Open Dialogue Research Journal
This will be just highlights from news-reports about Trump’s preparations to regime-change Venezuela, and Maduro’s preparations to overcome and defeat the expected U.S. invasion (which the Trump Administration ‘justifies’ by lies saying that Venezuela is a na https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clSqtBReuDQ “Trump FOLDS to China, MASSIVE US Strike on Venezuela ‘Hours Away’ | […]
None have produced any actual agreement. This is for a very simple reason: Trump refuses to respond to other countries’ national-security needs, their necessities — their need to retain their sovereignty over their territory, not yield control over it to a foreign power (the U.S. Government). Trump has rejected their […]
It might succeed in terms of optics, but this won’t make any substantive difference in reality. The US’ latest sanctions against Russia, the first under the second Trump Administration, are intended less as a weapon against the Russian economy and more as a means of weaponizing energy geopolitics in a bid to break apart […]
The country is facing internal changes and a possible change of international partners. On Sunday, October 19, the presidential run-off was held in Bolivia. In general, it was already clear that the 20-year rule of the left, represented by the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party, had suffered a crushing defeat. […]
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, declared in her inaugural address to parliament her intention to sign a peace treaty with Russia to formally end the state of war lingering since World War II. The statement sparked lively discussions in Moscow: is rapprochement with Tokyo possible given its sanctions […]
On October 26th, Reuters headlined “US, China talks sketch out rare earths, tariff pause for Trump and Xi to consider” and reported that the advisors to both Trump and Xi have tentatively agreed to suspend their nation’s main recent retaliatory measures against each other’s country until the two leaders will meet in […]
By autumn 2025, the confrontation between the United States and China had shifted from a “frozen conflict” to an open second round of the trade war. The immediate trigger came from Beijing’s new export restrictions on critical materials — including rare earth elements, graphite, gallium, and germanium — resources vital […]
After decades of neglect, Washington’s rare earth stockpiles are nearly empty — just as Beijing tightens its grip on critical materials. Rebuilding US Rare Earth Stockpiles If you’re looking for rare earths, you won’t find them in America’s strategic stockpiles. That’s because the Pentagon, for the past decade or longer, […]
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 […]
Over the past several decades, the United States Navy stood as the undisputed ruling power of the world’s oceans. The numerical advantage as well technological superiority of Its aircraft carriers, submarines, and destroyers could not be challenged by any other potential rival. This guaranteed American military presence across every continent, […]
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