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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In our first appearance together on Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid opens the discussion of how Russia is taking its fight to President Donald Trump – the best enemy Russia has ever had  in the long US war because he is imperialist in ideology, pathological in mentality,  and altogether predictable. (He is […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Over-confidence in the face of the adversary can be the death of kings. In the two great battles whose outcomes turned a small, defensive Anglo-Saxon island into an offensive global empire, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Battle of Bosworth Field of 1485, the ruling English kings, Harold Godwinson […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise For every oligarch there ever was Will gather there for certain because Today’s the day the oligarchs have their picnic. Every oligarch who’s been […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with No government can survive when it fails to control the cost in blood on the battlefield and the cost of potatoes, butter and bread on the home front. The combination at the same time is politically lethal. US President Lyndon Johnson learned this between 1965 and 1968, when the rate of […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In anticipation of the start of end-of-war negotiations between President Donald Trump’s retired general Keith Kellogg and the Kremlin, Dmitri Rogozin has proposed three fresh principles for the Russian outcome – acceleration, decapitation, mobilization. Since 1996 Rogozin is the longest running contestant for the Russian presidency — longer running than Vladimir […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There was a time when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was President of Iran (1989-97) and he despatched from his personal office secret intelligence-gatherers to Moscow. That was during the Yeltsin administration, when there was no love lost for Iran inside the Kremlin wall. So Rafsanjani’s advisors came under cover of merchants […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The war to destroy Russia has been an evil in which the British, Americans, Germans and French have combined for more than a century now. In the present stage on the Ukrainian battlefield, every weapon and force fielded by the Anglo-Americans and their allies has been defeated; the Ukraine itself, territorially […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Novichok is the notorious warfighting poison which has killed no one but fooled everyone. At least that’s how British Government officials, their scientists, chemical warfighters, policemen, media reporters, and trailing after them all, their judges, intend the story to be told.  Theirs is the story of the assassination, ordered by President […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a single line expressed through a reporter, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has explained the defeat of Syria as a tactical withdrawal in preparation for the “military conflict with NATO, and in the next 10 years. So, Russia right now needs solutions that will ensure at least a long-term balance […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Imagine the history of a bank written by the driver of the getaway car used by a gang of holdup men after their heist. Then imagine the driver and his gang are religious fundamentalists convinced that what they are doing is God’s mission to reform the banking business by introducing daylight […]