By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the US economy was in collapse in 1929, the advertising copywriters for Coca Cola were told to come up with a new slogan. The chief executive of the beverage company thought that for  Coke to beat its rivals, it was necessary to persuade Americans who were desperate financially to pay […]

Filed under: EU-Russia, Poland, Ukraine by Editor - Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
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By Yevgeny Krutikov, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The problem of interpreting the war from the Russian point of view is that the Russian military does not signal its punches, make idle threats, believe its own propaganda, or make money on click bait. The Stavka never leaks.   By contrast, Russian open-source commentators […]

Filed under: DwB, Ukraine by Editor - Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In his election victory speech on Sunday night,  President Vladimir Putin has accepted the 87% Russian voter mandate to finish the war by securing the Novorussian territories east of the Dnieper River, and converting western Ukraine into “a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories subordinated to the Kiev regime.” In military […]

Filed under: DwB, Russian Politics, Ukraine by Editor - Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russian regime change is war – it isn’t cricket. Between the US, the UK, and Russia there have been regime-changing games for more than a century now.  Thirty years ago Boris Yeltsin was their big hit.  They have been bad losers since then. In cricketing terms, the Kremlin regime-changing plan […]

Filed under: Russian Politics by Editor - Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In brief statements issued late last week in Moscow – their significance missed in the western press — President Vladimir Putin ordered a reality check of Russia’s war strategy. He then  answered himself by declaring the war will be over when no Ukrainian army will be left on the battlefield, […]

Filed under: Interviews, Ukraine by Editor - Saturday, June 24th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a month it will be three hundred and fourteen years precisely since the Swedes lost their king, their generals, their soldiers, and their empire when Tsar Peter the Great and the Russian army defeated them at the Battle of Poltava (lead image). That battle of July 8, 1709, is […]

Filed under: EU-Russia, Interviews by Editor - Sunday, June 4th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the buffer zone to achieve the demilitarization of the Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in July that military factors, not politics, will decide. “I see no reason to question what President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, and reaffirmed a few days ago,” Lavrov said. “Our goals […]

Filed under: Ukraine by Editor - Sunday, November 27th, 2022
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When the General Staff have been discussing with President Vladimir Putin the timing of the Russian offensive to force the Kiev regime into capitulation, it has been agreed, understood, and repeated that the strategic reserves of the Ukrainian forces should be destroyed first, together with the supply lines for the weapons […]

Filed under: DwB, Ukraine by Editor - Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the advertising Hall of Fame, three of the all-time winning slogans are “Just do it”; “Where’s the beef?”; and  “Good to the last drop”.   Three Ukrainian army soldiers and a military press officer from Kiev  have pressed all three on the Financial Times of London, and they just […]

Filed under: DwB, EU-Russia, Media, Ukraine by Editor - Friday, July 28th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A leading Ukrainian government official has admitted that a demilitarized zone (lead image, left) to divide the battlefield, protect the Russian east of the country from the US and NATO long-range assault, and partition Ukraine is in negotiation. “’We are currently being offered the Korean scenario,” Alexei Danilov (lead image, right) […]

Filed under: Poland, Ukraine, US-Russia by Editor - Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
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