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[l] at 8/2/26 12:37am
By John Helmer, Moscow, with Sahar Dadjoo, Teheran@bears_with In an interview and video recorded in Teheran on Wednesday, Sahar Dadjoo asked the questions and these are the answers published on August 1. In focus is the US-guided Ukrainian drone attack on the Iranian cargo vessel Ana in the Caspian Sea which occurred on July 25. [] The post “IT IS RUSSIA’S TREATY DUTY TO DO FOR IRAN TO DO TO US FORCES WHAT TRUMP HAS TOLD PUTIN TO STOP” THE TEHRAN TIMES INTERVIEW appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 8/2/26 12:27am
By Oleg Tsarev, Crimea, introduced by John Helmer@bears_with The current restrictions imposed by the Trump Administration and NATO on Ukrainian drone and missile strike options against Russia reflect a strategy known as boiling the frog in warm water. This is a strategy of gradual escalation, the timing of which is measured stepwise – so western [] The post TRUMP’S BOILING FROG STRATEGY AGAINST PUTIN appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 8/1/26 7:53am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Every year at this time, as certain and regular as the Moscow city administration turns off the central hotwater boilers for cleaning, we close the office, postpone the flow of Dances with Bears, suspend the tweets. But just as surely as Muscovites install electric water heaters for substitutes during the profilaktika(профилактика [] The post DOWNING TOOLS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 8/1/26 3:30am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The appearance this week of an unrecognized man (lead images, top right, bottom 2nd from right) standing next to General Dan Caine and behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is a signal that the days of President Donald Trump as peacemaker are [] The post MICHAEL NEEDHAM – THE WHITE HOUSE HACK TELLS ALL appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/30/26 10:35pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with It doesn’t take much time to compile from the works of John Mearsheimer a file of his mistakes of prediction, miscalculations of US and Ukrainian operations, and strategic misjudgements about the US war against Russia in Europe. And yet, despite the plainness of this record, Mearsheimer is treated as a valuable [] The post JOHN MEARSHEIMER IS TRYING TO KILL RUSSIA WITH KINDESS   SOFT POWER EQUALS HARD HEAD EQUALS WRONGHEAD appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/30/26 9:37pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with As tactics for warfighting against Russia go, drones are a new one, and if measured by Russian public opinion, they are more effective for the time being than old tactics like Alexei Navalny-type operations, or Trojan Horses like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or Fifth Columnists like Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina and the [] The post MOSCOW BELIEVES IN SUCCESSION BUT NOT IN TEARS appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/29/26 1:04am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with How long is a piece of string? The recorded history of that question began in a New York newspaper in 1885. At the time and ever since, asking the question implied the answer that there is no limit to the string.  The answer in the lead images, a Jeff and Mutt [] The post THE TRUMP-ZELENSKY ATTACK IN THE CASPIAN SEA IS A PULL ON THE ESCALATION STRING FOR RUSSIA, IRAN, AND CHINA TO MEASURE – THEN WHAT? HERE’S WHAT appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/26/26 3:25am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In the wartime succession stories now screening in your neighbourhood – that’s President Donald Trump’s and President Vladimir Putin’s the money does the talking which the special effects on the Imax screen cannot. At the London BFI Imax cinema, the Odyssey film is booked out through its scheduled run from now [] The post THE ODYSSEY – WHOSE BLOC IS BUSTED appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/26/26 3:17am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The real reason – that’s to say, the White House election campaign reason – for Marco Rubio’s request to meet Sergei Lavrov in Manila for thirty minutes last week was this. Click to view or listen to the new podcast with Martin Sieff and Pelle Neroth Taylor, Capitals Uncovered Episode 138. [] The post TRUMP’S BLAME-RUSSIA ALIBI IS LAUNCHED AS THE BODY BAGS FROM   IRAN WAR COME HOME TO VOTE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/24/26 1:47am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The question everyone in their warfighting chairs has been asking President Vladimir Putin, with a follow-up that no one is reporting: What is Putin going to do to answer the escalation of drone war on the Russian mainland and deter the US and its allies from their war to destroy the [] The post RUBIO WARNED LAVROV TO STOP HITTING CIA AGENTS, US TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OR ELSE – THIS IS HOW PUTIN ORDERED LAVROV TO REPLY appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 7/21/26 8:48pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The inevitability of escalation – that’s the binding strategic requirement for President Vladimir Putin’s decisions on Russia’s warfighting options. It’s binding on the president because it is Article 12 of the Fundamentals of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence, which Putin signed in December 2024.  Here it is: []

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[l] at 7/21/26 3:33am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Marshmallow imperialism is that view of American warmaking against Russia, Iran, China and Cuba which tastes sweet at first bite, but then melts in the mouth with nothing to chew on. That’s when the sugar addiction starts – this is wanting to taste more but never getting enough. Chemical engineers in []

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[l] at 7/19/26 11:45pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with As bird brains go, President Donald Trump doesn’t have what it takes to match an American crow. Trump, combined with Stephen Miller, spokesman and mastermind respectively, of genocide against the enemies of the Jews in the Middle East and the enemies of the Republican Party at home, still doesn’t remember []

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[l] at 7/18/26 12:25am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The E-Day (Escalation Day) decision has been put off. The Kremlin has just run up the signal that Trust in Trump (TIT) remains President Vladimir Putin’s priority. This is the flag raised on Friday morning by Vzglyad, the Kremlin-backed publication.  “Russia has gotten the most out of the Anchorage Spirit”, according to []

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[l] at 7/16/26 8:33pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The Russians and Americans – think tankers, military bloggers, podcasters now calling for President Vladimir Putin to decide on Oreshnik missile and tactical nuclear warhead strikes on NATO targets, outside the Ukraine, are hopeful that the NATO response would be deterrence, not escalation. But they don’t know. They also do []

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[l] at 7/15/26 11:07pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with These are the pressing questions of the Russian moment: Can President Vladimir Putin defend Russia from the escalating US-European war and at the same time preserve the oligarch economy at home? Is there a combination of military escalation, including Oreshnik strikes on NATO territorial targets, with or without nuclear warheads, and []

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[l] at 7/15/26 12:22am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Conspiracy to commit murder is not a capital crime in the US state of South Carolina unless the murder plan  has twelve aggravating circumstances.    Incitement to genocide is a crime in the state, though it, too,  is not punishable by death. Five years in prison is the standard sentence for []

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[l] at 7/14/26 2:42am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Does President Vladimir Putin believe in the magic mirror? That’s the mirror which answers questions. “Mirror, mirror, on the wall”, it has been famously asked for hundreds of years, “Who in this land is fairest of all?”   Putin’s personal advisor, Kirill Dmitriev  the fairest in the land in his []

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[l] at 7/13/26 12:17am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The rupturing of the aorta which killed US Senator Lindsey Graham on July 11  causes sudden, excruciating pain across the chest; the internal bleeding causes death so rapidly most victims cannot be saved. Graham’s fate is now to be inflicted by rapid enactment by the US Senate and House of the []

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[l] at 7/12/26 1:03am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Excerpts from the Red Pill Diaries with Rasheed Muhammad, podcast on July 11, 2026:click to view or listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4_bD4EcHs At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Donald Trump has committed to maximum escalation against Russia risking and costing nothing for US voters but enriching the US military-industrial complex, the Trump family, []

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[l] at 7/9/26 9:26pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Even presidents-for-life reach their dotage like everybody else. They prefer to die in their own beds, also like everybody. In these three recent pieces, the case is made that Putin’s Russia – reading number 1 by Paul Craig Roberts and Erdogan’s Turkey – reading number 3 by Abdullah Bozkurt []

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