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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with An international  platform for national upstarts to upstage each other – trained roosters clawing at each other in a cockpit surrounded by money bettors. This comes every September when the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) holds what it calls High-Level Week and the General Debate. Lame ducks can pretend to be […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Greenland is to be the newest US and NATO drone and missile launcher against Russia. According to the preamble of the agreement with Denmark and the Prime Minister of Greenland, signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 22), Russia is now an outsider in the Arctic region ruled by the […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Blind man’s buff is an old game of parlour warfare in which the combatants try to tag the blind one, the buffer, and then hide. If they are caught, they are out of the game. The buffer wins when he’s tagged them all out. Hiding in plain sight, making deceptive noises […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A new drone has appeared on the European battlefield. With lightweight warhead and jet propulsion, it has almost unlimited range, and Circular Error Probability (CEP) of less than 10 millimetres. When it strikes the brain, it doesn’t kill or maim. It preserves the target’s motor functions but renders it senseless. That’s […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nothing succeeds so consistently and so badly at changing the hearts, minds, and votes of people than bombing them. It’s a conclusion that the 316 volumes of the US Strategic Bombing Survey of 1944-45  came to about the enemies of that time, the Germans and Japanese, very reluctantly.   In announcing […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with From which direction does the sun come up each day? That was one of the questions in the battery of tests which was  used on patients to diagnose the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. An answer confusing east and west was a symptom of that brain disease. The question comes up today […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When President Donald Trump blames Vladimir Zelensky for the diesel crisis in the US, he is more than scapegoating the wrong man. He is revealing he has no October Surprise – no peace deal for the Russia-Ukraine war, no peace deal with Iran,  no peace deal with Yemen – to save […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Summit meetings are always circus rings. BRICS India 2026, just concluded in Delhi, is no different from BRICS Brasil 2025 nor from BRICS China 2027. There’s another political constant. The BRICS summit leaders, especially President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aim to be a combination of […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Starting at 10:30 Moscow, Athens and Beirut time on Saturday morning, Dimitri Lascaris hosted the Reason2Resist podcast to discuss the Ansarallah defeat of Saudi air and ground forces at the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, the Saudi coastline, and Egypt’s lifeline, the Suez Canal.    Not since the […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Broadcast live today from 07:15 Eastern Time (US), click to watch or listen:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIk6TSrF-OA  The two documents that are now the pointers for the outcome of the BRICS summit on Saturday are the Foreign Ministers’ statement of last May 15 and the Bishkek Declaration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), issued […]