Open Dialogue Research Journal
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner wound up their visit to Kiev on September 6 after visiting Moscow the day prior. In both capitals, the US special diplomatic duo met with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky respectively. Both offered solutions that the Russians seemed to like, and the Ukrainians did not. […]
Mystery continues about the strange Ratcliffe visit to Moscow, flying there in a massive C-17 Globemaster, a military airlifter. While the Globemaster has a specially designed secure roll off and roll on module for top officials, keeping them harnessed to Washington and the President, the choice of aircraft, instead of […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned airlines, insurers, and foreign governments that Russian airspace “will be de facto closed” because of Ukrainian drones. He said that while Ukraine does not threaten civil aviation, carriers flying to Moscow, St. Petersburg, or other major hubs must factor in the risk of drones in Russian […]
There is very little information on CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Even so, there is enough information to make some observations. One reason for Ratcliffe’s visit was to warn Moscow about replacing the Kiev regime which, Washington fears, may be on the verge of collapse. The idea of a […]
On August 6, 2026 a Town Hall Meeting between Navy officials including Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and more than 200 family members of the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln took place at the Naval Air Station on North Island, San Diego. North Island is the home port of […]
During their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump and President Zelensky reached a major agreement regarding Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile interceptors. The PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability-3) is the premier hit to kill air defense missile used by the US and by many US allies. […]
The UK military is in poor shape In the 1950s and 1960s, a massive wave of underground humor swept across the USSR and the Eastern Bloc featuring a fictional broadcaster called Armenian Radio (known in the West as Radio Yerevan). One of the jokes involved food lines and food scarcity, […]
Russia has Surrounded a Ukrainian Satellite 547 km above the earth Between May 14 and May 20 Russia repositioned five of six recently launched Cosmos military satellites (Cosmos 2610, 2611, 2612, 2613, 2614 ) from an orbital inclination of 97.0 degrees to 97.8 degrees, putting the Cosmos satellites on the same orbital […]
The Trump-Putin Phone Call on 29 April lasted 90 minutes, both sides report. The call was initiated by Russia. President Vladimir Putin told Trump that the current cease fire in the Iran war was a good thing as it created space needed for negotiations. Russia formally offered its services as […]
The US Faces Significant Challenges from China, Russia and North Korea In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. The Senator, later President, said: “The Soviet Union is rapidly building up a missile striking […]
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