By John Helmer  @bears_with In their hour-long Oval Office meeting on May 22, President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa. This is the longest,  continuous face-to-face verbal assault on a foreign head of state in recent Trump history. As the lead image shows, Ramaphosa and the state ministers sitting at his right […]

by Editor - Friday, May 23rd, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with The war in the Ukraine is a sideshow for President Donald Trump because he is escalating his preparations for war against Russia on other fronts and concentrating his main forces against China on the ground, Russia in space.  This is Trump’s MEGA – Make the Empire Great Again. This is also the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with Is it MAGA or is it MEGA? When President Donald Trump negotiated with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, May 19,  was he aiming to lower the cost of the Ukraine war to the domestic US economy, or to enrich it by transferring the war cost to the Europeans, particularly Germany, so that […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday President Donald Trump telephoned President Vladimir Putin and they talked for two hours before Trump put lunch in his mouth and Putin his dinner.   On the White House schedule, there was no advance notice of the call and no record afterwards. The White House log is blank for Trump’s […]

by Editor - Monday, May 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In Soviet days Russians were famous for not smiling, at least not in public. In private, smiling was strictly between consenting adults. Now it is a marketing ploy of Sberbank — the state savings bank run by Yeltsin-era leftover, German Gref – to invite its customers to smile whenever they make payments. […]

by Editor - Monday, May 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In the outcome, it’s the old story come true again. That’s the one in which Tarquin, the ancient Roman king, wanted the Cumaean Sybil to sell him the nine books of prophecies known as the Sybilline Oracles. When the king dismissed the Sybil’s price for the nine, she burned three and asked […]

by Editor - Saturday, May 17th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday, May 12, the United States pushed the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the aircraft safety watchdog, to vote behind closed doors to adopt a secret resolution convicting Russia of shooting-down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. Unlike the Dutch show trial which in November 2022 […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In his 48-minute speech in Riyadh,  President Donald Trump was applauded many times for rewriting the past of US wars in the Middle East,  and also the future of US wars in the region, and elsewhere. From the Arab point of view, the outcome of these wars has been the destruction of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with When politicians fight wars to truce or ceasefire, there’s a mistake they often make. That is to give up escalation dominance, escalation control, to the adversary so that he gains confidence  that when he is ready, he will resume fighting in a much stronger position than he was at the truce. In […]

by Editor - Monday, May 12th, 2025
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By John Helmer  @bears_with As if it wasn’t already clear, the mainstream media led by Reuters, a Russia warfighting propaganda platform based in New York, have just announced that when President Donald Trump says he is for peace with Russia, he is either winking at his Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth or blinking at President Vladimir Putin. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
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