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[l] at 11/5/26 1:52am
By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Rashid Muhammad asks the questions; here are the answers, broadcast live on Wednesday 5pm Washington, DC time:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmC_MoTbwqo  The post WHAT IS HOLDING RUSSIA BACK FROM WAGING WAR LIKE IRAN? WHY HASN’T RUSSIA ATTACKED NATO TARGETS OUTSIDE UKRAINE? WHY HASN’T RUSSIA ATTACKED US ECONOMIC TARGETS, INCLUDING THE CAPITAL MARKETS? appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 11/4/26 9:31pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with “Resilience,” declared Kirill Dmitriev, after delaying his Twitter stream until the defeat of President Donald Trump was too obvious to ignore, “is needed to protect Western civilization.”   He then explained Trump’s defeat as caused by barbarians, London ones. “British media worked hard to undermine President Trump and Republicans before the midterms [] The post THE KREMLIN REFUSES TO READ THE WRITING ON THE WALL appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 11/3/26 10:38pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with There is the possibility that during the exceptional telephone call President Vladimir Putin has just had with Mohsen Rezaei, head of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Putin told Rezaei that President Donald Trump is so obsessed with his personal impotence that rational deterrence is impossible with him. If Putin said [] The post TRUMP’S DEFEAT IS THE END OF THE DIMTRIEV LINE IN THE KREMLIN appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 11/1/26 9:37pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with There is a good reason that the podcasters on the Ukraine war draw large audiences by repeating the same mistake and not correcting it. Delivering the certainty of war fact by podcasting the daily news from the battlefield several times a day is next to impossible. More certain is the process [] The post THE IRON LAW OF PROPAGANDA BENDS PODCASTS, PAINS PODCASTERS appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/30/26 12:05am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with A reconnaissance scout on the battlefield; a spy under cover on enemy territory; a G2 General Staff officer; a national security advisor; a politician running for election; or a journalist would be disbelieved, suspected of duplicity, even shot, if he or she made the same mistake so confidently, so loudly, so [] The post THE LEGLESS PODCASTERS WHY THE NAPOLITANO GANG MAKES THE SAME WAR MISTAKE SO OFTEN appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/28/26 9:53pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In the Polymarket betting market which the Trump family plays as the house, the White one  betting $300 million on itself,  Alexandra Occasio-Cortez (AOC) is running neck and neck with Gavin Newson as the Democratic candidate for the presidential election in two years’ time. In the opinion polls, she is running [] The post WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN IS DELIVERING DIESEL TO THE US BUT NOT CUBA; WHY JD VANCE WON’T RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028; WHY MATTHIAS WARNIG JOINED THE FINANCIAL TIMES TO FABRICATE AN OLD UKRAINE PEACE PLAN – AND MORE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/27/26 9:52pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Bribery for President Donald Trump and his family has become such a political liability in US politics that, according to a new poll reported last week, “about 69 per cent of registered voters, and almost 50 per cent of those who voted for the president in 2024, said they were ‘very’ [] The post FRIENDLY KREMLIN REMINDER THE TRUMP FAMILY PROMISSORY NOTE IS FALLING DUE   appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/27/26 1:17am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Just as drones have overtaken traditional infantry, armour and artillery weapons in land war, podcasts are transforming the warfighting weapons on the media battlefield. This is the first history of war and peace podcasting and of the big-click, fat-money, heavy-weapon podcast names. Just in time, too, because the evidence uncovered [] The post New book published today STAND AND DELIVER – THE HISTORY OF PODCAST JOURNALISM appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/26/26 11:38pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In Moscow last week (October 22), President Vladimir Putin (lead image, top left) told a reporter that he thinks the people of Europe can stop the war against Russia, and President Donald Trump too. “It has become obvious to everyone,” Putin said, “that it is impossible to defeat Russia on the [] The post WHAT IS THE TRUMP REVOLUTION, WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION WHICH WILL REVERSE THE COURSE OF PERMANENT WAR AGAINST RUSSIA, SUSPEND FIGHTING ON THE UKRAINE FRONT? appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/23/26 2:03am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The destruction of the Libyan people has been attempted three times in the past century – the first by the Italians between 1911 and 1939; the second by the Germans between 1939 and 1943; and the third by the Americans, British and French from 2011 until now. Three times the [] The post WHEN YOU REMEMBER THE US-NATO MURDER OF MUAMMAR QADDAFI IN 2011 AND THE ITALIAN MURDER OF OMAR EL-MUKHTAR AND THE LIBYAN GENOCIDE, 1912-39, YOU WON’T FALL FOR THE RACIST AND FASCIST IDEOLOGY OF “IMMIGRATION” PROMOTED EVERY DAY BY THE KREMLIN OFFICIAL, KIRILL DMITRIEV   appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/21/26 11:12pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with This week the US Navy sent one of its