By Olga Samofalova, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When Ursula von der Leyen (lead image) was nominated in 2019 to be Germany’s candidate to lead the European Commission, German politicians from her own party privately described her as too stupid and potentially too corrupt to be risked inside Germany during the political succession […]

by Editor - Friday, December 2nd, 2022
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By Yevgeny Krutikov, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The problem of interpreting the war from the Russian point of view is that the Russian military does not signal its punches, make idle threats, believe its own propaganda, or make money on click bait. The Stavka never leaks.   By contrast, Russian open-source commentators […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with William Browder has been a spokesman for making war on Russia for seventeen years, ever since he was evicted from the country for running investment frauds. The history of those frauds had run for an earlier decade. Lucy Komisar is the US journalist and financial fraud analyst who has written the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Not  One Inch” is the title of a new book by American historian Mary Sarotte after the notorious promise which US Secretary of State James Baker (lead image, 2nd from right) gave Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, and which now has come to its final test on the battlefields of […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with How can the English retain their sense of humour, let alone make war on Russia, when their country – I mean England, not Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, or Ulster – is the laughingstock of the world? The answer is not to receive the message. That’s Roger for Receive — military radio jargon […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week on October 19 the US Navy announced that “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla [lead image, lower right] , commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia [top], a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the history of the wars in Europe, and the wars in Asia, there has never been a combination like the present one. When the Special Military Operation began on February 24, the Russian forces at the western border were counted by the western media at about 190,000; roughly half then […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 23rd, 2022
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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 […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
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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 […]

by Editor - Monday, October 17th, 2022
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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 […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 16th, 2022
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