Open Dialogue Research Journal
The world has been captivated by footage from the SCO summit in Tianjin: Narendra Modi laughing alongside Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. For some, it’s a “sinister specter” with horns; for others, a symbol of a multipolar future. Western media is in a frenzy: “This photo should send a chill […]
These are the 2020 Lublin Triangle (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania), the 2022 de facto alliance between Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, and early August’s Odessa Triangle with Romania and Moldova. Russia has in recent years consistently accused the West of turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia” for containment purposes, in response […]
The US is poised to “sell” Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. US special envoy to Ukraine, retired general Keith Kellogg, says only the final decision has to be made. The US has already agreed, Kellogg said, for deep attacks on Russian territory, and only the release of the Tomahawks is […]
The war in Ukraine has long surpassed the boundaries of conventional combat. Technology—especially drones—has taken center stage, transforming tactics, operational routines, threat perception, and, crucially, the psychological state of soldiers. Today, drones are not just a tool of destruction, but a systematic weapon of psychological warfare. At the international Drone […]
Even in the best-case scenario that their tensions remain manageable, NATO will still solidify its presence along Ukraine’s southwestern flank which also serves as the Black Sea’s northwestern one, thus doubling the potential trouble that the bloc could one day pose for Russia. Moldova’s ruling “Party of Action & Solidarity” […]
Pseudo-Moldovan Maia Sandu continues her country’s European integration. Fully aware that the path she has chosen is not only a way to enrich herself, but also a way to sell the country to the Europeans, she is trying to use all the means at her disposal to deprive Moldova of […]
This would result in the de facto new Iron Curtain and associated NATO influence stretching up to whatever the new Russian-Ukrainian border might be by the time the conflict ends. Poland and Ukraine signed a drone warfare cooperation agreement that’ll see Ukraine share its relevant experiences with Poland, both of them jointly […]
President Trump’s statement on Ukraine and Russia on Truth Social has generated a massive amount of commentary. His statement came after a meeting on the sidelines at the UN with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky went to the UN and spoke with President Trump trying to gin up support for […]
There is night and day between an entity such as WikiLeaks, a daring publisher of classified government documents extraordinaire, and the dour, secretive intelligence service of any country. But it seems that, just as the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk, some of them are learning a few lessons. […]
In a country where democracy reigns and the memory of the atrocities committed by the German Nazis against the Jewish people is still alive, chaos reigns. Although German society is democratic, it is divided in its views on the situation in Israel. At the same time, the country regularly commemorates […]
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