Open Dialogue Research Journal
Europe Needs to Rethink Support for Zelensky Zelensky’s maximalist position, supported by the UK, France and Germany, is at odds with public opinion in Ukraine. A new, dramatic Gallup Poll makes clear that Zelensky and his hardline clique don’t represent what Ukrainians want. Here is what Gallup reports: “More than three years […]
We will have to wait and see In New York they say Fuhgeddaboudit, which translated into mid-Western English is “Forget About It.” Right now there is so much speculation about the upcoming Trump Putin meeting in Alaska, their first meeting in the second Trump administration. Zelensky in Ukraine is deeply […]
Witkoff Putin Talks Very Productive Says Trump The big news is that Trump has pronounced the Witkoff-Putin talks as very productive. He has further announced he will meet with Putin face to face as soon as next week. He spoke to Putin by telephone today. Trump also says that he intends […]
The Bank Speaks Through its Center for Geopolitics J.P. Morgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States. It has a global trends advisory organization called the Center for Geopolitics. The study believes the war’s likely outcome is a mixed deal between Russia and Ukraine without foreign troops or security guarantees. […]
Recent US export control decisions imperil national security and threaten not only US artificial intelligence “dominance” but potentially many other emerging technologies critical to military programs. While legal US exports of AI-related semiconductors were blocked, China got at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia chips illegally, mostly in “packages” of data-center-ready […]
Microsoft was caught with its pants down in a brilliant exposé by Propublica that said that a major part of the Defense Department’s Cloud Computer system was run by Chinese engineers and monitored by so-called Digital Escorts who supposedly looked out for any compromise of DOD information. Now, when Senator Tom Cotton called […]
There are other scenarios Air India Flight 171 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all but one onboard and many people on the ground outside the airport perimeter. It is now widely understood that a preliminary report, based on information gleaned from the recovered voice and data recorders, and from simulations […]
The recent massive bombings on Ukrainian territory and advances by the Russian army are harbingers of the end game that will befall Ukraine unless that country can find a way out. One solution is to make Ukraine a flexible actor, meaning to insulate Zelensky. The best way to do that […]
NATO has sort of agreed to raise defense spending to 5% of Gross Domestic Product, although Spain has openly balked and has refused to do so. This sort of NATO target does not require unanimous agreement because it isn’t mandatory. That means each NATO member will try to reach the goal, […]
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 […]
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