By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week it was President Donald Trump telling reporters he didn’t know what response President Vladimir Putin had made to the term-sheet for ending the Ukraine war which he sent to the Kremlin on December 2 with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner.   “I don’t know what the Kremlin is doing,” […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It is rare for the ceremony of a state visit to generate such a combination of national pride and comedy at the expense of an enemy; that’s to say, making a mockery of President Donald Trump.   This is what this Indian cartoon (lead images) of the meetings in Delhi last […]

by Editor - Monday, December 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with One needs to have memory in order to have hope for the future, doesn’t one? Regis Tremblay leads the discussion of my career in Russian politics and journalism. Click to view.  Follow the Regis Tremblay substack here.  

by Editor - Sunday, December 7th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was Black Tuesday, December 2, in Moscow, when Russian leaders negotiated the crucial  questions of war and peace with their chief enemy the US, and chief allies China and India. To understand what has happened, Chris Cook, editor-in-chief of the leading (last) independent radio for news analysis in Canada, asks […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 4th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a single day of this week, Tuesday December 2, Russian officials admitted that negotiations of an end-of-war settlement with the US are failing for lack of American specificity on the territorial and demilitarization issues and of “genuineness” and “sincerity” on ending the sanctions war;  that there are serious, unresolved, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The war to end all wars is a refrain which began with the British in 1914.  It was a domestic political ploy to convince those who should pay and then die.   They paid, they died, and though the line was discredited within a decade, they still pay. Nowadays, the British (not […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the Americans were fighting the British, it was Benjamin Franklin who reportedly told Thomas Jefferson at a strategy session: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will shortly be sitting down in Modi’s study to discuss […]

by Editor - Saturday, November 29th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In today’s podcast, we go step-wise through the Florida plan of Steven Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev (28 points); the Geneva plan of Daniel Driscoll and the US Army generals (19 points); and the Abu Dhabi plan of Driscoll, the US Army Generals, Dmitriev and a secret Russian business representative, excluding the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For this week, ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s arrival in India on December 6, I am in meetings in Delhi. Here is our first conversation with Sandeep Unnithan and Chakra News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHh0aXP1SA4 

by Editor - Monday, November 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with War fighters like President Donald Trump can’t be seen to run away from losing their wars. As Trump recently declared from the deck of the USS Harry Truman, celebrating the birthday of the US Navy: “We won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything in between. We won […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 20th, 2025
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