Dances With Bears

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It’s a brave king who fights on after losing his arms and his legs. It’s a foolish king who asks his army and his people to believe in the certainty of swift victory and then requires them to pay the costs of attrition. Or is it the other way round — […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Bringing the war home was a powerful slogan of the American anti-war movement in the decade between 1965 and 1975,  as the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army advanced towards their victory, forcing the White House to armistice terms in Paris in January 1973, and then to evacuation of Saigon in […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Tehran Times spoke with John Helmer, a veteran journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Moscow, to assess the implications of the conflict for U.S. policy toward Iran, the role of domestic political calculations in Washington, and shifting regional alignments. In this interview, Helmer examines coercive diplomacy, regional securi...

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to heads of state and government like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, there’s nothing new under the sun. Unfortunately, the sun doesn’t shine often enough to reveal what they say in secret so that this can be compared with what they are saying in public at the same […]

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Vladimir Putin has ordered his two spokesmen, Dmitry Peskov and Yury Ushakov, to deny Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statement that the General Staff has been authorized to escalate war operations to regime decapitation in the Ukraine. On Monday evening, May 25,  Lavrov telephoned US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and [&#...