John Helmer is the longest serving foreign correspondent in Russia. DwB is the leading investigative source on Russian business, politics, war strategy.

Moscow, Russia
Joined June 2019
Introducing new thinking – how to figure out the moves Trump and his European allies and Kiev clients are planning, and what to do.  johnhelmer.net/from-greenlan…
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Trump is knotting the blindfold tight over his own eyes with his warmongering at the UN. No one is fooled:  johnhelmer.net/this-week-in-…
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Trump’s losing streak runs into Putin’s winning streak. Podcast with Nima starts in 10 minutes: youtube.com/watch?v=epnn1HSG…
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This brain attack drone causes BS -- the Ukraine battlefield medicine term for brainwashed stupidity. johnhelmer.net/russian-commu…
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Trump and Zelensky bomb Russian voters to produce the opposite of their plan. Medvedev announces the “brute force” option. Does Lavrov look like he’s about to retire? johnhelmer.net/the-us-and-na…
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Here’s how the election politics of today in Russia combine with the US midterm calculations fixating Trump to expand the future options for Putin. johnhelmer.net/staring-at-th…
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Remember Putin on knocking the teeth out of the sharks of imperialism. But beware the minnows of imperialism – and also the sushi of imperialism. A message from the Greeks to their Russian comrades. inter.kke.gr/en/m-article/De…
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The sound of ForMin Sergei Lavrov smacking US oligarch negotiator Kirill Dmitriev in the face to repudiate Dmitriev’s ingratiation of Trump and support for the German AfD and French RN parties in Kremlin ring fight:   mid.ru/ru/press_service/mini…
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The diesel crisis is half Iran-Yemen war strategy, half Trump corporate profiteering, so will Putin reward Trump with the Ukraine deal that Dmitriev is urging? Will it make a difference on Election Day?  johnhelmer.net/for-trump-an-…
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Rupert Murdoch returns to Moscow in drag -- Andrew Napolitano has returned to his old Fox News tricks and fabricated his interview with Foreign Minister Lavrov – watch his fist disappear into his face. youtube.com/watch?v=j5BRBu3w…  Min 7:13
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This is how to cut through the diplo-speak, doubletalk, propaganda, handholding and selfies  to see how BRICS in the Delhi summit faced the US empire at war with Russia, Iran, and Yemen:  johnhelmer.net/
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Calling  imperialist sharks,  the BRICS summit has this message for you: johnhelmer.net/jamarl-thomas…
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Before the PR podcasters start watering the plants, this is what the Delhi summit will be doing and what it will not. johnhelmer.net/unabashed-the…
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Explaining the contradictions between the Americans,  Europeans, and Putin’s description of them as imperialists to be trusted:  johnhelmer.net/the-two-perma…
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Dmitriev, Kushner, Ratcliffe lose, Zelensky holds ground,  Lavrov & Gen Staff win in latest war talks. Big stick to defeat soft talk, and big bribe. johnhelmer.net/talk-softly-c…
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The Germans try clumsily to repeat the Dutch MH17 fake, UK Novichok fake, BND’s Navalny fake, then the Bucha fake to continue the war against Russia. But will German voters be so gullible? johnhelmer.net/the-leipzig-a…
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New form for the old-fashioned trial by water –virtual podcast subjected to 4,686 words of long read:  johnhelmer.net/who-am-i-answ…
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Can Putin trust the sharks of imperialism as Gorbachev did?  johnhelmer.net/trust-in-the-…
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Dmitriev & Kushoff celebrate world’s biggest bribe -- $100B of Rus Central Bank reserves to be privatized for “Ukraine reconstruction fund” with fees and 50% profit to the US “investors” – Kremlin calls it “Economic issues, including the prospects for major Russia-US projects.”
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