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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Polish government in Warsaw, facing re-election in less than a year, wants all the credit from Washington for their joint operation to sabotage the Nord Stream gas pipelines on the Baltic seabed. It also wants to intimidate the German chancellor in Berlin, and deter both American and German officials from […]

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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 The only Russian leader in a thousand years who was a genuine gardener and who allowed himself to be recorded with a shovel in his hand was Joseph Stalin (lead image, mid-1930s). Compared to Stalin, the honouring of the new British king Charles III as a gardener pales into imitativeness and […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Agatha Christie’s whodunit entitled And Then There Were None – the concluding words of the children’s counting rhyme — is reputed to be the world’s best-selling mystery story.     There’s no mystery now about the war of Europe and North America against Russia; it is the continuation of Germany’s war of 1939-45 […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Alas and alack for the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 (Berliner Luftbrücke): those were the days when the Germans waved their salutes against the unification of Germany demilitarised and denazified; and cheered instead for their alliance with the US and British armies to fight another seventy years of war in order to […]

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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 that King Solomon said proverbially three thousand years ago, “a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.”   With seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, Solomon realized he was the inventor of the situation comedy. If not for the sitcom as his medicine, the bodily and psychological stress Old […]

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By Olga Samofalova, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was the American humourist Mark Twain who didn’t die in 1897 when it was reported that he had. Twain had thirteen more lively years to go. The death of the Russian aerospace and aviation industry in the present war is proving to be an […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The weakest link in the British government’s four-year long story of Russian Novichok assassination operations in the UK – prelude to the current war – is an English medical expert by the name of Guy Rutty (lead image, standing). A government-appointed pathologist advising the Home Office, police, and county coroners, Rutty […]