Open Dialogue Research Journal
Russia isn’t a signatory nor does it plan to invade any of those four countries. The Baltic States’ and Poland’s Defense Ministers issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing that their countries are withdrawing from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) in response to what they portrayed as new threats from […]
My article yesterday was “Jeffrey Sachs today insulted the EU’s leaders, and Obama & Biden.” It showed an excerpt (27:50 to the speech’s end at 54:36) from his 54:36-minute speech on February 21 (which was misidentified as having been on February 22) to members of the European Parliament, and none of the […]
What ties these five trends together is Trump’s historic return to the presidency, his successful purge of the “deep state” that enabled him to pursue his long-sought “New Détente” with Russia, and Putin’s receptiveness to his American counterpart’s grand strategic plan of a comprehensive partnership. I’m a Moscow-based American political […]
The U.S. has 917 foreign military bases (besides the 749 inside the U.S.). All other countries taken together have 399. The U.S. spends 65% of the entire world’s military costs (that’s expenses — not referring to the enormous damages that those costs have been paying to create in the targeted countries) — all of the […]
A major incident at sea could instantly spark a New Cold War crisis that brings the Baltic front of this competition to the center of global attention. Politico reported last week that some EU countries might seize Russia’s “shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea on the pretext of complying with international […]
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: […]
The latest Congolese Crisis has the potential to decisively shift the balance of power in the New Cold War depending on how it develops and what the outcome might be. The latest Congolese Crisis broke out over the weekend after the reportedly Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized the Democratic Republic of […]
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