By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Sometimes in warfighting, there is a good, if concealed reason for doing something that looks purposeless and self-defeating.   For more than a year now, President Vladimir Putin has been publicly complimenting the First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS), Melania Trump (lead image, right), with his “appreciation for her humanitarian […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Rasheed Muhammad asks the questions; here are the answers, broadcast live on Wednesday 5pm Washington, DC time:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmC_MoTbwqo 

by Editor - Thursday, November 5th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Resilience,” declared Kirill Dmitriev, after delaying his Twitter stream until the defeat of President Donald Trump was too obvious to ignore, “is needed to protect Western civilization.”   He then explained Trump’s defeat as caused by barbarians, London ones. “British media worked hard to undermine President Trump and Republicans before the midterms […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is the possibility that during the exceptional telephone call President Vladimir Putin has just had with Mohsen Rezaei, head of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Putin told Rezaei that President Donald Trump is so obsessed with his personal impotence that rational deterrence is impossible with him. If Putin said […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is a good reason that the podcasters on the Ukraine war draw large audiences by repeating the same mistake and not correcting it. Delivering the certainty of war fact by podcasting the daily news from the battlefield several times a day is next to impossible. More certain is the process […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 1st, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A reconnaissance scout on the battlefield; a spy under cover on enemy territory; a G2 General Staff officer; a national security advisor; a politician running for election; or a journalist would be disbelieved, suspected of duplicity, even shot, if he or she made the same mistake so confidently, so loudly, so […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 29th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the Polymarket betting market which the Trump family plays as the house, the White House one  betting $300 million on itself,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is running neck and neck with Gavin Newson as the Democratic candidate for the presidential election in two years’ time. In the opinion polls, she is […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Bribery for President Donald Trump and his family has become such a political liability in US politics that, according to a new poll reported last week, “about 69 per cent of registered voters, and almost 50 per cent of those who voted for the president in 2024, said they were ‘very’ […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Just as drones have overtaken traditional infantry, armour and artillery weapons in land war, podcasts are transforming the warfighting weapons on the media battlefield. This is the first history of war and peace podcasting and of the big-click, fat-money, heavy-weapon podcast names.   Just in time, too, because the evidence uncovered […]

by Editor - Monday, October 26th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In Moscow last week (October 22), President Vladimir Putin (lead image, top left) told a reporter that he thinks the people of Europe can stop the war against Russia, and President Donald Trump too. “It has become obvious to everyone,” Putin said, “that it is impossible to defeat Russia on the […]

by Editor - Monday, October 26th, 2026
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