Open Dialogue Research Journal
The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he posed to gathered world leaders. All it seemed to do was “write a really […]
Starting in the summer of 2026, cinemas in Estonia will be prohibited from screening films with Russian dubbing or Russian voice-over. The only exception will be children’s and family films. All other motion pictures must be shown either in Estonian or in the original language (in the overwhelming majority of […]
Thanks to Starmer, Macron and Merz, NATO is on the rocks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited London on Monday, December 8 where he met with Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany. Two things happened: Zelensky made it clear (and expanded on the […]
The United States’ decision to skip the G20 summit in South Africa is not a matter of protocol, scheduling, or personality. It is a revealing political signal that exposes Washington’s growing discomfort with an international system in which it no longer exercises uncontested agenda-setting power. As the global economic and […]
Awareness of the threats that NATO poses along these three fronts and the division of labor between the top five states therein – Finland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, and Turkiye – enables Russia to devise the most effective countermeasures and propose the best means for managing future tensions. It was earlier […]
In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his business to convince the mob (a) that it is confronted by some grave danger, some dreadful menace to its peace and security, and (b) […]
On December 4th, Vanessa Beeley reported that the concrete wall which America and its allies have been building around Syia starting in 2008 is now nearly complete: https://beeley.substack.com/p/syria-is-becoming-a-walled-takfiri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvns_937Tw “Syria is becoming a walled Takfiri cauldron as border countries erect surveillance barriers” Vanessa Beeley, 4 December 2015 0:00 INTERVIEWER: I thought […]
Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from Venezuela to a watery grave has a millenarian zeal. But psychological coarseness and imperfection have […]
Analysts are rarely wrong in their forecasts, but they cannot always predict everything in advance. That is why the decline of the German economy must be judged after the fact. Nevertheless, it seems that we need to prepare for the worst. Last year, German exports fell by €1.55 billion. […]
Putin recently proposed providing Europe, the majority of whose countries are part of NATO, with formal guarantees that it won’t attack. In connection with this, he also assessed that those who fearmonger about Russia are serving the interests of the military-industrial complex and/or trying to bolster their domestic image, which exposed […]
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