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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with With these new words (lead image),    President Donald Trump has now obliterated – his word for the US attack on Iran on June 22, 2025  – whatever President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have been calling the “understandings” they negotiated at the summit meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 16.   […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The daily record of Russian drone and missile strikes across the Ukraine shows not only an escalation in the scale and firepower of the electric war but also a new strategy of targeting designed by the General Staff. The lead image shows the launch and strike points on the battlefield map […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russian state news agency Tass has announced the Budapest summit meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump is off for the time being after receiving a call to its Washington bureau from a source it identified as “a US administration official”.   “The US administration has no plans […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The trick to making Budapest goulash is in the paprika – too little, and it’s just another meat-and-veg stew; too much,  and it will burn the tongue, trigger heartburn, cause flatulence.   Sources in Moscow in a position to know believe that President Vladimir Putin convinced President Donald Trump on the […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Vladimir Zelensky arrived more than thirty minutes late for lunch at the White House on Friday afternoon.  The Ukrainian delegation, which included Andrei Yermak, was already too late to dissuade  President Donald Trump (lead image) from backing down on his threat to send Tomahawk missiles through NATO to Ukraine for launching […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with By the close of Thursday there was a difference of opinion between the Kremlin and the White House on what had taken place on the telephone earlier that evening between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. More exactly, there had been argument over Trump’s threat to send long-range Tomahawk cruise […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Manipulating the US president to make his domestic and foreign policy decisions as Stephen Miller of the White House (lead image-3) is doing with President Donald Trump (lead image-2) is not new. Jimmy Carter tried to dismantle the bureaucracy and the mindset (ideology) of the “imperial presidency”, as he called the White […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the new podcast from Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid asks if President Donald Trump has decided to sell Tomahawk missiles to the NATO allies for attacking the Russian hinterland,  and why the allies are so keen to continue fighting the war when it is obvious the Tomahawk cannot turn defeat on […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week, according to the New York Times,  the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was reported to have tried to head off President Donald Trump’s escalation to frontal military attack on Venezuela and regime change in Caracas by offering  “a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Listen to Dimitri Lascaris, Slobodan Despot and me discuss the reasons why the weak and desperate governments of Europe and the UK want war with Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChTDuZnYwSk