by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a bedrock of Russian public opinion on how the war in the Ukraine should end.  There is also a bedrock of American public opinion on whether President Donald Trump is to be believed when he speaks of ending the war under the new American “Golden Dome” of peace with […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with How to make losing the war in the Ukraine look like a win – this is President Donald Trump’s purpose in presenting himself and his administration as in favour of peace and of cashback to the United States. If he succeeds, he won’t appear to be running away from the battlefield, […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this unique discussion held yesterday, two senior Indian strategists spell out how they see the current European and US debate over how the Ukraine war may end.   Indian Army Brigadier (retired) Arun Saghal is one of the leading intelligence analysts in India. With a PhD from Allahabad University, he was […]

by Editor - Monday, March 3rd, 2025
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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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