By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Seymour Hersh’s (lead image) report on President Joseph Biden’s decision to destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines on the Baltic seabed on September 26, 2022, and the involvement of the US Navy in preparing the explosives, has been based on a single anonymous US source with what Hersh calls “direct knowledge […]

by Editor - Friday, February 10th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Paper tiger German tanks, delivered on the insistence of lame-duck Ukrainian politicians, will become sitting ducks on the battlefield, while the economic front of the war against Russia is looking more and more like the story of over-confidence and guile as told by Uncle Remus to generations of American children. That’s […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is nothing like facing the gun muzzles of the Germans, British and Americans to teach Russians what to do to correct their past mistakes.  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be the last US bank in the world to admit as much. Nor would the IMF concede that everything it […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Russian Foreign Ministry has dismissed proposals issued this week in Washington by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Under Secretary, Victoria Nuland. Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova has confirmed that Russia’s military plan for the Ukraine will not be interrupted or delayed.  “It is not necessary to talk about what […]

by Editor - Saturday, January 28th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Not since James Forrestal jumped off the sixteenth floor of a US Navy hospital in 1949,  has a US cabinet secretary displayed more psychopathological symptoms than Antony Blinken, the current Secretary of State.   Can Blinken’s announcement this week of terms for ending the Ukraine war be believed in a US military […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 26th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with David Ignatius (lead image, left) has been a career-long mouthpiece for the US State Department. He has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) to convey an urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council,  and the General Staff in Moscow. For the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Even Leonardo da Vinci didn’t think it was possible. A perpetual motion machine, that is, whose construction had been attempted by Indian fakirs for five hundred years before a handful of medieval European conmen got the idea. Then Leonardo  tried knocking it on its head: “O ye seekers after perpetual motion,” […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A fresh German general has issued a public warning that the war on the Ukrainian battlefield by the US and NATO armies is lost, and that Germany will be lost next if the advance of the Russian forces toward Kiev and Lvov isn’t halted quickly by an armistice, partition and demilitarization […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As democracy goes in states at war, in Russia  there is more of it —  faction fighting, public criticism,  media debate — about battlefield operations, wins and losses, than there is on the NATO side, in the US, Canada, Germany, France or England. By contrast, on the conduct of domestic economic […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The German generals are trying it again. That’s the Wolf’s Lair plot of July 20, 1944. To save themselves,  they are begging their counterparts in Washington, DC, to find a way to lose the war in the Ukraine as quickly as possible without losing the US empire in Germany. This means […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 15th, 2023
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