Open Dialogue Research Journal
The rapid escalation of the war involving Iran has forced the world’s leading industrial economies to confront an uncomfortable reality: the global energy system remains dangerously vulnerable to geopolitical shocks. As oil prices surge and supply routes through the Persian Gulf face disruption, finance ministers from the Group of Seven are preparing emergency discussions […]
The Islamabad summit between the United States and Iran, initially presented as a historic opportunity for peace, has now concluded without any agreements – an outcome that, in retrospect, appears less surprising than inevitable. While the talks were framed as a high-level effort at de-escalation, the structural conditions surrounding the […]
The EU- and Ukrainian- backed Hungarian opposition just won a two-thirds supermajority in the latest parliamentary elections that ended Viktor Orban’s 16 years in office. His crushing defeat followed the EU earlier freezing €17 billion in allocated funds on rule of law pretexts, Russiagate conspiracy theories derived from wiretaps of Orban and his Foreign Minister, and Ukrainian […]
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. […]
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