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  • Monthly Review Essays
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    The collapse of Trump’s mind leaves no alternative

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on April 5, 2026 (more by Dances with Bears)

    In the four days between April 1 and April 5, President Donald Trump made a record of the collapse of his mind into genocidal violence which none of his officials can dissuade, limit, control, if they try, or even conceal.

  • Putin Plan

    The Putin plan for Cuba and the Castro family-more Gorbachev, definitely not Khrushchev

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on February 20, 2026 (more by Dances with Bears)

    It is not the first time Putin has said there is nothing but historical memory to share between Russia and Cuba; and that he would trade Russia’s military positions in Cuba for its interest in business with the U.S.

  • STAB IN THE BACK

    Stab in the back

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on February 15, 2026 (more by Dances with Bears)

    President Vladimir Putin has given instructions to accept the Trump Administration’s demand that in exchange for lifting sanctions against Russia, U.S. capital must return to Russia on preferential terms as soon as possible.

  • Jeffrey Epstein

    Jeffrey Epstein’s Putin hustle was a decade-long failure but his story keeps proving American exceptionalism is a failure

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on February 5, 2026 (more by Dances with Bears)

    This is evidence that Epstein was always an agent, asset, source of chickenfeed, or bagman but never a handler, controller, or spymaster.

  • Kiev Regime

    At what point, capitulation of the Kiev regime? Can President Trump and General Grynkewich save it

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on January 25, 2026 (more by Dances with Bears)

    For the time being, open-source attempts to assess the breaking-point for the Ukrainians are inconclusive.

  • Harry Hopkins

    The last honest American go-between the White House and the Kremlin died eighty years ago

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on January 15, 2026 by John Helmer (more by Dances with Bears) (Posted Jan 17, 2026)

    On his way to meet Joseph Stalin in July 1941, Harry Hopkins landed just out of range of German guns on a Moscow city airfield which, later, stretched a few hundred metres from my kitchen window.

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    Fuhrer Fascism–How did Vzglyad know that Trump’s meeting with the generals was a loyalty test? Because Russian remember Hitlers Fuhrerreid of 1935?

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on October 5, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    The generals at Quantico did not give their response to Trump. They listened in silence and left in silence.

  • Trump

    Trump escalates Ukraine war-Putin acknowledges reality is turning out to be Marxist

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on July 14, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    By Russian as well as Anglo-American neurological and psychiatric standards, this man is a certifiable maniac.

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    “Congratulations to everyone” in rope-a-dope strategy, the bell also sounds for rest periods

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on June 23, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    According to the Unified Rules of Boxing issued by the U.S. Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, when the bell sounds for the end of each round, there is a “rest period” before the boxers resume their fight, or one retires too hurt to continue.

  • rope-a-dope warfighting

    In rope-a-dope war fighting strategy, nothing quite succeeds like failure

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on June 22, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    According to General Daniel Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. has knocked out Iran’s nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapon preparation plants with “extremely severe destruction”; “completely and totally”, according to President Donald Trump.

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    How to say in Russian happy birthday Donald, happy U.S. Army and Flag Day

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on June 15, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    Putin is much too quick not to recognize that President Donald Trump is both a fraudster and an enemy.

  • tell-and-consequences

    Tell-and-consequences is not a war game, neither is turn-the-other-cheek

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on June 8, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    The game of tell-and-consequences begins with a prompt.

  • US/Russia

    The oligarchs’ picnic–what’s on the menu when Trump’s oligarchs negotiate with Putin’s oligarchs

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on January 23, 2025 (more by Dances with Bears)

    Today we are at roughly the same point, but oligarchs think in commercial terms, not social or ethical ones. For the oligarchs, the point on both sides is that the sanctions war over the past three years has created the largest gap between true asset value and trade value which exists in the global market today–this is the gap between the pre-war bankable value of Russian commodities, resources, and corporate assets and their discounted price under sanctions.

  • TONY'S DARK SECRET

    Yulia Skripal reveals the biggest secret of all at Novichok show trial-The attack was a British operation, not a Russian one

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on November 16, 2024 (more by Dances with Bears)

    Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.

  • Sergei and Yulia Skripal

    Novichok show trial suffers sudden death shot from doctor’s testimony that government officials sedated the Skripals to stop them talking

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on November 1, 2024 (more by Dances with Bears)

    The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious to silence them.

  • Pokrovsk

    The war came to Pokrovsk

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on October 4, 2024 (more by Dances with Bears)

    Established as a minor Russian rail junction in 1880, it was badly damaged by the Italians and Germans who captured the city between 1941 and 1943, killing more than 8,000 Red Army defenders, 5,000 residents, and all the Jews.

  • German Leopard 2A6 burning internally after being hit by Russian fire near Avdeyevka in November 2023.

    The good Germans are blowing smoke

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on March 3, 2024 (more by Dances with Bears)

    There is a fraction of the Germans who, when speaking or writing in public, consider themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to truth—negligibly fractional; sometimes truth-telling; always irrelevant to the outcome of the wars which Germany wages.

  • RUNNING THE RED GAUNTLET

    Running the Red Gauntlet–Russia is negotiating with the Houthis for Red Sea passage of oil cargoes defying U.S./EU sanction

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on December 20, 2023 (more by Dances with Bears)

    Russia is negotiating with the Houthis of Yemen to protect Russian oil cargoes moving through the Red Sea for delivery to India and China, the principal destinations of Russian oil currently traversing the waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.

  • PRIGOZHIN’S THREE STRIKES

    Prigozhin’s three strikes–Khodorkovsky business, Berozovsky politics, the last Africa trip

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on September 5, 2023 (more by Dances with Bears)

    On March 5, in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), there was a fire-bombing of a French–owned brewery which destroyed 50,000 bottles of beer.

  • Silence of the Lambs: How the Russian Communists have responded to the Wagner mutiny and Prigozhin’s Empire

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on July 5, 2023 by John Helmer (more by Dances with Bears)

    The calls have begun in Mosco, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin’s conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater damage than Prigozhin himself has caused. In short, a Russian oligarch who knows too much, with too many mouths to feed, too many pockets to fill, and so too big to fail.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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