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 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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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 If the US Government, including the President and the Pentagon, have been telling the truth, the Chinese balloon incursion over US territory for a week has proved to be one of the most effective spy missions ever attempted against US air and missile defences in recent memory.  If the Chinese Government […]

by Editor - Monday, February 6th, 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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