by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In today’s Dialogue Works podcast, Nima Alkhorshid steals a march on Tuesday’s talks between the Russian and American teams preparing for the summit meeting to follow between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.  We look at the US team – the megalomaniac, the Confederates, the Family, and the moneymen – […]

by Editor - Monday, February 17th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In our first appearance together on Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid opens the discussion of how Russia is taking its fight to President Donald Trump – the best enemy Russia has ever had  in the long US war because he is imperialist in ideology, pathological in mentality,  and altogether predictable. (He is […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The war to destroy Russia has been an evil in which the British, Americans, Germans and French have combined for more than a century now. In the present stage on the Ukrainian battlefield, every weapon and force fielded by the Anglo-Americans and their allies has been defeated; the Ukraine itself, territorially […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 16th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When is a politician’s state of being in two minds a sign of his trying to balance the views of competing constituencies or a sign of his indecisiveness, vacillation, weakness? Since the start of the Kursk invasion on August 6, the argument in Moscow over what happened before and followed in […]

by Editor - Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This F-16 flying above Lvov yesterday is not a Ukrainian operation against Russia, it is a NATO operation against Russia. In peacetime, this is as true as the sky is blue. But to say so in wartime is a crime – in Berlin, Ottawa, Warsaw. Wherever you are, once you  are […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A newly released national poll reveals that Russian public support for the Army and for President Vladimir Putin is growing. At the same time, the proportion of Russians in favour of expanded military operations is rising at the expense of those who favour negotiations. The  outcomes for negotiations acceptable to the […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 6th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Right now the Russian Electric War campaign in the Ukraine is targeting the last operating power generation plants and the transmission lines from the European Union replacing electricity which the Ukrainians can no longer generate for themselves. Microwave and mobile  telephone towers are being struck so that the country’s cell network […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Soldiers lay down smoke on the battlefield to conceal their movements, advancing or retreating, from the troops on the other side. In the US Army manuals for warfighting with smoke, there are four kinds for the battlefield (lead image) – obscuring smoke which is aimed at blinding the enemy so […]

by Editor - Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There’s no American anti-war movement in the Vietnam War, Syrian War or Afghan War sense of the term. That’s because there is a genuine US strategic interest at stake in fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, and further.  No comparable strategic stake existed in the earlier wars. The stake in […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 9th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In brief statements issued late last week in Moscow – their significance missed in the western press — President Vladimir Putin ordered a reality check of Russia’s war strategy. He then  answered himself by declaring the war will be over when no Ukrainian army will be left on the battlefield, […]

by Editor - Saturday, June 24th, 2023
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