By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Vladimir Putin has given instructions to accept the Trump Administration’s demand that in exchange for lifting sanctions against Russia, US capital must return to Russia on preferential terms as soon as possible. For the new round of negotiations in Geneva later this week, Putin has replaced Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 15th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with 1. Jeffrey Epstein’s failure to develop any business or political connection to the Kremlin or Russian oligarchs.2. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s open break with Kirill Dmitriev’s negotiating strategy with the US; indirect criticism of President Vladimir Putin.3.Escalation of the US war at sea against Russian oil trade, sea lanes, and tankers, […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Made public for all to see, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has just declared that escalation of the US war at sea against Russia’s trade routes and shipping fleets is the “opposite” of the Anchorage formula which President Vladimir Putin and his spokesman insist is still “fundamental [to] move the settlement […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When you are the fastest growing tree on the street, every dog in the neighbourhood will try to lift his leg on you. When the tree is Indian, the American dogs express their resentment. They are Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Howard Lutnick, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, and Stephen Miller. They also […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow, with Sahar Dadjoo, Teheran  @bears_with As tensions persist between Iran and the United States amid intensified military signaling and renewed talk of negotiations, critical questions remain about Washington’s real strategy and the risk of a broader regional conflict. In this context, Tehran Times spoke with John Helmer, a veteran journalist and geopolitical […]

by Editor - Friday, February 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In Jeffrey Epstein’s decade between 2009 and 2019 he tried ever so hard to meet the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. That’s to say, between Epstein’s release from prison on his Florida state conviction and sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution and for soliciting a prostitute, and then his re-arrest […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Three out of four Russians expect victory in the Ukraine war. Even more of them trust the Russian Army to achieve it – the sooner the better, the voters think. Four out of ten Russians believe that the Special Military Operation will end this year; in the same proportion, they also […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The yanko and jingo-centric podcasters are being overtaken by the political realism of events. This is forcing a change of calculation in how the apparently powerless can and do defeat the apparently omnipotent without beating their chests, flogging their backs, or putting their adversaries’ heads in baskets. Bribery of President Donald […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nuri al-Said, the long-serving but ill-fated Iraqi prime minister of the 1940s and 1950s, once said that you can rent an Arab but you can’t buy him. On July 15, 1958, he ended up shot by an Iraqi Army coup, buried, dug up, and his corpse mutilated as it was dragged […]

by Editor - Monday, February 2nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Realism in politics is M +V+ B = P. That’s to say: Money plus Votes plus Bullets equal Power.  The equation is simple arithmetic – everyone can count.   But almost everyone can count on missing one or more of the variables —  usually all three of them —  so power is very […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 1st, 2026
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