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[l] at 2/28/23 12:00am
By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Football is the most popular sport Russians like to play and like to watch. Ice hockey comes second. The connexion between football and ice hockey, apples and tomatoes is that Gennady Timchenko (lead image left) is the sanctioned oligarch who is now moving into domestic production of apples to substitute for []

[Category: EU-Russia, Foodstuffs, Oligarchs]

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[l] at 2/26/23 2:48am
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 []

[Category: DwB, Interviews, Oligarchs, Russian Politics, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/22/23 11:38pm
By Lucy Komisar, New York*   @bears_with How do you make a good propaganda film? How do you expose it before it wins a truth-telling award and embarrasses the prize givers? Before they discover it’s a propaganda pseudo-documentary that has been nominated for the Oscars – before the white envelopes are opened in front of millions []

[Category: Media, Navalny]

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[l] at 2/22/23 12:36am
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 []

[Category: Media, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/20/23 3:01pm
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 []

[Category: Interviews, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/19/23 1:08am
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 []

[Category: DwB, EU-Russia, Interviews, Media, Oil & Gas, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/15/23 12:19am
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 []

[Category: EU-Russia, Ukraine]

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[l] at 2/14/23 12:26am
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 victories than the others with the combination of heavy []

[Category: Interviews, Ukraine]

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[l] at 2/12/23 11:56pm
By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Dutch police have just released US satellite photographs (lead images) purporting to reveal Russian truck transporters of BUK missile units at Millerovo and Kursk on July 18 and July 20, 2014, just hours and days after the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. []

[Category: MH17]

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[l] at 2/12/23 1:15am
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 []

[Category: EU-Russia, Interviews, UK-Russia, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/10/23 1:20am
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 []

[Category: EU-Russia, Media, MH17, Oil & Gas, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/8/23 11:57pm
By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Massachusetts philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was making a mistake when he claimed “there are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.” Although he grew pears himself, Emerson isn’t known to have made them into pear cider, also known as poiréin France, perry []

[Category: EU-Russia, Foodstuffs]

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[l] at 2/6/23 11:36pm
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 []

[Category: China-Russia, US-Russia]

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[l] at 2/6/23 1:54am
By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the war of the worlds which the US insists its allies fight on their territories in Asia and in Europe, the flight of the Chinese balloon demonstrates the reverse of the propaganda message on who in this war is strong; who is weak; who will prevail; who will survive. Suppose []

[Category: Australia-Russia, Interviews]

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[l] at 2/1/23 11:26pm
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 []

[Category: EU-Russia, Interviews, Oil & Gas, Oligarchs, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/31/23 11:15pm
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 []

[Category: EU-Russia, Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/28/23 1:14am
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. 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 will happen []

[Category: Media, Ukraine]

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[l] at 1/27/23 12:14am
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 []

[Category: Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/25/23 9:47pm
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 []

[Category: Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/25/23 9:47pm
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 []

[Category: Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/24/23 11:48pm
By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Ask yourself in what country of the so-called international rules-based order,  would the rules allow the head of state and the head of government to act together in secret to violate the state’s constitution, creating a secret junta unaccountable to parliament, the press, or the courts? And then after one []

[Category: Interviews, Media]

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