by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the Foreign Ministry’s new paper for the State Department, delivered on Thursday afternoon and then published on the Ministry website,   there is a restatement of the Russian proposals for security in Europe which the US refuses to address. There is also nothing new in the threat: “In the absence of […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 17th, 2022
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Sound familiar? Without the direct knowledge, say-so, or approval of the ailing US President, a group of senior Washington officials plan in top secrecy to persuade Germany to recover all the eastern European territories which the German Army took in World War II – including Austria, the Czech Sudetenland, the Polish […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 13th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A soldier who lays a booby trap for his adversary thinks him fool enough to be tricked or lured to his own death. He thinks his enemy is inferior and deserves death. He hates him. The German expression for war planned and executed like this is rassenkampf, race war. The German generals […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 6th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Hatred of the Russian race and Russophobia are more than a thousand years old in Europe – long enough for everyone nowadays to realise there’s no cure for them.  At least not by rational persuasion, not by words.  Remission by force of arms is another matter altogether. A Swiss history of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Banging the table isn’t what a superpower does unless it’s super no more.  But for a superpower which doesn’t realise its own weakness, a banging war with Russia is no piece of cake. Right now, just days from the Russian deadline announced last week for the US and NATO to deliver […]

by Editor - Monday, January 17th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with What will be written on the US Government’s piece of paper since the Russian Government already knows – its intelligence services know, the Solar Winds hackers know  – what was not written on the papers which Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was reading at the Geneva talks with Deputy Foreign […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 13th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to understanding the Geneva round of talks between the Russian and US foreign ministries on Monday, it is helpful to read; and if that is unavailing, to ask official sources in a position to know  if and when they are talkative. Actions talk louder than words, especially in […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with How to stop the US provocations aimed at pushing Russia to go to war in the Ukraine, and at claiming credit for deterring Russian from doing so? Impossible – the US cannot be stopped. But Germany, the country most likely to suffer the direct effects of war in the Ukraine, can […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 19th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Behind the penetration-proof walls and the top-secret record of what was said, if the small print of their communiqués is the truth, President Joseph Biden has agreed to reduce the risk of US attack on Russia, and President Vladimir Putin to reduce the risk of Russian attack on Ukraine. “A lot […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Once upon a time, before the Blin-Noodle gang had been born; when their grandparents were still Ukrainians; and before the gang was pushing its protégés to make war on Russia from behind a shield of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk, there was an American humourist named James Thurber. He was the […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
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