By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For all its public talk, NATO has agreed on a secret six-month plan for Ukraine. It’s a case of do or die by December. Either the Ukrainian forces, firing everything the NATO allies can give them — from US cluster munitions to Franco-English Storm Shadow missiles and German Leopard tanks […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
No Comments »

Translated from Colonel Cassad, with afterword by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Damage control Today it’s a little funny to see the bewilderment from reports of Putin’s meeting with Prigozhin, because, they say, Putin had called Prigozhin a rebel, and then meets with him.

by Editor - Monday, July 10th, 2023
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the current war with the US, the monetary policy of the Central Bank of Russia and of its governor, Elvira Nabiullina (lead image, right), has been criticized in the State Duma and in the domestic media for catastrophic negligence in exposing the Bank’s currency reserves to the US freeze […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 9th, 2023
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There’s no American anti-war movement in the Vietnam War, Syrian War or Afghan War sense of the term. That’s because there is a genuine US strategic interest at stake in fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, and further.  No comparable strategic stake existed in the earlier wars. The stake in […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 9th, 2023
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The calls have begun in Moscow, starting among the war blogs and battlefield reporters, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin’s conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
No Comments »

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 […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Friday, June 30, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was asked if, after the armed mutiny of the week before, he can give guarantees that Russia is stable and will not sink into turmoil? “We are not obliged to explain anything or make assurances,” Lavrov replied. “We are acting in […]

by Editor - Saturday, July 1st, 2023
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When Yevgeny Prigozhin (lead image, right) arrived at Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov, announcing to Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alexeyev that he was on his way Moscow to remove Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, Alexeyev told him “Go get them.” Prigozhin didn’t take […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
No Comments »

By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For more than twenty years – that’s from the beginning of President Vladimir Putin’s term in office – the residents of Chelyabinsk have believed in the romantic story of how truth would triumph over deceit, law over criminality,  in their battle to breathe the city air, drink the city water, […]

by Editor - Monday, June 26th, 2023
No Comments »

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, […]

by Editor - Saturday, June 24th, 2023
No Comments »