By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the original story of The Riddle of the Sands, two Englishmen sailing a yacht in the Frisian islands of the North Sea discover evidence of German military preparations to go to war and invade England. That was the plot of Erskine Childers’s novel of 1903, based on his yachting […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 12th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of the wars of the world, it almost never happens that the military strategy of a fighting state directs and revolutionizes the political strategy, and not the other way round —  as  aspiring politicians, military officers and policemen are taught by the venerable Sun Tzu and Carl […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 5th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Two Englishmen, Timothy Garton Ash (lead image, left) and Mark Leonard (right),  and Ivan Krastev (centre), a Bulgarian, claim to have discovered from opinion polls they conducted in nine European Union (EU) countries during January that “since Russia’s war on Ukraine began, the US and its European allies have regained their […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The brainwashing of the peoples of the NATO alliance is working much better with the British than the Americans. For the time being, Russia-hating is a peculiarly English phenomenon. Almost half the Americans polled a month ago said they did not believe Russia was an adversary with whom the US is […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 26th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the first time in the century of US warfare against Russia, a sitting US president has requested and received a formal ceasefire and  safe conduct  pledge (propusk) from the Kremlin in order for him to visit a third country. President Vladimir Putin signed his authorization for the pass before it […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Dutch Government didn’t intend to close its investigation of the MH17 shoot-down with the public report and press conference of the Joint Investigation Team on February 8.  That was a curtain raiser. It is definitely not the final curtain.   The Dutch are continuing their European Court of Human Rights […]

by Editor - Monday, February 20th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow, and George Eliason, Donetsk  @bears_with Seymour Hersh, a US journalist, has just broadcast his defence of a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to sabotage President Joseph Biden’s re-election campaign before it gets under way. In a German video podcast from Germany, Hersh has made a string of telltale mistakes of […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 19th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Kinetic lesson learning is a euphemism for what military and political commanders learn from mistakes, miscalculations, misjudgements, and misfortunes – their own, and their adversary’s. Kinetic is the newspeak; lesson learning, if it happens, is the reality. A NATO military veteran has reviewed General P.R. Shankar’s detailed assessments of the Ukrainian […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
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P.R. Shankar, Madras, with John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Indian Army has had more warfighting experience than the other world Powers on battlefields similar to the conditions of the Russian Special Military Operation against the NATO lines in the Ukraine. The Indian generals have also won more victories than the others with the combination of heavy artillery, […]

by Editor - Monday, February 13th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a single strike with a new naval weapon on Friday (lead image, left)  Russian forces have stopped the French plan to deliver tanks to the Ukrainian battlefront; triggered the replacement of Moldova’s prime minister; and tightened the siege on Odessa, accelerating the choice the city residents will make between Kiev […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 12th, 2023
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