By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The inevitability of escalation – that’s the binding strategic requirement for President Vladimir Putin’s decisions on Russia’s warfighting options. It’s binding on the president because it is Article 12 of the Fundamentals of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence, which Putin signed in December 2024.  Here it is: […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Marshmallow imperialism is that view of American warmaking against Russia, Iran, China and Cuba which tastes sweet at first bite, but then melts in the mouth with nothing to chew on. That’s when the sugar addiction starts – this is wanting to taste more but never getting enough. Chemical engineers in […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As bird brains go, President Donald Trump doesn’t have what it takes to match an American crow.   Trump, combined with Stephen Miller, spokesman and mastermind respectively, of genocide against the enemies of the Jews in the Middle East and the enemies of the Republican Party at home, still doesn’t remember […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 19th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The E-Day (Escalation Day) decision has been put off. The Kremlin has just run up the signal that Trust in Trump (TIT) remains President Vladimir Putin’s priority. This is the flag raised on Friday morning by Vzglyad, the Kremlin-backed publication.  “Russia has gotten the most out of the Anchorage Spirit”, according to […]

by Editor - Friday, July 17th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russians and Americans – think tankers, military bloggers, podcasters  —  now calling for President Vladimir Putin to decide on Oreshnik missile and tactical nuclear warhead strikes on NATO targets, outside the Ukraine, are hopeful that the NATO response would be deterrence, not escalation. But they don’t know. They also do […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 16th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with These are the pressing questions of the Russian moment: Can President Vladimir Putin defend Russia from the escalating US-European war and at the same time preserve the oligarch economy at home? Is there a combination of military escalation, including Oreshnik strikes on NATO territorial targets, with or without nuclear warheads, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Conspiracy to commit murder is not a capital crime in the US state of South Carolina unless the murder plan  has twelve aggravating circumstances.    Incitement to genocide is a crime in the state, though it, too,  is not punishable by death. Five years in prison is the standard sentence for […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Does President Vladimir Putin believe in the magic mirror? That’s the mirror which answers questions. “Mirror, mirror, on the wall”, it has been famously asked for hundreds of years, “Who in this land is fairest of all?”   Putin’s personal advisor, Kirill Dmitriev —  the fairest in the land in his […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The rupturing of the aorta which killed US Senator Lindsey Graham on July 11  causes sudden, excruciating pain across the chest; the internal bleeding causes death so rapidly most victims cannot be saved. Graham’s fate is now to be inflicted by rapid enactment by the US Senate and House of the […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Excerpts from the Red Pill Diaries with Rasheed Muhammad, podcast on July 11, 2026: click to view or listen:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4_bD4EcHs  At the NATO summit in Ankara,  President Donald Trump has committed to maximum escalation against Russia risking and costing nothing for US voters but enriching the US military-industrial complex, the Trump family, […]

by Editor - Saturday, July 11th, 2026
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