Open Dialogue Research Journal
He says that Russia’s view is realistic, which America’s and the rest of The West’s is not. I think everyone should hear Scott Ritter and read the transcript that I offer here of his complete statement, because I fundamentally agree with what he says, and I believe that all of […]
Russia creatively employed “reflexive control” to troll Estonia by placing its officials in a zero-sum dilemma whereby whichever response they’d resort to would advance Russia’s soft power interests. Estonia’s temporary closure of a road through the Russian-controlled “Saatse Boot” after around 10 Russian troops were spotted standing in the middle of it […]
Trump has some options if he takes them US President Donald Trump, in the midst of his triumph ending the Gaza war and gaining the return of the Israeli hostages, is jacking up the pressure on Russia. The major threat, but not the only one, is the threat to deliver […]
The US and Ukraine’s arguably coordinated fearmongering campaign about the regional security consequences of Cubans allegedly fighting for Russia hints that the island will soon come under more pressure. Reuters exclusively reported in early October that the State Department sent an unclassified cable to dozens of US missions directing diplomats to […]
Germans are convinced that they cannot ensure Ukraine’s security on their own. Therefore, after Donald Trump announced that he would not participate in a ground operation in Ukraine or station troops there, the Germans also abandoned the idea, deciding instead to focus on providing financial aid. Many, if not all, […]
The precedent set by Russia’s restrained response to Ukraine obtaining the F-16s, which could also be nuclear-equipped, suggests that tensions with the US will remain manageable if Ukraine obtains the Tomahawks too due to the modus vivendi that’s arguably been in place for managing them. The latest talk about the […]
Recently, there was a news report that Ukraine had carried out a successful counteroffensive in the east of the country, recapturing 160 square kilometres from Russia. There is no way to verify this information, as confirmed by Bild correspondents in Kyiv. No one will go to the front and try […]
It wasn’t expected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone’s surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially at the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of […]
The “race of logistics” between Russia and NATO, which is presently unfolding in the context of their proxy war in Ukraine, will continue even after the conflict ends. Britain, France, Germany, and Poland are usually the first countries to come to mind among those who discuss NATO’s containment of Russia, but the […]
This will be a commentary upon the following interview of Alexander Mercouris, who knows more history and understands and interprets today’s world affairs on that basis (an encyclopedic knowledge of not only history but the empirically — that is to say, historically — based social sciences), more than anyone else […]
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