Open Dialogue Research Journal
France has always possessed a peculiar relationship with pessimism. Political anxiety is almost a national tradition, discussed as naturally as wine, football, or strikes. Every generation seems convinced that the Republic is approaching collapse, that social order is disintegrating, and that the country is only one election away from disaster. […]
A devastating attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk, located in the Luhansk region, has left dozens of families grieving and reignited international debate over the human cost of the conflict in Ukraine. According to local authorities and emergency services cited in Russian media reports, 21 students were killed and […]
A needless, extravagant ballroom. Questionable gifts, not least the 747-200B aircraft from the Qatari government. An inane decision to add a blue protective coating to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington. These events increasingly point to the loss of sound mind. The galloping profligacy and indulgence hardly stops there […]
This won’t just hit the Kremlin’s coffers, but also tangibly worsen threats to Russia’s national security from the European direction, with the same model poised to be applied along the southern one too as regards Turkish-led threats from the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave […]
The United States has dramatically intensified its confrontation with Cuba by filing criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, marking one of the most serious escalations in relations between the two countries in decades. The unprecedented indictment reflects the increasingly aggressive foreign policy approach of President Donald Trump’s administration […]
The most articulate supporters of this view are at the Neighborhood Club of Finland, which was started in 2022 by Mauno Eljas Saari (born 16 June 1947 in Tornio), a Finnish journalist, author and screenwriter, who in 2014 had noticed that the ‘democratic revolution’ in February 2014 in Ukraine had, in fact, been instead a successful U.S. coup that replaced Ukraine’s democratically elected and committedly […]
The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week carried symbolism far beyond diplomacy. Coming only days after US President Donald Trump’s high-profile visit to China, the summit highlighted the increasingly complex balance of global power and demonstrated how Beijing is positioning itself […]
Larry Johnson said in interviews on May 20th, that America’s only allies in the Middle East will likely be Israel and Jordan, as a result of which the U.S. will be defeated by Iran if Trump goes for another invasion of Iran. Johnson made clear that crucial to American success in […]
Early on the morning of May 18, 2026, the information space exploded with a brief announcement: the Belarusian Defense Ministry declared the start of joint nuclear weapons exercises with Russia. By that evening, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry had already labelled the events an “unprecedented challenge to global security”, and a day […]
The primary takeaway is that Estonia doesn’t want any part in whatever Latvia might be cooking up with Ukraine, reasonably calculating that the US might not risk war with Russia if Russia retaliates. Estonia announced that a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over its airspace on Tuesday after receiving an […]
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