by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with NATO infantry operations veteran Major (retd) Mark Takacs (lead image) has published an  animated map analysis of the battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces around Sudzha, in the Kursk region, between March 5 and 14. Nothing comparable has been reported by the Russian military bloggers; their US copyists; or the Ukrainian and […]

by Editor - Monday, March 17th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On December 17, 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry proposed two treaties of non-aggression and mutual assured security to stop the US and NATO alliance’s road to war against Russia. This was the draft pact with the US; this was the draft pact with NATO.  This is how to read them.   […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Compos mentis was missing in the Oval Office on Monday morning. French President Emmanuel Macron recognized it, and was so pleased, he repeatedly said: “Thank you, dear Donald”. The answers to press questions given by President Donald Trump, sitting beside Macron, revealed that Trump doesn’t understand what end-of-war terms President Vladimir […]

by Editor - Monday, February 24th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On arriving at the White House, it’s the first rule of American politics for the new president to overestimate his power, and for his staff and appointees to confer that exaggeration upon themselves. The second rule for these novices and freshmen is to declare as much of this power as possible […]

by Editor - Friday, February 14th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There has never been a transition between US presidential administrations which has been so replete with new Washington-directed violence across the world. That’s to say, the escalation of wars already under way and the instigation of new ones to the furthest limits of the US empire’s reach. As the Pentagon war-gaming […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In remarks to Russian journalists on Thursday evening, President Vladimir Putin confirmed that missile and drone strikes against the Ukraine’s military infrastructure and the electricity grid  carried out on Thursday,  and also earlier in the week, are the retaliation the Defense Ministry foreshadowed  for the November 23-25 ATACMS strikes on Kursk. […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 28th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Vladimir Putin has announced that serial production of the new Oreshnik hypersonic, intermediate range, 36-warhead missile has commenced. He made this announcement at a special public meeting with Defense Ministry officials in the Kremlin on Friday, November 22. “There are no means of countering such a missile; no means of […]

by Editor - Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Sunday afternoon the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that a massive strike of air and sea-launched missiles and drones have struck and destroyed parts of the Ukrainian electricity grid in the western regions of the country, as well as in Odessa and Nikolaev in the southeast.   The Mukachevo interconnector station […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This week’s announcements of emergency electricity rationing and scheduled power supply cuts in the farwestern Ukrainian regions of Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathia indicate that pinpoint drone targeting by the Russian General Staff  is a new stage in the electric war since President Vladimir Putin put on pause long-range missile attacks on […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For more than two months now, President Vladimir Putin’s orders to the General Staff have been to shorten the range of the electric war campaign to the area east of Kiev and the Dnieper River,  and west of the advancing line of Russian forces. The General Staff have responded by limiting […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
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