By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As democracy goes in states at war, in Russia  there is more of it —  faction fighting, public criticism,  media debate — about battlefield operations, wins and losses, than there is on the NATO side, in the US, Canada, Germany, France or England. By contrast, on the conduct of domestic economic […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There once was a genuine little prince whose story was a fable about the destruction of France and of civilization in Europe. Coming in April of this year, it will be eighty years since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince in safe haven on Long Island, New York.   The book […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The media audience has been moving fast in the opposite direction from the reporters and media proprietors. The majority of US audiences, for example, believes all sides of a story deserve to be reported in a balanced fashion. The journalists strongly disagree, however.  The younger these reporters are, the more they […]

by Editor - Monday, January 16th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The German generals are trying it again. That’s the Wolf’s Lair plot of July 20, 1944. To save themselves,  they are begging their counterparts in Washington, DC, to find a way to lose the war in the Ukraine as quickly as possible without losing the US empire in Germany. This means […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 15th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Australians aren’t the only democrats and allies of the US in the war of the worlds – that’s the one against Russia and China. Australian voters aren’t the only ones revealing they want to vote against the political choices they are offered at election time. But Australian voters are the only […]

by Editor - Friday, January 13th, 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) […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Angela Merkel (lead image),  the chancellor who destroyed the Christian Democratic party in German politics always hated Russia and President Vladimir Putin most of all. She concealed this for as long as she calculated she needed to preserve the votes of East Germany, German businesses and unions for her re-election. But […]

by Editor - Friday, December 30th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with If you pay government taxes, you have done your bit and contributed to the one hundred billion dollars which the US and its allies have spent on the Ukrainian battlefield since the year began. And if you are German, you are going to be paying one hundred billion Euros in next […]

by Editor - Monday, December 26th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Set your clocks forward from 1337 and from 1618. We are in Europe’s second Hundred Years War, and at the end of the first year of Europe’s second Thirty Years War. What we have to look forward to next year is an armistice on the Ukrainian battlefield, but not an end […]

by Editor - Friday, December 23rd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Montreal Express is the one Canadian export to the United States which Americans are afraid of. It’s the sub-zero cold wind which can stop cars, twist railroad tracks, cut power lines, cut off fingers and toes with frostbite and kill with hypothermia. On the calendar it starts to blow about […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
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