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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 []

[Category: DwB]

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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. []

[Category: DwB]

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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 []

[Category: DwB]

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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, []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 4/17/25 1:33am
byJohn Helmer, Moscow @bears_with It’s Easter for Christians, and President Donald Trump’s message is a religious one. He aims to be one of the angels of deliverance whom the gospels report to have showed themselves at the tomb of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. Rolling the stone from the entrance to the tomb, and in []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 4/16/25 12:22am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with At 10 on Monday morning this week, the official White House log shows that President Donald Trump was preparing himself to greet the President of Salvador who was arriving at the White House door in an hour’s time.   But in a tweet Trump composed beforehand, he announced: “The War between []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 4/11/25 2:25pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Kirill Dmtiriev (lead image) is the Stanford and Harvard educated official appointed by President Vladimir Putin to persuade American businessmen to invest in the profits to be made from dismantling US economic sanctions against Russia. Today at the Kremlin (April 11), he tried again in fresh talks with Putin and Stephen []

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[l] at 4/10/25 12:47am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with According to the official White House schedule,   President Donald Trump doesn’t start his day until lunchtime when he sits down with his political heir, Vice President J.D. Vance, at 12:30. He has more lunches with Vance than he receives briefings from his secret services on the threats of his enemies. Trump []

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[l] at 4/9/25 12:44am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Until recently it was impossible to grow bananas in Russia except in the greenhouse of Count Pyotr Sheremetev at Kuskovo. That eighteenth-century establishment was so costly to operate, the fruit was a rarity meant for the tsar’s table, and not too tasty either. More than two hundred years of Russian banana []

[Category: Foodstuffs]

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[l] at 3/24/25 2:58am
byJohn Helmer, Moscow @bears_with The snowdrops have already come through the snow. The grape hyacinths are flowering in their place. By the time the bluebells appear, I shall be back at my desk.

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[l] at 3/23/25 11:42pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In Hollywood as in Bollywood, filmmakers and the executive directors representing the production financiers know that the money shot is the climactic moment in the shooting script which is put there to excite the audience, and to persuade the investors there’s money to be made. In porno films, the money shot []

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[l] at 3/21/25 10:41am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “Dont you ever let me hear this again, or Ill lose my temper.” That was Lucky Luciano’s (lead image, left) ultimatum to Vito Genovese (right) in 1946 when Luciano was in Havana, Cuba,  organizing his business comeback in the US, as Genovese tried persuading him to delegate the operations to himself. “Right []

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[l] at 3/19/25 11:18pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the very first Pentagon press briefing of the Trump Administration, held this past Tuesday, Air Force Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, who directs US military operations on the Ukraine battlefield and in Yemen, announced:  “President Trump and Secretary Hegseth,  they understand that when America gets involved in a fight, its our []

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[l] at 3/19/25 6:17am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with At the beginning of this month, Bild, the German media sensationalist, claimed to have discovered “incredible developments between [Presidents] Trump and Putin. And they affect Germany! Bild research reveals secret talks between the US and Russia in Switzerland. Its about an explosive gas deal for Germany! At the centre of the affair: once []

[Category: Oil & Gas, US-Russia]

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[l] at 3/18/25 1:40pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Vladimir Putin has solved the problem of how to conduct telephone calls with Donald Trump’s personality cult. Following Trump’s tweeted claim in the early morning of Tuesday that “many elements of a Final Agreement have been agreed to”  the telephone call which took place over two hours  of the early []

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[l] at 3/18/25 1:03am
by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with NATO infantry operations veteran Major (retd) Mark Takacs (lead image) has published an animated map analysis of the battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces around Sudzha, in the Kursk region, between March 5 and 14. Nothing comparable has been reported by the Russian military bloggers; their US copyists; or the Ukrainian and []

[Category: Ukraine, US-Russia]

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[l] at 3/18/25 1:03am
by Jean-Marc Bovy, Geneva  @bears_with NATO infantry operations veteran Major (retd) Mark Takacs (lead image) has published an animated map analysis of the battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces around Sudzha, in the Kursk region, between March 5 and 14. Nothing comparable has been reported by the Russian military bloggers; their US copyists; or the Ukrainian and []

[Category: Ukraine, US-Russia]

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