By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The trick to making Budapest goulash is in the paprika – too little, and it’s just another meat-and-veg stew; too much,  and it will burn the tongue, trigger heartburn, cause flatulence.   Sources in Moscow in a position to know believe that President Vladimir Putin convinced President Donald Trump on the […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 19th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Vladimir Zelensky arrived more than thirty minutes late for lunch at the White House on Friday afternoon.  The Ukrainian delegation, which included Andrei Yermak, was already too late to dissuade  President Donald Trump (lead image) from backing down on his threat to send Tomahawk missiles through NATO to Ukraine for launching […]

by Editor - Friday, October 17th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with By the close of Thursday there was a difference of opinion between the Kremlin and the White House on what had taken place on the telephone earlier that evening between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. More exactly, there had been argument over Trump’s threat to send long-range Tomahawk cruise […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 16th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Manipulating the US president to make his domestic and foreign policy decisions as Stephen Miller of the White House (lead image-3) is doing with President Donald Trump (lead image-2) is not new. Jimmy Carter tried to dismantle the bureaucracy and the mindset (ideology) of the “imperial presidency”, as he called the White […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the new podcast from Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid asks if President Donald Trump has decided to sell Tomahawk missiles to the NATO allies for attacking the Russian hinterland,  and why the allies are so keen to continue fighting the war when it is obvious the Tomahawk cannot turn defeat on […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week, according to the New York Times,  the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was reported to have tried to head off President Donald Trump’s escalation to frontal military attack on Venezuela and regime change in Caracas by offering  “a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 12th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Listen to Dimitri Lascaris, Slobodan Despot and me discuss the reasons why the weak and desperate governments of Europe and the UK want war with Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChTDuZnYwSk 

by Editor - Saturday, October 11th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There are two reasons why President Vladimir Putin is serious about making the Oreshnik threat of retaliation in public, and also serious in holding it back. A red light, which is also flashing yellow and green.   One reason is political. Russian public opinion is strongly in favour of a peace […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on the weekend (lead image, left) that for war operations, he refers to his “colleagues”, he meant, among several things,  that he has removed his restrictions on the General Staff’s conduct of the electric war on the Ukrainian battlefield as far west as the Polish border. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the first time, the White House has issued a piece of paper (lead image, top), signed by the President, attempting to install a form of fuhrer fascism to deter, arrest, and if need be shoot to kill any form of expression which amounts to disloyalty to the President and to […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 5th, 2025
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