By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the US-led putsch in Kiev started the Ukrainian civil war in 2014, most Russians have believed the risk of war with the US and NATO was small. In the past two years, however, there has been a significant change in Russian thinking.   Asked to say if an armed conflict […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The current generation of Russian leaders was educated to believe that imperialist and capitalist systems like the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the United States make  rational and predictable calculations of their self-interest; and that they can count the costs and casualties of warmaking; especially when nuclear weapons are launched […]

by Editor - Monday, January 17th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Banging the table isn’t what a superpower does unless it’s super no more.  But for a superpower which doesn’t realise its own weakness, a banging war with Russia is no piece of cake. Right now, just days from the Russian deadline announced last week for the US and NATO to deliver […]

by Editor - Monday, January 17th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with What will be written on the US Government’s piece of paper since the Russian Government already knows – its intelligence services know, the Solar Winds hackers know  – what was not written on the papers which Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was reading at the Geneva talks with Deputy Foreign […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 13th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to understanding the Geneva round of talks between the Russian and US foreign ministries on Monday, it is helpful to read; and if that is unavailing, to ask official sources in a position to know  if and when they are talkative. Actions talk louder than words, especially in […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The three kinds of power which decide the fate of governments are force, fraud and subversion; that’s to say, arms, money, propaganda. For the time being – and that time is going to be slower and longer than you think — Russian policy has won in Kazakhstan with force, just as […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was seventy-nine years ago, in the month of January 1943,  that the Battle of Stalingrad ended in the defeat and capitulation of the German Sixth Army (lead image, left). It was, according to the British historian of the battle, Antony Beevor, “the most catastrophic defeat hitherto experienced in German history.” […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There can be no sating the hatred for Russia and Russians which is visceral for Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State; and foams at the mouth of Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary. They are the Blin-Needle gang.  They hate with the dedication and derangement of blood-feuding tribals.   They can’t […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nations don’t agree to the instrument of capitulation to their conquerors without turncoat  Quislings, Lavals, or Sadats to sign.   It happened in Russia, and for the first time on December 21, 2021, in front of the Stavka  and the assembled officers of the Russian armed forces, President Vladimir Putin said so. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It is now one year and one month since there was a direct contact with Russia proving that either Sergei Skripal or Yulia Skripal, or both, are still alive. That was an hour-long telephone call from Yulia Skripal to her cousin Viktoria Skripal on November 21, 2020.   There has been […]

by Editor - Monday, December 20th, 2021
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