Crooked Bough News Round-up

— THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE AGAINST RUSSIA IS EMPTY – PART II OF THE TRUTH REVEALED BY THE HUGHES REPORT

 

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Anthony Hughes was in such a hurry to open and shut the British Government’s case against President Vladimir Putin for the Novichok chemical warfare attack in England in 2018, he failed to tie the top button of his shirt. This was also a precaution against choking on what Hughes recited as []

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— LORD HUGHES BURIES THE SKRIPALS ALIVE  

 

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As all cricket and football followers know, the British are bad losers. They blame the other side or the umpire; they stampede inside the stadium, then they riot outside. They believe their cleverness is in getting the media to portray their defeats on the battlefield as feats of heroism. That’s been []

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— A BLACK VALENTINE FROM GRU TO MOSSAD

 

at 12/10/25 4:01am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Seven months ahead of time, Roman Hofman (Гофман, Gofman), military secretary (advisor) to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since April 2024, has been nominated as the new director of Mossad, succeeding David Barnea whose term ends in June 2026. Netanyahu’s move cuts Gofman’s tenure in the prime minister’s office prematurely short; []

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— TRUMP FOR PEACE IS BELIEVING IN FATHER CHRISTMAS — PUTIN AND MODI DON’T

 

at 12/10/25 12:45am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week it was President Donald Trump telling reporters he didn’t know what response President Vladimir Putin had made to the term-sheet for ending the Ukraine war which he sent to the Kremlin on December 2 with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner. “I dont know what the Kremlin is doing,” []

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— PRESIDENT PUTIN AND PRIME MINISTER MODI SHARE A FUTURE STRATEGY THAT’S NO JOKE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP

 

at 12/8/25 2:13pm

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with It is rare for the ceremony of a state visit to generate such a combination of national pride and comedy at the expense of an enemy; that’s to say, making a mockery of President Donald Trump. This is what this Indian cartoon (lead images) of the meetings in Delhi last []

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— BRIEF GRIEF – A CAREER OF WORKING FOR POLITICAL LOSERS IN COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE DESTROYED THEMSELVES

 

at 12/7/25 12:27pm

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with One needs to have memory in order to have hope for the future, doesn’t one? Regis Tremblay leads the discussion of my career in Russian politics and journalism. Click to view.Follow the Regis Tremblay substack here.

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— IN THE WAR GAME TRUMP IS PLAYING WITH PUTIN, GORILLA RADIO REPORTS THE RUSSIAN DROP SHOT

 

at 12/5/25 12:22am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was Black Tuesday, December 2, in Moscow, when Russian leaders negotiated the crucial questions of war and peace with their chief enemy the US, and chief allies China and India. To understand what has happened, Chris Cook, editor-in-chief of the leading (last) independent radio for news analysis in Canada, asks []

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— IN TEATRALNAYA PLOSHCHAD,  WITKOFF, KUSHNER, AND DMITRIEV POINT TO THE RIGHT OF THE KARL MARX STATUE

 

at 12/3/25 9:48pm

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a single day of this week, Tuesday December 2, Russian officials admitted that negotiations of an end-of-war settlement with the US are failing for lack of American specificity on the territorial and demilitarization issues and of “genuineness” and “sincerity” on ending the sanctions war; that there are serious, unresolved, and []

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— BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY STANDARD HOW TO JUDGE THE END OF WAR TERMS THE US IS OFFERING

 

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The war to end all wars is a refrain which began with the British in 1914. It was a domestic political ployto convince those who should pay and then die. They paid, they died, and though the line was discredited within a decade, they still pay. Nowadays, the British (not []

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— HANG TOGETHER, HANG SEPARATELY – PUTIN AND MODI TAKE THE BEN FRANKLIN LINE

 

at 11/29/25 4:59am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with When the Americans were fighting the British, it was Benjamin Franklin who reportedly told Thomas Jefferson at a strategy session: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will shortly be sitting down in Modi’s study to discuss []

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— SERGEI LAVROV HAS THE “WE ARE LOSING SYRIA” LOOK – NEW PODCAST WITH NIMA ALKHORSHID BREAKS THE NEWS

 

at 11/26/25 1:49am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In today’s podcast, we go step-wise through the Florida plan of Steven Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev (28 points); the Geneva plan of Daniel Driscoll and the US Army generals (19 points); and the Abu Dhabi plan of Driscoll, the US Army Generals, Dmitriev and a secret Russian business representative, excluding the []

