by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Several hours before Vladimir Zelensky arrived at the Oval Office, Nima Alkhorshid led the discussion of each of this week’s negotiations on the Ukraine war by President Donald Trump,  and by the only brain in the room, Vice President JD Vance. Click for the hour-long podcast here.   

by Editor - Friday, February 28th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In public, in front of the press, the plan of President Donald Trump on Thursday was to give British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer short shrift.  Starmer made it shorter.  TRUMP: “You’ve been terrific in our discussions. You are a very tough negotiator, however, and I’m not sure I like that, […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Shortly there will be a new summit meeting in India between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin. Just how shortly isn’t decided. India press reports claim the meeting will take place in March. The latest Russian Foreign Ministry statement indicates that preparations are under way for “the planned Russian-Indian […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s called the selfish herd reflex. In experiments with minnows, biologists have discovered that after removing the brain of a single minnow and dropping him back into the water, the brainless fish will move erratically, unable to sense the direction of his shoal, but drawing the other minnows to follow him […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On December 17, 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry proposed two treaties of non-aggression and mutual assured security to stop the US and NATO alliance’s road to war against Russia. This was the draft pact with the US; this was the draft pact with NATO.  This is how to read them.   […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Compos mentis was missing in the Oval Office on Monday morning. French President Emmanuel Macron recognized it, and was so pleased, he repeatedly said: “Thank you, dear Donald”. The answers to press questions given by President Donald Trump, sitting beside Macron, revealed that Trump doesn’t understand what end-of-war terms President Vladimir […]

by Editor - Monday, February 24th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Without reservation! No ifs, no buts! When the British Government announced the fabrication that Russia had attacked on British soil with a chemical weapon called Novichok, Keir Starmer, then a Labour Party shadow minister, announced he was sure of the government’s evidence. The attack, Starmer said, “deserves to be condemned by […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 23rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this new podcast Nima Alkhorshid takes the record of the Riyadh talks between Russia and the US to the next stage.  What has the Russian side just learned of US capabilities, intentions, plans from the performances Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Steven Witkoff, representative […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was obvious from the slow descent of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stepping down the stairs from his aircraft, watching his shoes until they hit the ground in Riyadh, that the US side in Tuesday’s talks lacked a confident mandate from the White House for negotiations with the Russians.   […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In today’s Dialogue Works podcast, Nima Alkhorshid steals a march on Tuesday’s talks between the Russian and American teams preparing for the summit meeting to follow between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.  We look at the US team – the megalomaniac, the Confederates, the Family, and the moneymen – […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
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