By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When I was ten years old, I was tall for my age and had an unusually powerful first serve for a boy.    After observing me hit a few practice balls, a famous international tennis star turned coach told my mother that if she handed me over to him every day […]

by Editor - Monday, July 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In wars like the present one, politics on the home front cannot be permitted to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In the US and NATO campaign, the Russian oligarchs and their businesses are targets and also weapons of the plan for regime change in the Kremlin. What role they […]

by Editor - Monday, July 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Next year it will be four hundred years since the Amboyna Massacre of March 9, 1623. The British won’t be memorializing their countrymen’s killings by the Dutch, nor the Dutch celebrating one of the last gasps of their Asian empire. They are now allies in the fabrication of reasons for killing […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 7th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Philip Short, a journalist from the BBC, has published a new book which claims to be a biography of Vladimir Putin. It isn’t. What it is instead is a biography of one hundred and twenty-three westerners — what they claim to know about Russia’s leader  and what for commercial motive, reason […]

by Editor - Monday, July 4th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is a right way and a wrong way to understand how the war against the West is being fought on the Russian home front. The wrong way is to read the Anglo-American media, their stay-behind correspondents in Moscow, and their aggregators in Washington, DC.   The right way is to […]

by Editor - Friday, July 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Poles have always had a serious problem with their neighbours.   They have the Germans on their western flank, the Russians on their eastern flank, and inside their borders there used to be the Jews, but now there are the Ukrainians. In September 1939 there were about 3.3 million Polish […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to bulldogs fighting under a rug Winston Churchill thought they were Russians. Little did he know about Canadians in Ottawa. The chief dogs in this fight are Trevor Cadieu and Chrystia Freeland (lead image, right).  Cadieu is a lieutenant general who specialises in planning armoured operations against the […]

by Editor - Sunday, June 26th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the rest of the world it is known as the cultural cringe. In Russia the wish to be loved by Americans is known as liberal reform. In the very first paragraph of a new book called “Collapse: the Fall of the Soviet Union”, the author, Vladislav Zubok – the name […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On March 15 the British Government announced it is imposing a ban on exports to Russia of “high-end luxury goods”. According to the official press release, “the measures will cause maximum harm to Putin’s war machine while minimising the impact on UK businesses as G7 leaders unite to unleash a fresh […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On June 13, for the first time since the Russian military operation began in the Ukraine, a detailed Russian intelligence assessment has been published in Moscow of Polish strategy for the future of Ukraine. This follows several weeks of brief statements by Russian security and intelligence officials claiming the government in […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
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