By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with No one in their right mind puts himself or herself in a zugzwang. Zugzwang is the German word which has become  the name in all languages for the well-known position in politics, warfare, and games of chess which is the last one before capitulation.  Literally, it means “being forced to move”. […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The third round of Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Istanbul came and went in just one hour, and the Russian plan to continue the meeting on Thursday was dropped.   A face-to-face meeting between the two delegation heads, Vladimir Medinsky for Russia, Rustem Umerov for the Ukraine, was held before the plenary session; it […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 24th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In following up the last report,  new information has become available on the brain scanning which was conducted on Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, following an attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. This is despite a comprehensive and long lasting blackout which began with the US Secret Service and other US […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Trump diagnosis is that the clinical symptoms of madness are accelerating. Ergo, time is short for the Kremlin to take advantage. Very short. The Pearl Harbour problem is that the intelligence of the Japanese plan of attack on the US Navy fleet at Pearl Harbour in December 1941 was very […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The qutab is an exceptional meat pie in a world that’s full of meat pies. That’s because it is the national meat pie of Azerbaijan, and because there is nothing quite like it outside the Azeri borders or culture.    It is baked with a thin flatbread which is stuffed with […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 20th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As President Donald Trump got off his helicopter on Tuesday afternoon, he was asked by a reporter about his threat to impose 100% secondary trade sanctions if President Vladimir Putin doesn’t capitulate on US terms for ending the Ukraine war within fifty days. “Question: Are you concerned that uh, secondary tariffs […]

by Editor - Friday, July 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with About President Donald Trump, certifiable maniac isn’t an expletive – it’s a clinical diagnosis. In the neurological and psychiatric evidence that has been accumulating about Trump over many years,  there is the medical history of Alzheimer’s Disease which runs in his family: his father was first diagnosed at age 86 and died […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is only one way to interpret the meaning of the carefully scripted, rehearsed, memorized , sloganized, and repeated words which President Donald Trump announced in his Monday meeting with Mark Rutte, the Dutch ex-prime minister and now Secretary-General of NATO. They mean the opposite of what he thinks he is […]

by Editor - Monday, July 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Following their 60-minute meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (July 10), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced the only new points he made with Secretary of State Marco Rubio are two he has made before, often.  These were “the resumption of direct flights [between Russia and the US] and continued efforts to […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Vladimir Putin’s speech to the BRICS summit session in Rio de Janeiro this week (July 6) was brief.  Unusually so for Putin’s public speeches, but not so for his speeches to the BRICS summit in earlier years. This time he took 810 words (Kremlin English version; 710 in the Russian). […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 10th, 2025
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