By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When journalism reports decision-making and action-taking in Teheran, Beijing, Moscow,  and Washington —  one after another in time sequence —  the differences, the corrections, the contradictions, and  the ambiguities of meaning between them are bound to be confusing to observers reading the record of outcomes without inside knowledge.   Confusion, however, […]

by Editor - Monday, April 20th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This is not a question. Asking it is the answer.This is because the Security Council, the politburo of Russian war and security policymaking which President Vladimir Putin leads but does not fully control, rarely issues public statements; it never issues one like the announcement of April 14.

by Editor - Sunday, April 19th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For our audience, which is exposed every few minutes of the day to the knowns, speculation about the known facts, speculation about the knowns, and the hopefulness, wishfulness,  and theories of what’s about to happen, that’s an impossible amount of data and information to make sense of things. Let’s try an […]

by Editor - Friday, April 17th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In successive tweets on Wednesday afternoon (April 15), President Donald Trump posted a new picture himself as the embodiment of God the Son on earth (lead image, left).  Forty-four  minutes earlier, he had announced that “President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there [China] in a few weeks.”    […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Between saying something if you are a Chinese admiral and Defense Minister and meaning something if you are a Politburo member and Foreign Minister, there is a pussyfooting difference. If you are the US Treasury Secretary and you tell the Chinese what you mean, that’s different. And then if you are […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the world in which President Donald Trump plans his future (lead image), and the presidential dynasty of his sons to succeed him, the gunman believes he can take away both lives and bribes.  Unless the victim catches him by surprise, outgunning him and those of his allies who have paid […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Inside the Kremlin Wall there is only one man sitting or standing whose closeness to President Vladimir Putin has so excited his ambition to be rich (billion-dollar rich), and to be powerful (the next head of government), that he dares to shout from the ramparts that peace on the Ukrainian battlefield, […]

by Editor - Monday, April 13th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As the frontrunner in the race to succeed President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance had more to lose in the negotiations with Iran in Islamabad than his principal rivals – they are Trump the father and his sons, Donald Jr and Eric Trump; or Mario Rubio, the Secretary of State […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On the eve of the Islamabad negotiations, by intention, the US oligarch-run media platform known as the Washington Post editorialized in favour of a five-point combination of invasion and genocide for Iran in order to achieve a “final and decisive conclusion” if Iran refuses to come to “an acceptable agreement”. That meant […]

by Editor - Saturday, April 11th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to the role God plays in Vatican politics, inside the Holy See and outside in the warmaking capital of the US, there can never be too much ado about nothing. You don’t have to be a believer to understand that in war and politics, God is Not Nothing. […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 9th, 2026
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