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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with There isn’t a Russian over the age of forty-five – 40 million people — who doesn’t know by heart Vladimir Lenin’s report on the work of the Council of People’s Commissars of December 22, 1920. “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country”, Lenin said. “Our best men,” he […]
Filed under: Ukraine by Editor - Sunday, November 20th, 2022
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Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/ Source: http://www.mid.ru/ By John Helmer, Moscow
Filed under: DwB by Editor - Monday, April 9th, 2018
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with It’s near-certain that no Russian general, nor member of the Stavka, nor President Vladimir Putin has read Biggles.* If one of them had, he would accept that now, after a long time of forgetfulness, the Germans are again the enemy who can and must be defeated by Biggles or his successors […]
Filed under: EU-Russia, Ukraine by Editor - Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with This is how the war in the Ukraine doesn’t end, not for the Germans and the Poles. So long as they can, they plan to steal or destroy Russian assets west of what used to be Kievan Ukraine; and mobilize the US military bases in both countries to reinforce and defend […]
Filed under: EU-Russia, Oil & Gas by Editor - Monday, February 19th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When the General Staff have been discussing with President Vladimir Putin the timing of the Russian offensive to force the Kiev regime into capitulation, it has been agreed, understood, and repeated that the strategic reserves of the Ukrainian forces should be destroyed first, together with the supply lines for the weapons […]
Filed under: DwB, Ukraine by Editor - Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Between 1917 and right now in Russian history, it has been clear that the horse pulls the cart. That’s to say, the ideas people have, or the ideology of groups and the propaganda of media, churches, and governments are pulled along by their economic interests, by the class structure of the […]
Filed under: Russian Politics, Ukraine, US-Russia by Editor - Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Doctors in hospitals for the criminally insane have reported that the sharpest pain patients with superiority complexes suffer is the belief there are others who are more superior than they are. Unless they are stopped, they kill to cure. US exceptionalism is a disease of this type. The American exceptionalists […]
Filed under: Books, Ukraine, US-Russia by Editor - Sunday, September 3rd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Soldiers lay down smoke on the battlefield to conceal their movements, advancing or retreating, from the troops on the other side. In the US Army manuals for warfighting with smoke, there are four kinds for the battlefield (lead image) – obscuring smoke which is aimed at blinding the enemy so […]
Filed under: DwB, Interviews by Editor - Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with For all its public talk, NATO has agreed on a secret six-month plan for Ukraine. It’s a case of do or die by December. Either the Ukrainian forces, firing everything the NATO allies can give them — from US cluster munitions to Franco-English Storm Shadow missiles and German Leopard tanks […]
Filed under: DwB, Ukraine, US-Russia by Editor - Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In brief statements issued late last week in Moscow – their significance missed in the western press — President Vladimir Putin ordered a reality check of Russia’s war strategy. He then answered himself by declaring the war will be over when no Ukrainian army will be left on the battlefield, […]
Filed under: Interviews, Ukraine by Editor - Saturday, June 24th, 2023
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