Open Dialogue Research Journal
He just ordered that some of Russia’s LNG exports to the EU be redirected to Asia, and if the EU doesn’t coerce Zelensky into giving him more of what he wants in Ukraine, then there’d be no reason for him to not cut off Russia’s exports to them entirely for […]
To expand a stockpile of both the useless and the mindlessly murderous in a military sense would seem to be a wasteful exercise best contemplated in the psychiatric ward. But such a ward is increasingly occupied by the world’s leaders, and war is on their lost minds. As Israel and […]
Europe may soon face another energy crisis — this time triggered not by supply disruptions within the continent but by escalating military tensions thousands of kilometers away. The confrontation involving United States, Israel, and Iran is already reshaping global energy markets, pushing prices higher and threatening the fragile recovery of […]
If Turkiye launches a military intervention in Iran along the lines of its earlier ones in Iraq and Syria to stop what it considers to be Kurdish terrorists, then its Azerbaijani ally might make a move on what it considers to be “South Azerbaijan”, and then the Gulf Arabs and […]
Global energy markets are bracing for turbulence after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, prompting OPEC+ producers to announce a coordinated output increase of 206,000 barrels per day next month – slightly above expectations. The move, agreed to by the coalition of OPEC members, Russia and allied oil-producing nations, is […]
As the conflict in Iran intensifies, the United States has been exploring ways to leverage Kurdish militias and political groups, both in Iraq and Iran, to shape the outcome of the events. Recently, President Donald Trump contacted Kurdish leaders from both sides of the border to discuss the progress of […]
In late February 2026, a missile strike devastated the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, Hormozgan province. Around 165 pupils, mostly girls aged seven to twelve, along with teachers and staff, were killed. The school stood several hundred meters from an IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary […]
The recent joint attack by the United States and Israel on Iran marks a dramatic and dangerous escalation in the Middle East. According to security expert Roland Popp of the Military Academy at ETH Zurich, the assault was not a spontaneous response to an imminent nuclear threat but the culmination […]
From Iran’s perspective, they’re all complicit in the US’ massive first strike even if the role that US military infrastructure in their countries allegedly played was only indirect in the sense of providing radar or just logistical support, with this perception and its response thereto being totally predictable. Prior to […]
The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against Ukraine is, with its shattering of international law and its dismissiveness of the provisions of the United […]
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