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 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 A leading Ukrainian government official has admitted that a demilitarized zone (lead image, left) to divide the battlefield, protect the Russian east of the country from the US and NATO long-range assault, and partition Ukraine is in negotiation. “’We are currently being offered the Korean scenario,” Alexei Danilov (lead image, right) […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Angela Merkel (lead image),  the chancellor who destroyed the Christian Democratic party in German politics always hated Russia and President Vladimir Putin most of all. She concealed this for as long as she calculated she needed to preserve the votes of East Germany, German businesses and unions for her re-election. But […]

by Editor - Friday, December 30th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch who is under British and European Union sanctions, is lobbying in Washington for an early peace deal with the Ukraine. According to a document Abramovich has filed through the New York law firm of Kobre & Kim, Abramovich has told the US Department of Justice (DOJ) […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Until capitulation in war, the winning side is the one that learns fastest. The loser is the slowpoke. In Washington, the turnover of staff inside President Biden’s White House has been so rapid, the learning process for the new staff has been almost as retarded as the incapacity to learn has […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “Not  One Inch” is the title of a new book by American historian Mary Sarotte after the notorious promise which US Secretary of State James Baker (lead image, 2nd from right) gave Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, and which now has come to its final test on the battlefields of […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The US Army’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has been firing several hundred million dollars’ worth of cyber warheads at Russian targets from its headquarters at MacDill Airforce Base in Florida. They have all been duds. The weapons, the source, and their failure to strike effectively have been exposed in a new […]

by Editor - Monday, September 5th, 2022
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