Open Dialogue Research Journal
INTRODUCTION by Eric Zuesse I asked ChatGPT: Can you provide me a detailed list of payments (loans and donations) to Ukraine’s government by foreign Governments and by the IMF and the World Bank and other entities of the U.S. empire, ever since Obama’s coup https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/fWkfpGCAAuw on 20-27 February 2014 that […]
Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]
That $45B was the bottom-line central estimate of a lengthy calculation by the most reliable general-purpose AI that I have tried, ChatGPT. It searched numerous Internet sources, including primary governmental documents, compared the Greenland agreement with other military-basing arrangements, examined the strategic functions the United States obtains, and used standard […]
This institutionalizes the “Strategy of Denial” on the world’s largest island by not only giving the US control over its security, but over its resources too, which could become a template that the US might replicate with others across Ibero-America and Africa as part of its systemic rivalry with China. […]
I asked ChatGPT: “Is Trump’s deal with Denmark and Greenland basically equivalent to the U.S. owning Greenland?” Not legally. But in the military-security sphere, the September 22, 2026 agreement gives the United States powers over Greenland that resemble some of the most important practical powers an owner—or sovereign—would possess. The […]
What’s most important is that Belarus coordinates all of this with Russia and that Lukashenko doesn’t pull any surprises on Putin that could inadvertently lead to mistrust or worse. Trump revealed that “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. […]
rl Friedrich Merz has been chancellor for just 16 months, and he’s already facing the kind of electoral test that could determine whether he serves out anything close to a full term. Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania went to the polls Sunday in elections that, on paper, are regional […]
On the twenty-seventh of August, Trebinje buried one of its own. The column moved slowly, VRS veterans in formation, alongside them mothers and widows. At the memorial in Priedor by evening there was no room left for candles: people placed them directly on the stone. In Zvornik portraits and flags […]
For much of the post-Cold War period, Slovakia occupied a relatively quiet place in European politics. Nestled between larger Central European powers and deeply integrated into the European Union and NATO, the country rarely shaped continental debates. Today, however, Prime Minister Robert Fico has transformed Slovakia into one of Europe’s […]
China’s economy is pulling in two directions at once, and July’s data makes the split harder to ignore. On one side, household spending is barely growing and the property sector remains locked in a multi-year collapse. On the other, factories are running hotter than ever, with high-tech manufacturing surging at […]
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