By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Just as drones have overtaken traditional infantry, armour and artillery weapons in land war, podcasts are transforming the warfighting weapons on the media battlefield. This is the first history of war and peace podcasting and of the big-click, fat-money, heavy-weapon podcast names.   Just in time, too, because the evidence uncovered […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In Moscow last week (October 22), President Vladimir Putin (lead image, top left) told a reporter that he thinks the people of Europe can stop the war against Russia, and President Donald Trump too. “It has become obvious to everyone,” Putin said, “that it is impossible to defeat Russia on the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The destruction of the Libyan people has been attempted three times in the past century – the first by the Italians between 1911 and 1939; the second by the Germans between 1939 and 1943; and the third by the Americans, British and French from 2011 until now.   Three times the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This week the US Navy sent one of its maritime surveillance aircraft, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, on a special mission off the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea. According to the Itamilradar.com website (lead image, Itamilradar map) which monitors NATO air and naval operations in the region, “the flight track […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Never in our history have Iran and Russia worked as closely as now”, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on meeting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday (October 20). This was not a diplomatic nicety, nor is it an academic exaggeration. The history of distrust and warfighting between their two states is more […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This is the story of how recent calculations by President Donald Trump, Vladimir Zelensky, and President Vladimir Putin have come up short more quickly than they were expecting. It’s a short story — Trump’s is the shortest of the three. Trump and Zelensky have believed that the war which they, their […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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