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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The morning public record issued by the Kremlin of the talks yesterday in Moscow between President Vladimir Putin and President Emmanuel Macron remains for the moment in Russian.    The official English transcript will follow later today. The two presidents met for almost six hours, and then held a press conference for […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A soldier who lays a booby trap for his adversary thinks him fool enough to be tricked or lured to his own death. He thinks his enemy is inferior and deserves death. He hates him. The German expression for war planned and executed like this is rassenkampf, race war. The German generals […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Hatred of the Russian race and Russophobia are more than a thousand years old in Europe – long enough for everyone nowadays to realise there’s no cure for them.  At least not by rational persuasion, not by words.  Remission by force of arms is another matter altogether. A Swiss history of […]