By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump began rigging his latest attempt  to win the Nobel Peace Prize in January 2024, a year before the Norwegian Prize Committee closed the 2025 prize nominations on January 31. That was also eleven months before Trump was elected president to begin the peacemaking streak which he currently lists as […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian public opinion isn’t well understood in the US because Russian opinion changes with the news from the Ukraine battlefield and from President Donald Trump’s (lead image, right) warmaking elsewhere; because there are more Americans who want to be loved by Russians than there are Russians who want to be loved […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump thought he had gotten the deal terms and the cover story right, and also the prize for himself (the Nobel Peace Prize ). The deal was that under cover of an authorized leak to the press from Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eldridge Colby, that the US was […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 6th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the hour-long telephone call on Thursday (July 3) between the presidents of Russia and the United States, something President Vladimir Putin said, and also didn’t say, got up President Donald Trump’s nose.

by Editor - Friday, July 4th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump has just won the Vietnam War – except that he’s too modest to declare it a victory over Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, or claim theirs was a war against Vietnam which would never have happened if he had been president. In the first place, Trump’s predecessors would […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump has said he believes he can use nuclear weapons to destroy his enemy’s forces for defending itself, including the enemy’s capacity for deterrence by nuclear counter-attack. This is Trump’s new doctrine of “total obliteration”. It is US shock and awe tipped over the nuclear threshold; it is American […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When Russia’s master icon painters depicted the male and female faces which are sacred in the Russian Orthodox Church, the noses were always columnar — a long, narrow bridge without curvature – ending in a pointed tip; the lips were exactly as wide as the nostrils on either side of the […]

by Editor - Monday, June 30th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In warfighting against Russia’s enemies, President Vladimir Putin makes mistakes. He admits as much. Unequalled among the current leaders of the enemy states, he has the capability to correct his mistakes quickly. That’s one of the reasons for his unequalled domestic voter support. Also, Putin is an attentive listener; he brooks […]

by Editor - Friday, June 27th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Why do so many CIA and MI6 officers (retired) know and say so much about the damage Israel and the US have inflicted on Iran since they began their war on June 13, but so little about the damage Iran has inflicted on Israel (lead image)? “As you know,” President Donald […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump and the Israelis cannot accept that in this round of the war against Iran, they are losing escalation control. Trump and the NATO allies will not accept that this is what Russia is taking from them on the Ukrainian battlefield. In the history of the world it has […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
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