By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Following their 60-minute meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (July 10), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced the only new points he made with Secretary of State Marco Rubio are two he has made before, often.  These were “the resumption of direct flights [between Russia and the US] and continued efforts to […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Vladimir Putin’s speech to the BRICS summit session in Rio de Janeiro this week (July 6) was brief.  Unusually so for Putin’s public speeches, but not so for his speeches to the BRICS summit in earlier years. This time he took 810 words (Kremlin English version; 710 in the Russian). […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump began rigging his latest attempt  to win the Nobel Peace Prize in January 2024, a year before the Norwegian Prize Committee closed the 2025 prize nominations on January 31. That was also eleven months before Trump was elected president to begin the peacemaking streak which he currently lists as […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian public opinion isn’t well understood in the US because Russian opinion changes with the news from the Ukraine battlefield and from President Donald Trump’s (lead image, right) warmaking elsewhere; because there are more Americans who want to be loved by Russians than there are Russians who want to be loved […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump thought he had gotten the deal terms and the cover story right, and also the prize for himself (the Nobel Peace Prize ). The deal was that under cover of an authorized leak to the press from Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eldridge Colby, that the US was […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 6th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the hour-long telephone call on Thursday (July 3) between the presidents of Russia and the United States, something President Vladimir Putin said, and also didn’t say, got up President Donald Trump’s nose.

by Editor - Friday, July 4th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump has just won the Vietnam War – except that he’s too modest to declare it a victory over Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, or claim theirs was a war against Vietnam which would never have happened if he had been president. In the first place, Trump’s predecessors would […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump has said he believes he can use nuclear weapons to destroy his enemy’s forces for defending itself, including the enemy’s capacity for deterrence by nuclear counter-attack. This is Trump’s new doctrine of “total obliteration”. It is US shock and awe tipped over the nuclear threshold; it is American […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
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