By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Howdy Doody was the most famous puppet in US history who was made of wood. He lived between 1937 and 1978.   He reappeared on a New York radio station this week in what the White House confirms was this dialogue:  “And Putin, when he looks at you, President Trump, he looks […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On September 3 President Donald Trump accused Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un of “conspir[ing] against the United States of America”.   Four days later on September 7, when asked by a reporter “Mr. President! Are you ready, are you ready to enter the second phase — Are you ready […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Can film impresarios make profits out of Russia warfighting films that demonize Vladimir Putin? Navalny the film won an Oscar, a Lola, a Bafta, and more. The size of the audience who have seen the film remains a secret of the producers, but the box office revenues the film has earned […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Listen to the groundbreaking discussion with Nima Alkhorshid today.   The full discussion paper of Vyacheslav Molotov to the Soviet Presidium, elaborating on the draft “General European Agreement on Collective Security in Europe” and raising the possibility of the USSR joining NATO was dated March 26, 1954. Read it in full […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When you sit down to read, watch,  or listen to  website, blog, Twitter, or podcast on the war against Russia, do you combine it with a glass of your favourite alcohol – or is that what you’d like but it’s forbidden on your jogging track, car, bus,  or train commute? The […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The three questions are: 1. Has any politician in the NATO Coalition of the Willing Warfighters against Russia lied more brazenly to win his domestic election than Mark Carney (not counting Vladimir  Zelensky)? 2. Has any politician in the Coalition calculated more mistakenly that spending more on the losing war in […]

by Editor - Monday, September 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Novichok is a military weapon, the deadliest chemical warfare agent developed by several armies around the world over the past thirty years,  which hasn’t killed anyone. Alexei Navalny is a Russian politician who over more than a decade nominated himself to be President Vladimir Putin’s main rival but whom just two […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 7th, 2025
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On August 24, 1991, Marshal Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev committed suicide. He had returned from his holiday at Sochi responding to the attempted removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. According to the reports of the time, he hanged himself in his Kremlin office, leaving behind a note. One version of what it said was: “I cannot […]

by Editor - Sunday, August 24th, 2025
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by Editor - Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Listen to today’s discussion with Nima Alkhorshid as we inspect the defences being built now against President Donald Trump’s ultimatums from the Ukraine to Iran, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, India, and China.    Before we start, though, ask whether there is any evidence in what Trump himself says to show he understands any negotiating […]

by Editor - Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
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