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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In war, force and money do the talking on the ground. Not talk in the air. On the electric battlefield in the Ukraine, the targeting of Russian attacks is being calculated to cut the command and control links between the Galician capitals of Lvov and Kiev west of the Dnieper River […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with General Vo Nguyen Giap (lead image, right) is mentioned in passing in Sir Lawrence Freedman’s (left) brand-new manual from London on how to fight wars. The reason is that the Vietnamese general defeated both the French and the US armies. Noone has done that except the Russian Army, and not in […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Repeating lies over and over makes old-fashioned Joseph Goebbels-type propaganda. Repeating lies, then contradicting them; moving them from one government-paid think-tank to another; footnoting a new lie to an older version; quoting policemen and gangsters saying fatuities; adding slang and the words of pop songs—this is still Goebbels-type but  stretched out […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Two detailed reports appeared in Moscow yesterday describing precisely how the attack on the Crimean Bridge on October 8 was organised and carried out. The source is the Federal Security Service (FSB), with supporting evidence from the Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, and Armenia, including at least five eye-witnesses and participants, plus […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Least said, soonest mended.” Uriah Heep, one of Charles Dickens’ evilest characters, said it to silence his mother who was about to expose him. Dickens made sure his readers didn’t miss the point. “Though I had long known that his servility was false, and all his pretences knavish and hollow, I […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow, and Matt Ehret, Montreal  @bears_with In this Canadian Patriot Podcast, Matt Ehret asks the questions as the discussion unpicks the tangles of the war in Europe, starting with the revival of Galician race hatred and the Nazi German objectives of World War II, now resuscitated as Canadian state policy by Deputy Prime […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the first time since the war against Russia began in the Ukraine eight years ago, the German government has not blamed Moscow (repeat not blamed Moscow) for coordinated acts of sabotage on Sunday, which the German secret services say they are investigating. The Germans also say they are investigating, and have […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the propaganda war the Ukrainian-supplied western media, led by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, have just announced the discovery of a box of gold teeth “in a suspected [sic] Russian torture chamber, prompting claims [sic] they were wrenched from victims [sic] of President Putin’s occupying forces in Kharkov [sic].”   They are […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Following the joint US-Polish military attack on the Nord Stream pipelines off Bornholm Island in the Baltic, Poland has announced it is escalating the war in Europe with an announcement by President Andrzej Duda. Speaking under a NATO flag in a Warsaw press interview,   Duda announced: “the problem is that we […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Belgians like to speak of themselves as the victims when the great powers of Europe go to war. They were when the Germans invaded in 1914 and 1940. But since 2014 when the Belgian government has been repeating it is gung-ho for the war with Russia, there has been no […]