by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with How to make losing the war in the Ukraine look like a win – this is President Donald Trump’s purpose in presenting himself and his administration as in favour of peace and of cashback to the United States. If he succeeds, he won’t appear to be running away from the battlefield, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this unique discussion held yesterday, two senior Indian strategists spell out how they see the current European and US debate over how the Ukraine war may end.   Indian Army Brigadier (retired) Arun Saghal is one of the leading intelligence analysts in India. With a PhD from Allahabad University, he was […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with During the Oval Office meeting last Friday with Vladimir Zelensky, President Donald Trump said: “We gave you through this stupid president [Biden] $350 billion.”   The day before, in Trump’s two press conferences with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on February 27, Trump repeated this number three times over: “And then […]

by Editor - Monday, March 3rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Several hours before Vladimir Zelensky arrived at the Oval Office, Nima Alkhorshid led the discussion of each of this week’s negotiations on the Ukraine war by President Donald Trump,  and by the only brain in the room, Vice President JD Vance. Click for the hour-long podcast here.   

by Editor - Friday, February 28th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In public, in front of the press, the plan of President Donald Trump on Thursday was to give British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer short shrift.  Starmer made it shorter.  TRUMP: “You’ve been terrific in our discussions. You are a very tough negotiator, however, and I’m not sure I like that, […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Shortly there will be a new summit meeting in India between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin. Just how shortly isn’t decided. India press reports claim the meeting will take place in March. The latest Russian Foreign Ministry statement indicates that preparations are under way for “the planned Russian-Indian […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s called the selfish herd reflex. In experiments with minnows, biologists have discovered that after removing the brain of a single minnow and dropping him back into the water, the brainless fish will move erratically, unable to sense the direction of his shoal, but drawing the other minnows to follow him […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On December 17, 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry proposed two treaties of non-aggression and mutual assured security to stop the US and NATO alliance’s road to war against Russia. This was the draft pact with the US; this was the draft pact with NATO.  This is how to read them.   […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Compos mentis was missing in the Oval Office on Monday morning. French President Emmanuel Macron recognized it, and was so pleased, he repeatedly said: “Thank you, dear Donald”. The answers to press questions given by President Donald Trump, sitting beside Macron, revealed that Trump doesn’t understand what end-of-war terms President Vladimir […]

by Editor - Monday, February 24th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Without reservation! No ifs, no buts! When the British Government announced the fabrication that Russia had attacked on British soil with a chemical weapon called Novichok, Keir Starmer, then a Labour Party shadow minister, announced he was sure of the government’s evidence. The attack, Starmer said, “deserves to be condemned by […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 23rd, 2025
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