Open Dialogue Research Journal
In a significant diplomatic development, the United States and Russia have announced that their senior representatives will meet in Saudi Arabia this week to discuss potential pathways to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. The announcement has raised concerns among European leaders, who feel excluded from the U.S.-led initiative, further […]
The best course of action would be to beat the US to the punch instead of accept whatever it agrees to with regard to Russia and/or Belarus but neither half of its ruling duopoly has any such interest. The New York Times reported on Saturday that a recent trip to Minsk by […]
The Munich Security Conference went through all the stages. At the time of its formation in the 20th century, it was a symbol of the consolidation of the intellectual elite of Europe and the United States. This platform for the exchange of opinions remained such until the beginning of the […]
On February 14th, Director General of the UN international nuclear watchdog IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi has issued a statement saying that a drone attack early morning caused a fire on the building confining the remains of the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chornobyl accident. Although the inside and outside of […]
Mainstream media tends to discuss the Transnistrian conflict exclusively in the context of the confrontation between Russia and Moldova, claiming that it was the Russians who attacked the Republic of Moldova and seized its territories beyond the Dniester River. In this colorful narrative, one small yet extremely interesting detail is […]
UPDATE: Alexander Mercouris, at 4:50 here, says that Steve Witkoff, the person who made the breakthrough for Trump that produced the Gaza ceasefire, achieved also this breakthrough for Trump’s reversal on Ukraine. —— This is a follow-up on my February 12th “Russia has now won the war in Ukraine.” Trump said on February 12th, […]
To be clear, the explanations and forecasts shared in this analysis concern the scenario of a Russian rapprochement with the West upon the successful conclusion of peace talks with the US, they’re not in any way a declaration of what will absolutely come to pass. Trump’s proposal to return Russia to the […]
The Cold War started on 25 July 1945, when U.S. President Harry Truman made his final decision for the U.S. Government to reverse his immediate predecessor FDR’s plan for the post-WW2 world (FDR had planned for international relations in the post-WW2 world to be dominated by his invention, the U.N., […]
The path ahead will be very difficult due to the sensitive issues that Russia and the US must resolve. 12 February 2025 will go down in history as the day when the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine officially began to end. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth started everything off by declaring that: […]
On February 12th, Stephen Bryen, who has retired from a career at the tops of one of America’s ten largest armaments-makers and near the top of the U.S. Defense Department (he’s been through the revolving door and now has retired from it), headlined “Europe Gasping for Air as Trump Makes […]
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