By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This is the story of how recent calculations by President Donald Trump, Vladimir Zelensky, and President Vladimir Putin have come up short more quickly than they were expecting. It’s a short story — Trump’s is the shortest of the three. Trump and Zelensky have believed that the war which they, their […]

by Editor - Monday, October 19th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For three consecutive days last week, October 5-7, specially equipped intelligence-gathering aircraft of the Swedish Air Force and the US Army flew multiple missions over the southern area of the Black Sea, taking off from bases in Bucharest and Constanta, Romania, and concentrating on the Bulgarian coastline and territorial waters to […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The scheme which Kirill Dmitriev (lead image centre), the Kremlin’s negotiator for American money-making schemes, has been planning with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner for Russian diesel to be traded to the US, relieved of sanctions,  in exchange for  US delivery of Vladimir Zelinsky’s agreement to Russian end-of-war terms,  has failed. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
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https://www.outsidetbox.com/post/2018/10/29/samir-tankertrackerscom Source: https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2109216468055257129  Source: https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2109512855351410954  The vessel’s management company, Minerva Maritime, was asked today to confirm whether the cargo the Minerva Zen is discharging is diesel or liquid fertilizer.The company answered through Navigate Response, the press representative for Minerva Marine. According to Katerina Skourtanioti, the Minerva Zen “was transporting a liquid fertiliser cargo, urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) and not diesel.” 

by Editor - Monday, October 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There has been breaking news since the podcasts with Dimitri Lascaris and Nima Alkhorshid analysing the telephone agreement on Russian diesel shipments to the US between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. The diesel dealmaking had been under way for at least three weeks before the terms reached Putin and […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 11th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The telephone call which President Donald Trump has been trying to make to President Vladimir Putin since the morning of October 7, and which the Kremlin spokesman refused to confirm each day since,  was such a surprise when it happened on Friday evening, the Kremlin kept it secret from the Russian […]

by Editor - Friday, October 9th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Not so long ago, godfearing Russians believed that if they saw a coin lying on the footpath, they should step over it and not look back because it would be bad luck to pick it up. This was not a primitive superstition. It is a rational calculation, my wife Tatiana explained, […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 8th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the time of your labour is converted into the profit of the capital which employs you, you belong to the working class. You don’t get time off for vacation. No money. All Russians know this because it was one of the foundation ideas of the communist party state known as […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is nothing phoney about this stage of the permanent war against Russia, Iran, China, and Cuba, not if you are under the US empire’s guns at the front, in the rear, or on the high seas. At this stage there is good news to report, and also some not so […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the memory of nations, a very special curse is reserved for the ruler who wanted peace not war;   but was trapped by his enemies, not only into fighting on his enemies’ terms and timetable, but also into losing the war, and then losing the verdict of history of who was […]

by Editor - Monday, October 5th, 2026
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