by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with American, British and Canadian troops in NATO’s forward bases in Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania are being told to prepare for deployment to the Ukraine next year. They are also being warned to expect to fight under heavy Russian artillery, missile, guided bomb, and drone strikes. This message is also intended to […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 7th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was the English writer G.K. Chesterton who remarked that “compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.” In the current war against Russian grain, less than half […]

by Editor - Monday, June 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A little bird has materialized to sing that the record of the German generals discussing their plan to attack Russian targets with the Taurus missile was intercepted and leaked to the Russians by the Americans. A big bird, actually. The telephone conference of German Luftwaffe chief General Ingo Gerhartz (lead image, left), […]

by Editor - Friday, March 15th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s near-certain that no Russian general, nor member of the Stavka,  nor President Vladimir Putin has read Biggles.* If one of them had, he would accept that now, after a long time of forgetfulness, the Germans are again the enemy who can and must be defeated by Biggles or his successors […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is how the war in the Ukraine doesn’t end, not for the Germans and the Poles. So long as they can, they plan to steal or destroy Russian assets west of what used to be Kievan  Ukraine; and mobilize the US military bases in both countries to reinforce and defend […]

by Editor - Monday, February 19th, 2024
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the advertising Hall of Fame, three of the all-time winning slogans are “Just do it”; “Where’s the beef?”; and  “Good to the last drop”.   Three Ukrainian army soldiers and a military press officer from Kiev  have pressed all three on the Financial Times of London, and they just […]

by Editor - Friday, July 28th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Until June 24 the combined air forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are conducting their largest operation against Russia in the 74-year history of the alliance. The plan has been to disguise F-16 fighter jets as if they are piloted by Ukrainians, and pretend they are  launched from […]

by Editor - Saturday, June 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The longest lasting of the false-flag operations conducted against Russia since the Special Military Operation started in February 2022 has been flying the flag of the United Nations (UN). The chief flag-bearer has been the Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, a Portuguese (lead image, left); he has manipulated, plotted, […]

by Editor - Monday, June 5th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a month it will be three hundred and fourteen years precisely since the Swedes lost their king, their generals, their soldiers, and their empire when Tsar Peter the Great and the Russian army defeated them at the Battle of Poltava (lead image). That battle of July 8, 1709, is […]

by Editor - Sunday, June 4th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Pundits, journalists and public intellectuals don’t commit suicide for professional reasons. And not since Diogenes, the Cynic of Athens, have they opted to live in a barrel, keep the company of dogs, and urinate on their audience. Even among the most progressive of current journalists, it’s difficult for them not […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 2nd, 2023
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