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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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[l] at 10/6/26 1:45am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In the memory of nations, a very special curse is reserved for the ruler who wanted peace not war; but was trapped by his enemies, not only into fighting on his enemies’ terms and timetable, but also into losing the war, and then losing the verdict of history of who was [] The post THE CURSE OF WAR FIGHTING ON THE ENEMY’S TERMS AND TIMETABLE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/4/26 8:50am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with During the Americanization of Russian popular culture in the 1990s, the meaning of the word класс (pronounced kl-ah-ss) was dismantled – reformed was the political term in fashion then. The word had come into the Russian language when Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725) borrowed it from the German, French, and Latin [] The post PUTIN SAYS THAT CLASS WAR, IF TRUMP IS RUNNING IT BUT NOT THE EUROPEANS OR JAPANESE, IS класс! appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/3/26 5:47am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In the long history of political thinking in the world, the great Russian contributions have been to the recognition of human oppression and the mind required to fight it. Bakunin, Kropotkin, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin: these names are no longer absent from Moscow bookshop shelves, but their lessons are not taught in [] The post DOES RUSSIA SPEAK AGAINST THE RULING CLASS OF THE WORLD OR FOR JOINING IT? appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 10/2/26 1:48am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with It’s not surprising that JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US, and the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) under Elvira Nabiullina agree on the future and what’s to be done to get there profitably. However, when JP Morgan’s commodities research team – composed of three Russian émigrés to the US [] The post AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OIL BARREL THERE IS NO BASELINE FOR THE FUTURE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/30/26 12:21am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The 73-year old President Xi Jinping, and 80-year old President Donald Trump said too much to each other in Washington last week. Russian President Vladimir Putin, turning 74 next week, left several things unsaid but meant. Whose voice is of the stronger man? According to Trump, Xi, “looks strong, vibrant, and [] The post THE MEANING OF RUSSIAN SILENCE TOWARDS XI AND TRUMP appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/25/26 1:14am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with An international platform for national upstarts to upstage each other – trained roosters clawing at each other in a cockpit surrounded by money bettors. This comes every September when the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) holds what it calls High-Level Week and the General Debate. Lame ducks can pretend to be [] The post LAVROV SIGNALS NEW RUSSIAN THINKING ON DEALING WITH TRUMP appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/24/26 2:39am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Greenland is to be the newest US and NATO drone and missile launcher against Russia. According to the preamble of the agreement with Denmark and the Prime Minister of Greenland, signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 22), Russia is now an outsider in the Arctic region ruled by the [] The post FROM GREENLAND & POLAND TO UKRAINE, THIS IS THE WAR, NOT TO END ALL WARS BUT TO CONTINUE & ESCALATE ALL WARS AGAINST RUSSIA appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/23/26 1:00am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Blind man’s buff is an old game of parlour warfare in which the combatants try to tag the blind one, the buffer, and then hide. If they are caught, they are out of the game. The buffer wins when he’s tagged them all out. Hiding in plain sight, making deceptive noises [] The post THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA IS THE BLIND MAN’S BUFF GAME THE US AND EUROPE HAVE PLAYED BEFORE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/22/26 1:58am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with A new drone has appeared on the European battlefield. With lightweight warhead and jet propulsion, it has almost unlimited range, and Circular Error Probability (CEP) of less than 10 millimetres. When it strikes the brain, it doesn’t kill or maim. It preserves the target’s motor functions but renders it senseless. That’s [] The post RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS, FRENCH OPPOSITION HIT BY DRONE ATTACKS, BRAIN DEAD appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/21/26 1:35am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Nothing succeeds so consistently and so badly at changing the hearts, minds, and votes of people than bombing them. It’s a conclusion that the 316 volumes of the US Strategic Bombing Survey of 1944-45  came to about the enemies of that time, the Germans and Japanese, very reluctantly.   In announcing [] The post THE US AND NATO ATTACK RUSSIAN VOTERS – RAISE TURNOUT, REDUCE  OPPOSITION VOTE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/19/26 12:55am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with From which direction does the sun come up each day? That was one of the questions in the battery of tests which was used on patients to diagnose the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. An answer confusing east and west was a symptom of that brain disease. The question comes up today [] The post STARING AT THE IMPERIAL SUN IS BLINDING – FOCUS ON KNOCKING THE TEETH OUT OF THE IMPERIALIST SHARKS appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/16/26 12:39am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with When President Donald Trump blames Vladimir Zelensky for the diesel crisis in the US, he is more than scapegoating the wrong man. He is revealing he has no October Surprise – no peace deal for the Russia-Ukraine war, no peace deal with Iran, no peace deal with Yemen – to save [] The post FOR TRUMP AN OCTOBER SURPRISE THAT ISN’T A RESCUE appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/14/26 7:37am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Summit meetings are always circus rings. BRICS India 2026, just concluded in Delhi, is no different from BRICS Brasil 2025 nor from BRICS China 2027. There’s another political constant. The BRICS summit leaders, especially President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aim to be a combination of [] The post POST CARD FROM DELHI – IF BRICS IS ANTI-IMPERIALIST, WHO ARE THE CLOWN, THE ELEPHANT AND THE RINGMASTER NOW THAT THE CIRCUS HAS MOVED ON? appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/12/26 11:29pm
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Starting at 10:30 Moscow, Athens and Beirut time on Saturday morning, Dimitri Lascaris hosted the Reason2Resist podcast to discuss the Ansarallah defeat of Saudi air and ground forces at the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, the Saudi coastline, and Egypt’s lifeline, the Suez Canal. Not since the [] The post BRICS AND THE “IMPERIALIST SHARKS” HOW TO READ THE BRICS SUMMIT DECISIONS ON THE US EMPIRE WARS BEING LOST AGAINST RUSSIA, IRAN, AND YEMEN appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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[l] at 9/11/26 8:15am
By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Broadcast live today from 07:15 Eastern Time (US), click to watch or listen:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIk6TSrF-OA  The two documents that are now the pointers for the outcome of the BRICS summit on Saturday are the Foreign Ministers’ statement of last May 15 and the Bishkek Declaration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), issued [] The post JAMARL THOMAS OPENS THE US MORNING WITH THE SMALL PRINT OF THE BRICS RESPONSE TO US WARS AGAINST IRAN AND RUSSIA, THE SAUDI WAR AGAINST YEMEN, AND US MILITARIZATION OF THE INDIAN OCEAN appeared first on Dances With Bears.

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