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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the first time since the war against Russia began in the Ukraine eight years ago, the German government has not blamed Moscow (repeat not blamed Moscow) for coordinated acts of sabotage on Sunday, which the German secret services say they are investigating. The Germans also say they are investigating, and have […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the propaganda war the Ukrainian-supplied western media, led by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, have just announced the discovery of a box of gold teeth “in a suspected [sic] Russian torture chamber, prompting claims [sic] they were wrenched from victims [sic] of President Putin’s occupying forces in Kharkov [sic].”   They are […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Following the joint US-Polish military attack on the Nord Stream pipelines off Bornholm Island in the Baltic, Poland has announced it is escalating the war in Europe with an announcement by President Andrzej Duda. Speaking under a NATO flag in a Warsaw press interview,   Duda announced: “the problem is that we […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Belgians like to speak of themselves as the victims when the great powers of Europe go to war. They were when the Germans invaded in 1914 and 1940. But since 2014 when the Belgian government has been repeating it is gung-ho for the war with Russia, there has been no […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Timing is everything when you are telling jokes on stage; summing up for the jury in a murder trial; or when you are a general preparing to send your army over the top. Knock the comedian, lawyer, or general off his timing, and the laugh, the verdict, and the casualties will […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The official Russian reaction to the Nord Stream attack is to identify it as a US military operation, and to wait for an investigation to produce the evidence. That means wait, delay. No retaliation. “How will we respond?”  Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday in the most detailed briefing […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The military operation on Monday night which fired munitions to blow holes in the Nord Stream I and Nord Stream II pipelines on the Baltic Sea floor, near Bornholm Island,  was executed by the Polish Navy and special forces. It was aided by the Danish and Swedish military; planned and coordinated […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors voted to go to war with Russia by a vote of 26 member countries against 9. China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Senegal and South Africa voted against war with Russia.   The IAEA Secretary-General Rafael Grossi (lead image, left) has […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decided this week to take the side of Ukraine in the current war; blame Russia for the shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP); and issue a demand for Russia to surrender the plant to the Kiev regime “to regain full control over all […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Never mind the bang and whimper with which the pietistical Anglo-American Harvard alumnus and Tory snob Tom Eliot ended his 1925 poem, “The Hollow Men”.  Whatever he could have known and didn’t then, can’t answer the question now: How will this war in Europe end? Last week the Russian Foreign Minister […]