Open Dialogue Research Journal
Although US President Donald Trump has made several public statements expressing his desire to end the Ukrainian conflict “in 24 hours”, “before inauguration”, “in 30 days”, “before Easter”, reality seems to be more complex than expected. The negotiation process is dragging on, and the US President himself seems irritated that […]
Interoperability issues could make the US think twice about intervening in the EU’s support against Russia. “Trump Is Unlikely To Pull All US Troops Out Of Central Europe Or Abandon NATO’s Article 5”, but he’s definitely “Pivoting (back) to Asia” in order to more muscularly contain China, which will have […]
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would spring up from rust belt soil in a few months across the United States; that industries would, unmoored from the […]
What Trump is doing to Europe today is not just disrespecting his partner. The Americans have shown where Europe really is located in their coordinate system. Despite this, Ursula von der Leyen continues to get off with half measures and does everything to ensure that cooperation with the Americans continues. […]
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a series of sweeping tariffs on foreign imports, marking a significant shift in U.S. trade policy. These measures include a universal 10% tariff on all imports, with higher rates targeting specific countries such as China (34%), the European Union (20%), and Japan […]
Creative economic diplomacy was the key to getting their increasingly stalled talks back on track. Russian Special Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who’s also the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, paid a visit to DC last week to continue negotiations with the US over bilateral ties and Ukraine. His […]
As soon as Trump decides to withdraw troops from Germany, Germans risk facing a full-scale security crisis in the country. Recently, reports appeared in the British media, according to which, according to unconfirmed information, the Americans plan to move most of their troops from Germany to Hungary. From a logical […]
Even during his election campaign, the current US President criticized the activities of the world-famous USAID organization. After returning to the White House, D. Trump began an active struggle with the entire US bureaucratic machine, which is a source of huge expenses for the federal budget, as well as the […]
On April 2nd, Reuters headlined “US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally”, which means that Trump’s demand for Europe to increase greatly its ‘defense’ spending is, indeed, part of his plan to keep the boom in the U.S. stock markets going. This needs to be understood in the relevant […]
At first glance, Russia’s proposal to mediate between Iran and the United States may seem like a pragmatic step toward easing regional tensions and stabilizing a new Eurasian order. As a key player in the Tehran-Moscow-Beijing axis, Moscow appears eager to use diplomacy to bridge the longstanding rift between Tehran […]
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