Open Dialogue Research Journal
https://www.instagram.com/p/DW8usW1DV1M/ 10 April 2026, NYT’s Jonathan Swan & Maggie Haberman, on how Trump made the decision to destroy Iran 00:00 Of all the people on Trump’s team, Donald Trump was the most hawkish when it came to Iran. 00:06 He decided to go to war on a gut feeling, period, […]
It’s a “Major Non-NATO Ally” located in proximity to the mission area and thus capable of providing logistical support at a minimum with the expectation that its formidable armed forces and nuclear weapons would deter Iranian retaliation if their shared Chinese partner is unable to disabuse it. Trump announced that the US […]
The Kremlin publicly said on Feb 4th, 2026 that President Xi Jinping invited President Vladimir Putin for an official China visit in the first half of 2026, and President Putin accepted. The visit would certainly be less about one dramatic announcement and more about locking in a broad package — […]
Nothing was actually signed. Trump had needed an excuse so he could claim he hadn’t been bluffing, thus claimed there was a deal. There were no negotiations. On Wednesday, April 8th, updated at 5:52 pm ET, the Wall Street Journal headlined “A Closer Look at Iran’s 10 Demands — and Which the U.S. Might Accept: […]
In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to enable conflict to continue. War as cosplay and camouflage. Under such fragile conditions, military objectives […]
Western policy toward China today looks like a battered old suitcase stuffed with clashing items: harsh tariffs and tech export bans sit right next to quiet European business delegations landing in Beijing, loud talk of systemic rivalry alongside real contracts for solar panels, batteries, and rare-earth materials. This is not […]
The Hungarian people have the greatest stakes since they’ll be the ones who’ll live with the consequences. Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Hungary have been described by RT as the “Battle for Hungary” due to the huge stakes involved for the EU, Ukraine, the US, and to a lesser extent, Russia. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZD6h-QRDI “Iran CUTS Israel’s GPS Signal, F-35s FLY BLIND, IDF Loses Air War, U.S PANICS | Douglas Macgregor” 9 April 2026, US Power Analysis and Ryan Mercer Insight 0:00 Welcome back to US Power Analytics. What you are about to hear is not a hypothetical war game exercise conducted 0:07 […]
The case of Jeffrey Epstein was once framed as a shocking anomaly – a grotesque example of individual depravity hidden behind wealth and influence. But years after his death and decades after the first allegations surfaced, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain that narrative. What emerged from the documents, […]
The Atlantic’s David Brooks said on the PBS Newshour on April 3rd “We’ve had to go to the Middle East for almost every decade 1:10 for the last 50 years because of radical Islam, which the Iranian regime typifies,” and their other Zionist falsehoods; but here is Larry Johnson saying nothing […]
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