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 Why do so many CIA and MI6 officers (retired) know and say so much about the damage Israel and the US have inflicted on Iran since they began their war on June 13, but so little about the damage Iran has inflicted on Israel (lead image)? “As you know,” President Donald […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 25th, 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 - Monday, June 23rd, 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 - Sunday, June 22nd, 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 - Wednesday, June 18th, 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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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There are no flies on President Vladimir Putin. That’s an expression which originated in the fly-blown goldrush mines of Australia in 1840 and then moved with the flies to the goldrush mines of California a few years later. Literally, it means a man who is too quick for a fly to […]

by Editor - Sunday, June 15th, 2025
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