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[l] at 5/21/25 1:19am
By John Helmer@bears_with Is it MAGA or is it MEGA? When President Donald Trump negotiated with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, May 19,  was he aiming to lower the cost of the Ukraine war to the domestic US economy, or to enrich it by transferring the war cost to the Europeans, particularly Germany, so that []

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[l] at 5/20/25 1:57am
By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday President Donald Trump telephoned President Vladimir Putin and they talked for two hours before Trump put lunch in his mouth and Putin his dinner. On the White House schedule, there was no advance notice of the call and no record afterwards. The White House log is blank for Trump’s []

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[l] at 5/19/25 2:59am
By John Helmer@bears_with In Soviet days Russians were famous for not smiling, at least not in public. In private, smiling was strictly between consenting adults. Now it is a marketing ploy of Sberbank the state savings bank run by Yeltsin-era leftover, German Gref – to invite its customers to smile whenever they make payments. []

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[l] at 5/17/25 1:56pm
By John Helmer@bears_with In the outcome, it’s the old story come true again. That’s the one in which Tarquin, the ancient Roman king, wanted the Cumaean Sybil to sell him the nine books of prophecies known as the Sybilline Oracles. When the king dismissed the Sybil’s price for the nine, she burned three and asked []

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[l] at 5/15/25 1:04am
By John Helmer  @bears_with On Monday, May 12, the United States pushed the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the aircraft safety watchdog, to vote behind closed doors to adopt a secret resolution convicting Russia of shooting-down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. Unlike the Dutch show trial which in November 2022 []

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[l] at 5/14/25 12:54pm
By John Helmer  @bears_with In his 48-minute speech in Riyadh, President Donald Trump was applauded many times for rewriting the past of US wars in the Middle East, and also the future of US wars in the region, and elsewhere. From the Arab point of view, the outcome of these wars has been the destruction of []

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[l] at 5/12/25 12:43pm
By John Helmer  @bears_with When politicians fight wars to truce or ceasefire, there’s a mistake they often make. That is to give up escalation dominance, escalation control, to the adversary so that he gains confidence  that when he is ready, he will resume fighting in a much stronger position than he was at the truce. In []

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[l] at 5/7/25 12:02pm
By John Helmer@bears_with As if it wasn’t already clear, the mainstream media led by Reuters, a Russia warfighting propaganda platform based in New York, have just announced that when President Donald Trump says he is for peace with Russia, he is either winking at his Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth or blinking at President Vladimir Putin. []

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[l] at 5/5/25 12:35am
By Lieutenant General P.R. Shankar Brigadier Arun Sahgal, introduced by John Helmer  @bears_with On April 22, an Islamic terrorist group, backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), attacked Indian civilians in Pahalgam, Kashmir, killing 26 and wounding 20.     “Although the civilian government in Islamabad has denied involvement,” reports Chatham House, the semi-official British think tank,   “there []

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[l] at 5/4/25 12:41am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with After the Victory Day celebration later this week, President Vladimir Putin has agreed to hold a summit meeting with President Donald Trump. “The Americans have repeatedly asked for a summit and the Kremlin has finally decided,” according to a reliable Moscow source, “that there is no need to spurn the extended []

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[l] at 5/1/25 1:17am
byJohn Helmer, Moscow @bears_with “When war and revolution come, remember the long years in which the storm was rising, and don’t blame the thunderbolt”. That warning appeared in the Chicago Tribune in November 24, 1895. It was written by Clarence Darrow, then a young city lawyer working for railroads and also for unions in []

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[l] at 5/1/25 12:58am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Retired US Army General Keith Kellogg, the White House negotiator with the Ukrainian-European alliance, announced yesterday that for the terms of peacemaking on the Ukrainian battlefield,  “the president has this one right on the money, and that’s where we want to go to.”    Right on the money is exactly where []

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[l] at 4/30/25 12:31pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the new podcast with Nima Alkhorshid, here is the breaking news of the sides in the war changing the appearance of their negotiating positions, starting with President Donald Trump and the reply from President Vladimir Putin. Click to view: https://www.youtube.com/   As you listen, here is the  new evidence. Reporting accurately []

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[l] at 4/30/25 1:33am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Donald Trump has pulled a fast one against the US Constitution, if not quite and not yet a coup d’état. “We have an idea of coups being external military assaults on the government,” a US constitutional law professor has reported. “But self-coups take place within the government, from within the []

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[l] at 4/28/25 1:17am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is not the comedy of the two Odessa conmen who travel across the Soviet Union trying to find a cache of jewellery hidden in twelve chairs, written in 1928. In the end, one murders the other, and then when he discovers the treasure has already been found and spent, he []

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[l] at 4/26/25 2:32am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a good reason that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and it has nothing to do with heredity, dendrology, or gravity. The reason is that trees understand the further away the apple is dropped, the easier it is to steal. This is understood by the oligarchs who []

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[l] at 4/25/25 1:00am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In Shelley’s most famous poem, the relics are described of Ozymandias, the ancient ruler with his “sneer of cold command” and his ill-fated power projection: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe []

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[l] at 4/24/25 1:37am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In this new podcast the word that podcasters are afraid to say aloud, for fear of sounding “lunatic leftists” – Donald Trump’s phrase – is imperialism. Listen to the presentation with Nima Alkhorshid and Ray McGovern here and for the compelling evidence, read on. At the end of Trump’s Wednesday, five hours []

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[l] at 4/23/25 12:34am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Yevgeny Krutikov is a former Russian military intelligence officer in the Balkans who now writes politico-military and intelligence analyses for Vzglyad. Because of the intention of his sources and their target audience, Krutikov’s papers are more a bellwether of formed policy thinking than influencer of policy decisions yet to be made. []

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[l] at 4/22/25 2:02am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the State Department’s readout of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s telephone call to NATO Secretary-General, Mark Rutte, Rubio said: “while our nation has been committed to helping end the war, if a clear path to peace does not emerge soon, the United States will step back from efforts to broker []

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[l] at 4/21/25 1:39am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The priority for peacemaking in Europe has to be Russia and the United States. It has long been US imperial policy since 1945 to break, block, and destroy the capability of the Russians, either in the form of the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation, to form a level of partnership, []

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