By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russians and Americans – think tankers, military bloggers, podcasters  —  now calling for President Vladimir Putin to decide on Oreshnik missile and tactical nuclear warhead strikes on NATO targets, outside the Ukraine, are hopeful that the NATO response would be deterrence, not escalation. But they don’t know. They also do […]

by Editor - Friday, July 17th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with These are the pressing questions of the Russian moment: Can President Vladimir Putin defend Russia from the escalating US-European war and at the same time preserve the oligarch economy at home? Is there a combination of military escalation, including Oreshnik strikes on NATO territorial targets, with or without nuclear warheads, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Conspiracy to commit murder is not a capital crime in the US state of South Carolina unless the murder plan  has twelve aggravating circumstances.    Incitement to genocide is a crime in the state, though it, too,  is not punishable by death. Five years in prison is the standard sentence for […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The rupturing of the aorta which killed US Senator Lindsey Graham on July 11  causes sudden, excruciating pain across the chest; the internal bleeding causes death so rapidly most victims cannot be saved. Graham’s fate is now to be inflicted by rapid enactment by the US Senate and House of the […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Excerpts from the Red Pill Diaries with Rasheed Muhammad, podcast on July 11, 2026: click to view or listen:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4_bD4EcHs  At the NATO summit in Ankara,  President Donald Trump has committed to maximum escalation against Russia risking and costing nothing for US voters but enriching the US military-industrial complex, the Trump family, […]

by Editor - Saturday, July 11th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Even presidents-for-life reach their dotage like everybody else. They prefer to die in their own beds, also like everybody. In these three recent pieces, the case is made that Putin’s Russia – reading number 1 by Paul Craig Roberts — and Erdogan’s Turkey – reading number 3 by Abdullah Bozkurt — […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 9th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Ankara Summit Declaration  is vague enough and precise enough to mean everything and nothing to President Donald Trump (lead image) and those he regards as his subordinates, clients,  and marks in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In White House politics, it balances between the party for escalation of the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A mistake becomes a delusion when it is repeated, despite the obviousness of what can be seen  and the severity of the feedback. What is the word for a person who keeps repeating the same mistakes, and what is the cure? When the Artificial Intelligence (A) engines were marshalled to answer […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Is President Vladimir Putin facing a World War I moment of fight to destroy the threat or negotiate an armistice?  Or is he facing a German nazification moment of the 1930s? Or is Putin miscalculating who is in the “Party of War” and who can be deterred from joining it? “The […]

by Editor - Monday, July 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with How not to lose the drone war? This question, published on July 4, has been put bluntly by Dmitry Rogozin — former Russian ambassador to NATO, former deputy prime minister for the military-industrial complex, former chief of Roskosmos, and currently senator for the Zaporozhye region and front-line commander. Rogozin, 62, also a […]

by Editor - Monday, July 6th, 2026
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