by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For the time being, there are no official photographs of the meeting in Moscow on Thursday evening at the Russian Foreign Ministry between Mikhail Bogdanov, the deputy foreign minister and chief Russian negotiator in the Middle East and Africa, and  Mohammed (Mukhameddov) Abdelsalam leading a  delegation of the Ansarallah government of […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 25th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When your enemy dupes you into compounding your mistakes, without achieving your military objectives, he is leading you into an escalation of force which will defeat you, sooner or later. Later is more costly, defeat more ruinous, so the Arab-Iranian alliance against Israel and the US is waging the long war […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Since the start of Israel’s genocide of Gaza, it has been the claim of the Israelis, their lawyers,  and allies that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, so they say that killing them all is neither a genocide nor a war crime. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said it in India […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The message delivered last week to French President Emmanuel Macron was a dramatic one: Never mind Israel throttling the Palestinians, Macron was told, the Houthis and their Arab and Iranian allies are capable of throttling France.   Macron shot the messenger. Bernard Émié  was fired last Wednesday, December 20, and Nicolas […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 26th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with From the minute after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the UK Maritime Trade Organisation (UKMTO) learned that the oil tanker MV Chem Pluto had been hit by an exploding drone in the Indian Ocean 1,600 kilometres east of the Red Sea and Yemen coast (lead image, left), they also knew why. […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 24th, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Iranian intelligence vessel, MV Behshad, at anchor in the Red Sea, is a honey trap intended to lure both the Israelis and US Navy into an attack, according to Russian and other sources.   The French and Spanish navies appear to anticipate or to know: they have announced they will […]

by Editor - Saturday, December 23rd, 2023
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A Russian military blog post posted on Thursday, December 21 at 11:33 Moscow time, has revealed the hitherto secret positions of all warships in the area which the Pentagon has announced for its OPERATION PROSPERITY GUARDIAN. The fresh data and the open map (lead image) were not available when yesterday’s report […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 21st, 2023
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By John Helmer  @bears_with In the war at sea between the US-NATO alliance and Russia, the Russian shipping company Sovcomflot says its future has never been better. The US State Department directing the sanctions campaign against Russian oil and gas exports says the future for the Russian trade is never again. Both of them are right.

by Editor - Monday, September 25th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The US-led sanctions war against Russian fossil fuel exports, especially oil, has been the best thing to have happened to Sovcomflot, Russia’s leading shipping company and operator of the world’s largest oil and gas tanker fleets. Revenues are up, earnings and profits are multiplying; Sovcomflot has never had so much […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 17th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Black Sea is a small body of water by international sea standards. It is so small that when the navies of the shore states go to war, the battles tend to be brief, hit-and-run affairs, like the skirmishes between the Romanians, Germans and Soviets in 1941-42, and between the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 14th, 2023
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