By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the hour-long telephone call on Thursday (July 3) between the presidents of Russia and the United States, something President Vladimir Putin said, and also didn’t say, got up President Donald Trump’s nose.

by Editor - Friday, July 4th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump has said he believes he can use nuclear weapons to destroy his enemy’s forces for defending itself, including the enemy’s capacity for deterrence by nuclear counter-attack. This is Trump’s new doctrine of “total obliteration”. It is US shock and awe tipped over the nuclear threshold; it is American […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When Russia’s master icon painters depicted the male and female faces which are sacred in the Russian Orthodox Church, the noses were always columnar — a long, narrow bridge without curvature – ending in a pointed tip; the lips were exactly as wide as the nostrils on either side of the […]

by Editor - Monday, June 30th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In warfighting against Russia’s enemies, President Vladimir Putin makes mistakes. He admits as much. Unequalled among the current leaders of the enemy states, he has the capability to correct his mistakes quickly. That’s one of the reasons for his unequalled domestic voter support. Also, Putin is an attentive listener; he brooks […]

by Editor - Friday, June 27th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump and the Israelis cannot accept that in this round of the war against Iran, they are losing escalation control. Trump and the NATO allies will not accept that this is what Russia is taking from them on the Ukrainian battlefield. In the history of the world it has […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with According to the Unified Rules of Boxing issued by the US Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, when the bell sounds for the end of each round, there is a “rest period” before the boxers resume their fight, or one retires too hurt to continue. The ceasefire between Israel and […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When Muhammad Ali famously demonstrated the rope-a-dope strategy in the Zaire title bout  against George Forman in October 1974, he allowed Foreman to start attacking him against the ropes in Round 3. By Round 7 Foreman had exhausted his punching strength. In Round 8, Foreman dropped his guard, and Ali counterattacked […]

by Editor - Monday, June 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was just before high noon in Moscow on Thursday, June 19, when President Vladimir Putin initiated his telephone call to President Xi Jinping of China. A read-out by Putin’s foreign policy assistant, Yury Ushakov, followed almost immediately.   Xi did not authorize his summary for twenty-four hours until the Chinese […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Exaggerating the true fact to mean the false factoid is SOP (standard operating procedure) in information warfare. It’s to be expected from President Donald Trump (lead image, right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and their intelligence chiefs (centre), military officers, and media supporters. The truest of the facts in the […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The plan to attack Iran, force regime change in Teheran, decapitate and disarm Iranian forces, and partition the country into ethnic autonomies is nothing new.   In August 1941 British and empire forces (Indian, Australian) acted in coordination with Soviet forces to occupy the country, ostensibly to prevent the Shah of […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
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