by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this new podcast Nima Alkhorshid takes the record of the Riyadh talks between Russia and the US to the next stage.  What has the Russian side just learned of US capabilities, intentions, plans from the performances Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Steven Witkoff, representative […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was obvious from the slow descent of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stepping down the stairs from his aircraft, watching his shoes until they hit the ground in Riyadh, that the US side in Tuesday’s talks lacked a confident mandate from the White House for negotiations with the Russians.   […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In today’s Dialogue Works podcast, Nima Alkhorshid steals a march on Tuesday’s talks between the Russian and American teams preparing for the summit meeting to follow between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.  We look at the US team – the megalomaniac, the Confederates, the Family, and the moneymen – […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, is the first of President Vladimir Putin’s strategic allies to leave him to make whatever exit from the Ukraine war he can negotiate with President Donald Trump. Modi did this by saying as little as he could about Russia last week in Washington while […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 16th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On arriving at the White House, it’s the first rule of American politics for the new president to overestimate his power, and for his staff and appointees to confer that exaggeration upon themselves. The second rule for these novices and freshmen is to declare as much of this power as possible […]

by Editor - Friday, February 14th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Playing pirates on the high seas was once a bankrupt king’s scheme, then an empire schoolboy’s game — first for the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British, and now the MAGA Americans. From the Hollywood films he watched when he was in short pants, Donald Trump did not learn that […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 13th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For their daily bread, Russians pay much less than the citizens of the US, the European Union, and other bread-eating states in the warfighting alliance.  At current prices, the Russian loaf of white bread is cheaper by almost seven times than the American; six times less than the Norwegian; four times […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last Chinese as clever, as profiteering, and as popular in the imagination of millions as DeepSeek was Dr Fu Manchu. “Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan,” wrote his creator Sax Rohmer, the alias of an Englishman:  “invest him […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 9th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Holding hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, US President Donald Trump has adopted genocide as his personal method for destroying the Arabs of Palestine. “Really very unlucky”, Trump declared the Palestinians have been for being the wrong people in the wrong place. “Being in its presence just has not […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 6th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On January 17, when the Presidents of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian,  signed the Treaty on the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation,  they were standing at the front of a line of Russian and Iranian (Persian) tsars, shahs, generals, ministers, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
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