By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Over the last three days the General Staff’s electric war strikes have continued to intensify on their targets and extend right across the Ukraine, with local utility companies announcing blackouts  from Kharkov in the east to the western regions (lead image).     In itemizing the targets on the map, Mikhail Zvinchuk, chief of […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Did Xi Jinping demonstrate escalation dominance over Donald Trump at their meeting in Busan on October 30 (lead image, right) in a way which Vladimir Putin failed to do with Trump at their meeting in Anchorage on August 15?  Has the Zhongnanhai strategy been more effective in deterring US escalation of trade […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Question: Did a new RAND report recommending the US moderate its escalating conflict with China influence President Donald Trump’s backdown in Busan? Answer: No. Question: Does the Russian escalation of words in defence of Venezuela and the Chinese silence deter Trump from launching his plan to kill Nicolás Maduro? Answer: not much. […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 2nd, 2025
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By Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw, translated and annotated by John Helmer  @bears_with In the one hundred-year old Czech satire of the simpleminded conscript in the Austro-Hungarian army of World War I, Jaroslav Hasek’s hero, the good soldier Schweik, has come to display through his stupidity what the Czechs today say goes “further in defining the Czechs in the 20th […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 2nd, 2025
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