by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), General Charles Brown (lead image, right), has just revealed by press leak that he and the chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, had talked by telephone last week, on November 27, and agreed not to disclose the contents […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The damage assessments of yesterday’s November 28 electric war strikes against targets across the Ukraine spell the countrywide collapse of electricity supply before January 20, when the new Trump Administration will take office. By then, the Russian General Staff will have deprived Keith Kellogg, the retired US Army general newly appointed […]

by Editor - Friday, November 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Tuesday afternoon, November 26, the Russian Defense Ministry issued an unusual bulletin revealing that since the Oreshnik strike on November 21, the US had launched two ATACMS  attacks across the Ukrainian border on Russian military targets in the Kursk region. The first of these on an S-400 air defence unit […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is the comic book version of what really happened, as revealed by the clumsiest judge in  England – Anthony Hughes (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley, lead image, right). Even if all the evidence presented to Hughes and already endorsed by him is true – on the record of six and […]

by Editor - Friday, November 22nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In politics — the Kremlin is no exception — politicians don’t mean what they say.  In gardening, the plants always mean what they say. Gardeners, obliged to record what that is, are more likely than politicians to tell the truth. In the records of Russian politicians since the Bolshevik Revolution, only […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Sunday afternoon the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that a massive strike of air and sea-launched missiles and drones have struck and destroyed parts of the Ukrainian electricity grid in the western regions of the country, as well as in Odessa and Nikolaev in the southeast.   The Mukachevo interconnector station […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between wishful thinking and delusional thinking in normal life, there can be the psychiatrist’s couch and prescription of Prozac capsules swallowed once a day.   In politics – Russian politics are no exception – there can be media debate so that in between plan, action, and outcome it is possible to […]

by Editor - Monday, November 11th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Vladimir Putin, September 5, 2024: “As for my preferences, it is not up to us to decide. After all, the American people will have to make their own choice. As I have already said, we favoured Mr Biden, the current President, but they took him out of the race. That said, […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 10th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with To reflect upon, today’s Sabbath reading comes from two Russian texts. One was a prepared script followed by impromptu elaboration which took place in Sochi on November 7. The second text followed in Moscow after the notorious football match in Amsterdam which happened later on the same day. The first reading […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 10th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Government’s narrative that Russian military agents, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, used Novichok in Salisbury in March 2018 continues to collapse. A secret chemical warfare agent revealed last week that two  tests for Novichok, using special machines provided by the Porton Down chemical warfare laboratory,  failed to confirm […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
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