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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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “I hope I am not revealing any great secret,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (lead image, left) said at his press conference following the BRICS ministerial meeting in Delhi on Friday (May 15). But he did just that: By hint towards China on its voting to approve loans for the Ukraine […]

by Editor - Friday, May 15th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Two empires, one system – that’s the idea which President Xi Jinping has asked President Donald Trump to accept. In the official Chinese version of the talks between Xi and Trump in Beijing this week, Xi declared: “I have agreed with President Trump on a new vision of building a constructive China-U.S. […]

by Editor - Friday, May 15th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the absence of a mass anti-war, anti-Empire political movement in the US – in the world, in fact  –  journalism is the next best thing. In the journalism which resists imperialism podcasting is the next best thing;  it’s as new to resistance mobilization as drones are to military campaigns. Think […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with At President Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day press conference with Russian reporters he was misheard to say that the Ukraine war is coming soon to an end. Pavel Zarubin, a reporter with  state television with whom Putin often plants question and answer combinations, asked: “You have recently said that the terrorist threat […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In Russian, the verb ушёл is in the perfective past tense, masculine, of the infinitive уйти, meaning “to leave”. Its synonyms include depart, quit, walk away, retire, resign, withdraw.   A train which is reported to have left the station continues on its journey. It has not crashed off the track. […]

by Editor - Monday, May 11th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Once upon a time, in 2019, President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Israel make “a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country…Without any exaggeration, I can say with pride that probably there has never […]

by Editor - Friday, May 8th, 2026
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