Open Dialogue Research Journal
France has always possessed a peculiar relationship with pessimism. Political anxiety is almost a national tradition, discussed as naturally as wine, football, or strikes. Every generation seems convinced that the Republic is approaching collapse, that social order is disintegrating, and that the country is only one election away from disaster. […]
A needless, extravagant ballroom. Questionable gifts, not least the 747-200B aircraft from the Qatari government. An inane decision to add a blue protective coating to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington. These events increasingly point to the loss of sound mind. The galloping profligacy and indulgence hardly stops there […]
This won’t just hit the Kremlin’s coffers, but also tangibly worsen threats to Russia’s national security from the European direction, with the same model poised to be applied along the southern one too as regards Turkish-led threats from the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave […]
The United States has dramatically intensified its confrontation with Cuba by filing criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, marking one of the most serious escalations in relations between the two countries in decades. The unprecedented indictment reflects the increasingly aggressive foreign policy approach of President Donald Trump’s administration […]
The most articulate supporters of this view are at the Neighborhood Club of Finland, which was started in 2022 by Mauno Eljas Saari (born 16 June 1947 in Tornio), a Finnish journalist, author and screenwriter, who in 2014 had noticed that the ‘democratic revolution’ in February 2014 in Ukraine had, in fact, been instead a successful U.S. coup that replaced Ukraine’s democratically elected and committedly […]
Larry Johnson said in interviews on May 20th, that America’s only allies in the Middle East will likely be Israel and Jordan, as a result of which the U.S. will be defeated by Iran if Trump goes for another invasion of Iran. Johnson made clear that crucial to American success in […]
Early on the morning of May 18, 2026, the information space exploded with a brief announcement: the Belarusian Defense Ministry declared the start of joint nuclear weapons exercises with Russia. By that evening, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry had already labelled the events an “unprecedented challenge to global security”, and a day […]
The primary takeaway is that Estonia doesn’t want any part in whatever Latvia might be cooking up with Ukraine, reasonably calculating that the US might not risk war with Russia if Russia retaliates. Estonia announced that a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over its airspace on Tuesday after receiving an […]
Cuba is facing one of the most severe crises in its modern history. A dramatic shortage of oil, combined with mounting pressure from the United States, has pushed the Caribbean nation toward economic paralysis and growing social unrest. With fuel reserves nearly exhausted, repeated nationwide blackouts, and shortages affecting nearly […]
The United States is preparing to scale back the military forces it would make available to NATO during major crises, according to multiple sources familiar with internal Pentagon discussions. The move marks another significant shift in Washington’s defense strategy under President Donald Trump and signals a broader effort to push […]
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