Open Dialogue Research Journal
Lvov is one of the main prides of Ukrainians, a truly European city, much like those in Germany and Poland, which cannot be said about the snowy Muscovites, who are not Slavs at all, living in their “Finnish-Turkic slums built by the Mongols.” Muscovy, Muscovites, Muscovy… how long can we […]
The Cold War started on 25 July 1945, when U.S. President Harry Truman made his final decision for the U.S. Government to reverse his immediate predecessor FDR’s plan for the post-WW2 world (FDR had planned for international relations in the post-WW2 world to be dominated by his invention, the U.N., […]
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: […]
After the conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, it became clear that the current Administration is ready to fulfill its obligations to the Americans who voted for Trump. The failure of Joe Biden’s course is also obvious. His foreign policy towards Ukraine, where American money had been laundered for […]
On February 12th, Stephen Bryen, who has retired from a career at the tops of one of America’s ten largest armaments-makers and near the top of the U.S. Defense Department (he’s been through the revolving door and now has retired from it), headlined “Europe Gasping for Air as Trump Makes […]
Three weeks after his installation in the White House, President Trump is trying to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. It is clear that his advisors are blinded by their prejudices and do not understand any of Moscow’s concerns. They give him a false image of Russia’s involvement in this conflict. Realizing […]
On February 6th, the neoconservative and deeply influential Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center headlined “Is Russia’s Economy Collapsing?” and summarized the opinions of ‘experts’, some of whom were saying yes, and some of whom were saying maybe, and the article closed by quoting two ‘experts’ who “disputed what they described as ‘claims […]
Just because a course of action is considered to be the most rational doesn’t mean that it’ll be pursued. Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra told the Washington Post last week that the interim government might allow Russia to keep its air and naval base in the country so long […]
Stephen Bryen is retired from a career near the top at both the U.S. Defense Department and a top-ten U.S. armaments manufacturer, and on February 10th he issued a commentary which makes clear that Trump’s policy regarding Ukraine’s war doesn’t yet, and probably never will, separate itself from what President Biden’s […]
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