By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Seven months ahead of time, Roman Hofman (Гофман, Gofman), military secretary (advisor) to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since April 2024,  has been nominated as the new director of Mossad, succeeding David Barnea whose term ends in June 2026. Netanyahu’s move cuts Gofman’s tenure in the prime minister’s office prematurely short; […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week it was President Donald Trump telling reporters he didn’t know what response President Vladimir Putin had made to the term-sheet for ending the Ukraine war which he sent to the Kremlin on December 2 with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner.   “I don’t know what the Kremlin is doing,” […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was Black Tuesday, December 2, in Moscow, when Russian leaders negotiated the crucial  questions of war and peace with their chief enemy the US, and chief allies China and India. To understand what has happened, Chris Cook, editor-in-chief of the leading (last) independent radio for news analysis in Canada, asks […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 7th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a single day of this week, Tuesday December 2, Russian officials admitted that negotiations of an end-of-war settlement with the US are failing for lack of American specificity on the territorial and demilitarization issues and of “genuineness” and “sincerity” on ending the sanctions war;  that there are serious, unresolved, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The war to end all wars is a refrain which began with the British in 1914.  It was a domestic political ploy to convince those who should pay and then die.   They paid, they died, and though the line was discredited within a decade, they still pay. Nowadays, the British (not […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
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