before January 20, when the new Trump Administration will take office. By then, the Russian General Staff will have deprived Keith Kellogg, the retired US Army general newly appointed […]

by Editor - Friday, November 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In remarks to Russian journalists on Thursday evening, President Vladimir Putin confirmed that missile and drone strikes against the Ukraine’s military infrastructure and the electricity grid  carried out on Thursday,  and also earlier in the week, are the retaliation the Defense Ministry foreshadowed  for the November 23-25 ATACMS strikes on Kursk. […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 28th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Tuesday afternoon, November 26, the Russian Defense Ministry issued an unusual bulletin revealing that since the Oreshnik strike on November 21, the US had launched two ATACMS  attacks across the Ukrainian border on Russian military targets in the Kursk region. The first of these on an S-400 air defence unit […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
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