Open Dialogue Research Journal
Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017 as a politician of a new kind: a technocrat, unbound by traditional parties, a champion of modernization, progress, and European integration. He was positioned as an alternative to rising populist and radical political figures. Yet by the midpoint of his second presidential term, […]
Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of outfits. It can adopt an absurd visage that renders the subject comical and lacking in credibility. That subject is the European Union, that curious collective of cobbled, sometimes erratic nation […]
Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who is unexcelled as a direct-speaking explainer of military strategies — succinctly but without any compromises with whatever relevant truths have already been solidly documented — tells why Trump is trying to end America’s direct involvement in the war between Israel and Iran (which Israel had started […]
An American president has betrayed his own people Donald Trump came to the White House for the second time on a wave of the idea that he is the only President since Carter who has not started a single war. He emphasized that military action was not in the interests […]
Bibi, other members of the Israeli government, and anti-Iranian hawks within Trump’s own convinced him that a window of opportunity has opened up to knock Iran out of the geopolitical game for good. Trump’s decision to bomb several nuclear sites in Iran is the due to him letting Israel shape the conflict’s […]
The Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations has existed for 80 years. The Israeli strikes on military and nuclear facilities in Iran, followed by the American use of GBU-57A/B bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities, indicate that the status quo that has existed for the past 80 years has been destroyed. There […]
Hours after the U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a direct military strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, the world stands on the edge of a dangerous precipice. This unprecedented attack, occurring in the early hours of last night, marks a significant escalation in the confrontation between Washington and Tehran, and […]
President Trump’s decision to launch attacks on three of Iran’s major nuclear enrichment sites took place after negotiations in Geneva collapsed. Iran’s foreign minister met with the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, France, known as the E3, plus the EU. The E-3 and EU group pressed the Iranians to engage […]
The German Defense Minister arrived in Kiev last week on an unannounced visit. There was a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, where they discussed not only new tranches at the expense of the Germans, but also the transfer of military technology. The real blow for Zelensky was Germany’s refusal to supply […]
As Israel and Iran edge closer to all‑out war, the European Union — led by figures such as French President Emmanuel Macron — is demonstrating a stark and troubling inconsistency. Paris and its EU allies have unequivocally backed Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran, while vocally chastising Israel’s prior actions […]
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