By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is a primer on the way the wind has been blowing since the Ukrainian ammunition  stockpile was blown up at Khmelnitsky in the early hours of May 13. Radiation measurements in the western Ukrainian city appear to have risen sharply on May 13 and 14, indicating that British-supplied depleted […]

by Editor - Monday, May 22nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a grave risk that in three weeks’ time US and NATO forces will attempt direct combat against Russia. The operational plan is to strike from Romanian airspace in the south and the Baltic states in the north, in camouflage of the NATO exercise called “Air Defender 23”,  and […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 21st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Evidence from the US Air Force (USAF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released in federal court this week ahead of a bail hearing for Jack Teixeira, the junior airman accused of leaking top secret Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) briefing papers, reveals that Teixeira was under close surveillance […]

by Editor - Friday, May 19th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is a tale about whales and Russians. In the telling, it has surprised even its author. A university professor from Oregon, he belongs to that seagoing pod which, like the North Pacific right whales,    is a seriously endangered species right now — that’s the American exceptionalists. Ryan Tucker Jones’s book, […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 18th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s  unlikely Vladimir Zelensky has read Oscar Wilde’s well-known maxim: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” But for the idea that Ukrainian officials can draw more profit, and lose fewer of their countrymen on the battlefield, by making a flurry of tactical manoeuvres […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 14th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the war against Russia, Penny Wong (lead image, left) , the Australian Foreign Minister, has done more fighting with her feet than with her mouth. Last August 5, at a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Cambodia, Wong walked out during a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The pro-war English writers supporting the arming of the Ukrainians with depleted uranium ammunition* have no brains. The anti-war English writers opposing depleted uranium ammunition have no spines. Has the kingdom of the English ever been so self-deluded on the page and so depleted on the battlefield?   Yes once, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with To an alien from another planet, where curiosity starts with naivety, the question is being asked why earthlings calling themselves the state media of Russia report analysis of an attack on the most obvious symbol of their state from two Americans who have spent their active service careers sworn to […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 7th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Pushkin House is the only London platform for anti-Russian propaganda which publishes an annual financial report revealing where its money comes from. The organisation calls itself a charity, according to UK law, whose “principal aim”, it claims in its regular filings to UK Companies House, “is to serve as an independent […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A Berlin court judge has dismissed a charge of threatening public order by a speech by Heinrich Buecker (lead image, left) last year for which he has been prosecuted for “publicly approving a crime of aggression”. Buecker  is a well-known Berlin anti-war activist and critic of the German government’s war against […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
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