by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with During the Oval Office meeting last Friday with Vladimir Zelensky, President Donald Trump said: “We gave you through this stupid president [Biden] $350 billion.”   The day before, in Trump’s two press conferences with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on February 27, Trump repeated this number three times over: “And then […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Several hours before Vladimir Zelensky arrived at the Oval Office, Nima Alkhorshid led the discussion of each of this week’s negotiations on the Ukraine war by President Donald Trump,  and by the only brain in the room, Vice President JD Vance. Click for the hour-long podcast here.   

by Editor - Friday, February 28th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In public, in front of the press, the plan of President Donald Trump on Thursday was to give British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer short shrift.  Starmer made it shorter.  TRUMP: “You’ve been terrific in our discussions. You are a very tough negotiator, however, and I’m not sure I like that, […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Shortly there will be a new summit meeting in India between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin. Just how shortly isn’t decided. India press reports claim the meeting will take place in March. The latest Russian Foreign Ministry statement indicates that preparations are under way for “the planned Russian-Indian […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s called the selfish herd reflex. In experiments with minnows, biologists have discovered that after removing the brain of a single minnow and dropping him back into the water, the brainless fish will move erratically, unable to sense the direction of his shoal, but drawing the other minnows to follow him […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this new podcast Nima Alkhorshid takes the record of the Riyadh talks between Russia and the US to the next stage.  What has the Russian side just learned of US capabilities, intentions, plans from the performances Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Steven Witkoff, representative […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was obvious from the slow descent of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stepping down the stairs from his aircraft, watching his shoes until they hit the ground in Riyadh, that the US side in Tuesday’s talks lacked a confident mandate from the White House for negotiations with the Russians.   […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Playing pirates on the high seas was once a bankrupt king’s scheme, then an empire schoolboy’s game — first for the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British, and now the MAGA Americans. From the Hollywood films he watched when he was in short pants, Donald Trump did not learn that […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last Chinese as clever, as profiteering, and as popular in the imagination of millions as DeepSeek was Dr Fu Manchu. “Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan,” wrote his creator Sax Rohmer, the alias of an Englishman:  “invest him […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 9th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Holding hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, US President Donald Trump has adopted genocide as his personal method for destroying the Arabs of Palestine. “Really very unlucky”, Trump declared the Palestinians have been for being the wrong people in the wrong place. “Being in its presence just has not […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
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