by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with After the Victory Day celebration later this week, President Vladimir Putin has agreed to hold a summit meeting with President Donald Trump. “The Americans have repeatedly asked for a summit and the Kremlin has finally decided,” according to a reliable Moscow source, “that there is no need to spurn the extended […]

by Editor - Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “When war and revolution come, remember the long years in which the storm was rising, and don’t blame the thunderbolt”.   That warning appeared in the Chicago Tribune in November 24, 1895. It was written by Clarence Darrow, then a young city lawyer working for railroads and also for unions in […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Retired US Army General Keith Kellogg, the White House negotiator with the Ukrainian-European alliance, announced yesterday that for the terms of peacemaking on the Ukrainian battlefield,  “the president has this one right on the money, and that’s where we want to go to.”    Right on the money is exactly where […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the new podcast with Nima Alkhorshid, here is the breaking news of the sides in the war changing the appearance of their negotiating positions, starting with President Donald Trump and the reply from President Vladimir Putin. Click to view: https://www.youtube.com/   As you listen, here is the  new evidence.

by Editor - Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Donald Trump has pulled a fast one against the US Constitution, if not quite and  not yet a coup d’état. “We have an idea of coups being external military assaults on the government,” a US constitutional law professor has reported. “But self-coups take place within the government, from within the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is not the comedy of the two Odessa conmen who travel across the Soviet Union trying to find a cache of jewellery hidden in twelve chairs, written in 1928. In the end, one murders the other, and then when he discovers the treasure has already been found and spent, he […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 27th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a good reason that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and it has nothing to do with heredity, dendrology, or gravity. The reason is that trees understand the further away the apple is dropped, the easier it is to steal. This is understood by the oligarchs who […]

by Editor - Saturday, April 26th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In Shelley’s most famous poem, the relics are described of Ozymandias, the ancient ruler with his “sneer of cold command” and his ill-fated power projection:   My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 24th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this new podcast the word that podcasters are afraid to say aloud, for fear of sounding “lunatic leftists” – Donald Trump’s phrase – is imperialism. Listen to the presentation with Nima Alkhorshid and Ray McGovern here and for the compelling evidence, read on.

by Editor - Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Yevgeny Krutikov is a former Russian military intelligence officer in the Balkans who now writes politico-military and intelligence analyses for Vzglyad.  Because of the intention of his  sources and their target audience, Krutikov’s papers are more a bellwether of formed policy thinking than influencer of policy decisions yet to be made. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
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