by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Vladimir Putin has solved the problem of how to conduct telephone calls with Donald Trump’s personality cult. Following Trump’s tweeted claim in the early morning of Tuesday that “many elements of a Final Agreement have been agreed to”  the telephone call which took place over two hours  of the early […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
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by  John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with NATO infantry operations veteran Major (retd) Mark Takacs (lead image) has published an  animated map analysis of the battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces around Sudzha, in the Kursk region, between March 5 and 14. Nothing comparable has been reported by the Russian military bloggers; their US copyists; or the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
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by Jean-Marc Bovy, Geneva  @bears_with Do you remember Sergei Skripal, that double agent poisoned in Great Britain, they said, by the Russian secret services? What has become of them, Sergei and his daughter Yulia, since they survived one of the most violent poisons that there are?  Why don’t we see them any longer? And there are other troublesome questions which only a great adventurer of investigating in troubled waters could tackle.

by Editor - Sunday, March 16th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this discussion on Thursday morning, Chennai time, two leading Indian military analysts, Lieutenant General (retd) Ravi Shankar and Brigadier (retd) Arun Saghal,  explain that the 30-day ceasefire which the Americans and British have proposed for the Ukraine battlefield should follow as one of the outcomes of the  end-of-war negotiations, and not […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 13th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with  “As for the situation in Syria,”, the spokesman for President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday, “violence is taking place there, which cannot but cause our deep concern. This concern is shared in many countries of the world, in international organizations, including the United Nations.”  On Tuesday, he added that “Russia supports […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 13th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There are four outcomes to beware in this game for players, and for kibitzers also. The first is the Observer Effect. This is when the observer gets so close to the target, the target itself is rattled, loses visibility, acts unpredictably. Second is the Confusion Effect when the observer can’t tell […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Last week I asked Lieutenant General (retired) P.R. Shankar to analyse India’s victorious war against Pakistan which in fourteen days, December 3-16, 1971, ended in the capitulation of the Pakistan Army and the creation of the new state of Bangladesh; and compare that with Russia’s Special Military Operation (SVO) against the […]

by Editor - Monday, March 10th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Donald Trump has asked President Vladimir Putin to assist him in arranging a grand Middle East peace deal. This, according to officials leaking to Bloomberg reporters, requires Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear weapons programme, and also “Iran’s support for its allied groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah in […]

by Editor - Friday, March 7th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Someone has convinced President Donald Trump of two simple ideas.  The first is that because the US auto, aerospace, and artificial intelligence industries are heavily  dependent for their supplies of lithium, titanium,  and other rare earth minerals (REM) on two enemy states, China and Russia, they should be replaced as quickly […]

by Editor - Friday, March 7th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a bedrock of Russian public opinion on how the war in the Ukraine should end.  There is also a bedrock of American public opinion on whether President Donald Trump is to be believed when he speaks of ending the war under the new American “Golden Dome” of peace with […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
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