Open Dialogue Research Journal
The Ukrainian drone operation mounted against St. Petersburg on the night of October 17-18 has revived an awkward question that the Baltic governments and Helsinki have preferred to leave unexamined, which is whether such a large attacking force could possibly have reached its objectives without crossing NATO airspace. Russian sources […]
With Election Day two weeks away, nearly every signal from the Senate races favours the Democrats. Polls, election models and the general political climate point their way, and Republicans are scrambling to shore up even states they normally take for granted. Momentum has reached deep-red territory such as Kansas and […]
It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention and mindless devotion of unwitting users, the legal suit is becoming common fare. These initially lay in the field of copyright breaches and intellectual property violations. Attention is […]
Tomorrow, October 23, Hungary marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. While official commemorations focus on that date, the intellectual catalyst occurred a day earlier. On October 22, students at the Budapest Technical University gathered to draft the famous Sixteen Points. Their demands were clear: the withdrawal of Soviet […]
Xi reasonably doesn’t want to freeze the gap between China and the US, but unless he does so, a nuclear arms race with the likely participation of several middle powers like Japan is possible. The White House’s fact sheet that was published after Xi’s visit to the US in September […]
The conflict could freeze along the frontlines if the US coerces the EU and Ukraine into agreeing to the resumption of Russian energy imports through partially US-controlled pipelines while convincing Russia to agree to the deployment of European forces to Ukraine without the US’ Article 5 protection. Zelensky said that […]
Aleksandar Vučić gave an interview to Ksenia Sobchak in a strange position. He is no longer president, but not yet prime minister. The constitution does not allow a third presidential term—that is the whole reason for the “swap.” Putin, during their last conversation, did not ask “why are you leaving,” […]
France and Germany have long approached China differently. Berlin, whose carmakers and machinery exporters depend on the Chinese market, favoured engagement and was wary of confrontation. Paris, more concerned with industrial sovereignty, pushed for tougher defensive tools. Now the two largest economies in the European Union are moving together. In […]
Part I Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda no longer looks like the organization that carried them out. Its numbers have grown, its territory has expanded, and its center of operations has moved thousands of miles from where it began – yet, by most measures, its capacity and […]
The Kiev regime’s attacks on Yandex data centers in several Russian cities have taken the military confrontation to a new level. Earlier, similar strikes were carried out by the Russian army as part of a Special military operation on the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Kiev regime. Thus, as […]
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