maritime surveillance aircraft, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, on a special mission off the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea. According to the Itamilradar.com website (lead image, Itamilradar map) which monitors NATO air and naval operations in the region, “the flight track [] The post GORILLA RADIO GOES ON BLACK SEA PATROL – SHAKES FIST AT TURKISH PLAN & THE OTHER NATO PLANS AGAINST RUSSIA appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/20/26 11:14pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with “Never in our history have Iran and Russia worked as closely as now”, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchisaid on meeting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday (October 20). This was not a diplomatic nicety, nor is it an academic exaggeration. The history of distrust and warfighting between their two states is more [] The post SERGEI LAVROV TRIES TO LAY RUSSIAN GHOSTS IN TEHERAN appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/19/26 9:29pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with This is the story of how recent calculations by President Donald Trump, Vladimir Zelensky, and President Vladimir Putin have come up short more quickly than they were expecting. It’s a short story Trump’s is the shortest of the three. Trump and Zelensky have believed that the war which they, their [] The post SLOPAGANDA IN WAR IS WHEN YOU CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOPE AND HYPE AND YOU ARE BLIND TO NOPE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/14/26 11:06pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with For three consecutive days last week, October 5-7, specially equipped intelligence-gathering aircraft of the Swedish Air Force and the US Army flew multiple missions over the southern area of the Black Sea, flying from bases in Bucharest and Constanta, Romania, and concentrating on the Bulgarian coastline and territorial waters to the [] The post THE BLACK SEA GAME NATO IS PLAYING FOR BULGARIA AGAINST RUSSIA appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/14/26 1:37am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The scheme which Kirill Dmitriev (lead image centre), the Kremlin’s negotiator for American money-making schemes, has been planning with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner for Russian diesel to be traded to the US, relieved of sanctions, in exchange for US delivery of Vladimir Zelinsky’s agreement to Russian end-of-war terms, has failed. [] The post DMITRIEV’S DIESEL DEAL DEAD appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/12/26 3:51am
https://www.outsidetbox.com/post/2018/10/29/samir-tankertrackerscom Source: https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2109216468055257129  Source: https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2109512855351410954  The post CORRECTION: THE MINERVA ZEN IS NOW REPORTED TO BE DISCHARGING AT WILMINGTON PORT A CARGO OF LIQUID FERTILIZER, NOT DIESEL.  THE SOURCE, TANKERTRACKERS, IS A STOCKHOLM-BASED ORGANIZATION WITH NO CONFIRMED CONNECTIONS TO US OR OTHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/11/26 10:22pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with There has been breaking news since the podcasts with Dimitri Lascaris and Nima Alkhorshid analysing the telephone agreement on Russian diesel shipments to the US between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. The diesel dealmaking had been under way for at least three weeks before the terms reached Putin and [] The post THE RUSSIAN DIESEL DEAL – CORRUPT PAYOFF BETWEEN DMITRIEV AND WITKOFF,   OR SAFE BET TO TEST TRUMP’S CONTROL OF ZELENSKY  OR BOTH appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/10/26 12:19am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The telephone call which President Donald Trump has been trying to make to President Vladimir Putin since the morning of October 7, and which the Kremlin spokesman refused to confirm each day since,  was such a surprise when it happened on Friday evening, the Kremlin kept it secret from the Russian [] The post OLIGARCHS OF THE WORLD UNITE AT ELECTION TIME TRUMP’S OCTOBER SURPRISE PLUS PUTIN’S OCTOBER SURPRISE REVEAL A “SAFE BET” appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/9/26 12:44am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Not so long ago, godfearing Russians believed that if they saw a coin lying on the footpath, they should step over it and not look back because it would be bad luck to pick it up. This was not a primitive superstition. It is a rational calculation, my wife Tatiana explained, [] The post WHEN THE POWER IS IRRATIONAL IT’S NOT SUPERSTITION TO SEE THE SIGNS appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/8/26 12:20am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with When the time of your labour is converted into the profit of the capital which employs you, you belong to the working class. You don’t get time off for vacation. No money. All Russians know this because it was one of the foundation ideas of the communist party state known as [] The post THE RUSSIAN RULING CLASS TAKES ITS HOLIDAY OUTSIDE THE WAR, THE WORKING CLASS STAYS HOME AND TAKES COVER appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/7/26 12:46am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with There is nothing phoney about this stage of the permanent war against Russia, Iran, China, and Cuba, not if you are under the US empire’s guns at the front, in the rear, or on the high seas. At this stage there is good news to report, and also some not so [] The post WORLD WAR III – THIS IS THE PHONEY WAR STAGE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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