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— IS THE US USING PAKISTAN AGAINST INDIA? BEARS DANCE IN DELHI

 

at 11/25/25 12:09am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with For this week, ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s arrival in India on December 6, I am in meetings in Delhi. Here is our first conversation with Sandeep Unnithan and Chakra News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHh0aXP1SA4 

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— THE BULLIES ON THE BEACH ARE BEACHED — TRUMP COVERS RETREAT FROM UKRAINE FRONT

 

at 11/20/25 7:03am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with War fighters like President Donald Trump can’t be seen to run away from losing their wars. As Trump recently declaredfrom the deck of the USS Harry Truman, celebrating the birthday of the US Navy: “We won War I, we won World War II, we won everything in between. We won everything []

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— TOP OF THE BOP AND OTHER TRUMP FANTASIES FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF UKRAINE AND GAZA TO THE SHORES OF PAKISTAN AND VENEZUELA – THIS IS HOW THE US IS RETREATING

 

at 11/19/25 12:36am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Start with the condition of President Donald Trump’s brain, according to his mouth.   “Question: Mr. President, could you tell us why you needed to get an MRI? I, I understand that the results were good, but what was it for? Donald Trump: Because its part of my physical. Getting an []

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— TRUMP’S CEASEFIRE TURNS INTO BACKFIRE – BLOW-UP IN UKRAINE, GERMANY, CANADA, INDIA AND PAKISTAN

 

at 11/17/25 3:54am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It is just five weeks since President Donald Trump failed to win the Nobel peace prize. The armed resistance of Iran and Venezuela has already forced him to postpone his Plan A – that’s for regime change by what Trump likes to call his “obliteration force”. Trump’s Plan B is for []

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— MAGA IS A NATO RACKET – TRUMP’S 5% MILITARY BUDGET HIKE TO FIGHT RUSSIA MAKES CORRUPTION IN ESTONIA  

 

at 11/14/25 3:49am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Estonian politics are being turned upside down because of a leaked report into the diversion of defence spending. The timing is not an unlucky coincidence. It is the result of the country’s leaders claiming kudos for leading the NATO alliance in lifting the military proportion of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) []

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— FIRED FROM CANADIAN CABINET, CHRYSTIA FREELAND IS NOW A FOREIGN MERCENARY ON THE UKRAINE BATTLEFIELD

 

at 11/13/25 12:14am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Since Chrystia Freeland (lead image) was dismissed from her Canadian Cabinet ministry on September 16, she has become the “Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine”. This is a camouflage uniform. According to the official filing in parliament on November 5by the Privy Council Office (PCO) on behalf of Canadian Prime []

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— TRUMP PLAYS THE OLD CIA CARDS FOR REGIME CHANGE

 

at 11/12/25 12:29am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with For the time being, the Trump Administration has put its strategy for regime change by obliteration on hold in Iran and Venezuela, where Russian-backed defences are increasingly deterring and US voters hostile. Instead, as Trump has signalled himself, the US is focusing instead on covert operations with the same goal – []

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— RUSSIANS ARE CRYING OVER THE SPILLED MILK

 

at 11/10/25 12:43am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russians are crying over the milk they can no longer afford to buy. The reason is that their income isn’t keeping up with the rapid rise in the price of milk, butter, and cheese. Elvira Nabiullina (lead image, left), Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), is to blame. The []

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— THE ELECTRIC WAR GATHERS MOMENTUM — EXPLAINER  

 

at 11/9/25 4:13am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Over the last three days the General Staff’s electric war strikes have continued to intensify on their targets and extend right across the Ukraine, with local utility companies announcing blackouts from Kharkov in the east to the western regions(lead image). In itemizing the targets on the map, Mikhail Zvinchuk, chief of []

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— WHO HAS ESCALATION DOMINANCE, TRUMP OVER PUTIN, XI OVER TRUMP?– THE NEW PODCAST WITH NIMA ALKHORSHID

 

at 11/4/25 5:10am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Did Xi Jinping demonstrate escalation dominance over Donald Trump at their meeting in Busan on October 30 (lead image, right) in a way which Vladimir Putin failed to do with Trump at their meeting in Anchorage on August 15? Has the Zhongnanhaistrategy been more effective in deterring US escalation of trade []

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