By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Even presidents-for-life reach their dotage like everybody else. They prefer to die in their own beds, also like everybody. In these three recent pieces, the case is made that Putin’s Russia – reading number 1 by Paul Craig Roberts — and Erdogan’s Turkey – reading number 3 by Abdullah Bozkurt — […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 9th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Ankara Summit Declaration  is vague enough and precise enough to mean everything and nothing to President Donald Trump (lead image) and those he regards as his subordinates, clients,  and marks in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In White House politics, it balances between the party for escalation of the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A mistake becomes a delusion when it is repeated, despite the obviousness of what can be seen  and the severity of the feedback. What is the word for a person who keeps repeating the same mistakes, and what is the cure? When the Artificial Intelligence (A) engines were marshalled to answer […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Is President Vladimir Putin facing a World War I moment of fight to destroy the threat or negotiate an armistice?  Or is he facing a German nazification moment of the 1930s? Or is Putin miscalculating who is in the “Party of War” and who can be deterred from joining it? “The […]

by Editor - Monday, July 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with How not to lose the drone war? This question, published on July 4, has been put bluntly by Dmitry Rogozin — former Russian ambassador to NATO, former deputy prime minister for the military-industrial complex, former chief of Roskosmos, and currently senator for the Zaporozhye region and front-line commander. Rogozin, 62, also a […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A sixty-year old Greek whom nobody has ever heard of outside Athens has just revealed how the NATO war against Russia is being waged; why it will be permanent; and why the end-of-war terms President Vladimir Putin has made public stand no chance of being accepted. Ever. The Greek has also […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the September election President Vladimir Putin doesn’t come before Russian voters to bury Russia but to praise it. As he has been explaining about the propaganda war of the Western elites, as Putin calls the enemy now,  the evil they do is living after them these days; the good they […]

by Editor - Friday, July 3rd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “We will not abandon the Cuban people in their time of need,” Russia’s Energy Minister, Sergei Tsivilev, announced three months ago to the day.     “A Russian vessel [Anatoly Kolodkin] has broken through the blockade. Now a second one is being loaded. We won’t leave the Cubans hanging,” he told an […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russia’s escalation options for ending the war on the original terms of the Special Military Operation of February 2022 are now too little, too late. This is because demilitarization of the Ukrainian battlefield cannot stop or deter the rearmament of the NATO allies for permanent war against Russia. Nor can denazification […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Of the many questions we have been asking during this war, here’s a new one. A double-barreled one. What will it take for the Kremlin to ensure that the outcome of Russian votes at the national parliamentary election on September 18-20 will be a majority for the ruling United Russia party […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
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