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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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week (October 2) at the Valdai Club conference in Sochi, President Vladimir Putin (lead image, left) responded to a question from an Iranian about the war in Gaza and President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza which had been released two days earlier in Washington.    “About Trump’s Gaza plan,” Putin replied, […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 5th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On June 30, 2021, during his Direct Line programme, President Vladimir Putin was asked what games he liked to play during his schooldays.  “I am tempted to say chess,” he replied, “but, unfortunately, it was not chess.”   Four years have gone by until his appearance yesterday at the Valdai Club, when the […]

by Editor - Friday, October 3rd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The clock at the Tass office in Moscow was reading 14:24 on Tuesday afternoon when Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, was reported as saying the following about the Gaza plan of President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and ex-prime minister Tony Blair: “Russia always supports and welcomes any steps […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
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