By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Vladimir Putin has ordered his two spokesmen, Dmitry Peskov and Yury Ushakov, to deny Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statement that the General Staff has been authorized to escalate war operations to regime decapitation in the Ukraine. On Monday evening, May 25,  Lavrov telephoned US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 28th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Reading is more effective for understanding Presidents Trump, Putin and Xi than listening. This is because reading uses more of your brain to process the incoming information, compare and fact-check it, than listening or viewing podcasts. American brain scientists report new experiments which prove this. “To mirror the transient nature of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Zugzwang is the position between adversaries when one is forcing the other to make the next move, but whatever move he makes will be his defeat. President Donald Trump (lead image, left) is in it. The only way out for him is to play for time, disguising his predicament with as […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The best way of learning how the men inside the Kremlin think is in the history of the Byzantine Empire which began in the 4th century AD and whose last day, the anniversary of the empire’s last day,  we celebrate this week – May 29, 1453. The Kremlin men, fresh from their […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russian missile attack on central Kiev and on the airbase bunker at Bela Tserkva, 75 kilometres south of Kiev, over Saturday evening and Sunday morning, was a calibrated retaliation for the Ukrainian attack on the children’s dormitory at Starobelsk, Lugansk region,  on Friday. Measured tit for tat against neo-Nazi terrorism […]

by Editor - Monday, May 25th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “The mutual respect the Chinese side asks us to show towards them when they respond with a theory of their supremacy over time over our dead bodies – that is offensive. For this to come from the Politburo of the Communist Party of China is more than strange. It’s a fundamental […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 24th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “We are not fighting anyone”, President Vladimir Putin announced in Beijing this week to the reassurance of his host, President Xi Jinping. “We are ready to cooperate with everyone, with all our global partners, including the United States.” Xi replied privately, also with reassurance for the US.  The US first, Russia […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 21st, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There’s a children’s playground called Multipolarity (aka Polycentricity). It’s large enough for children to play games of hide and seek*. That’s a game as ancient as the Greeks of the time of Thucydides. He’s famous in China because President Xi Jinping quotes him to American presidents – last week to Donald […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Doubling down is what the alliance of Russia’s enemies should do now, editorializes the Financial Times, the Japanese propaganda platform in London, pointing at the summit meeting in Beijing between President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping. The alliance “should take confidence in their strategy — even if it will be […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A long time ago, when the Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou understood that the enemy of his country and of himself was the American Empire, and I was a member of his private office, he gave me a copy of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War to read – study carefully […]

by Editor - Monday, May 18th, 2026
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