Open Dialogue Research Journal
The BBC has pledged to mount a firm legal defense after US president Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British public broadcaster, accusing it of defamation and deceptive practices over its editing of his January 6, 2021 speech ahead of the storming of the US Capitol. The […]
11 April 2020 (but was removed without explanation, and so now is restored on 14 D On 4 March 2018, both Sergei Skripal and his daughter who was visiting from their shared home country of Russia, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in Salisbury England, and — though both survived — neither […]
Zelensky paid a state visit to Ireland last week. It is almost the last country in Europe that he has not visited. Local media emphasize that his main goal was to get as much money as possible to continue the war. However, Ireland was and remains a country whose foreign […]
Thanks to Starmer, Macron and Merz, NATO is on the rocks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited London on Monday, December 8 where he met with Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany. Two things happened: Zelensky made it clear (and expanded on the […]
In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his business to convince the mob (a) that it is confronted by some grave danger, some dreadful menace to its peace and security, and (b) […]
Putin recently proposed providing Europe, the majority of whose countries are part of NATO, with formal guarantees that it won’t attack. In connection with this, he also assessed that those who fearmonger about Russia are serving the interests of the military-industrial complex and/or trying to bolster their domestic image, which exposed […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FpsE9joEk “Morale breaks, panic spreads, big cauldron forming w/ Stanislav Krapivnik” 7 December 2025 Throughout the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-coverage of the war in Ukraine, the body-counts and other cited data have been coming almost exclusively from U.S.-and-allied sources and analyzed by U.S.-and-allied commentators, in the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Telegraph, CNN, BBC, […]
Europe is out of the Equation Neither the Russians or the Americans have revealed much about last Tuesday’s (Nov 2) meeting in Moscow. The meeting went on for five hours, and in parallel Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov was meeting with Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC […]
Had it not been downed over the Belarusian border city of Grodno and instead passed into Poland on the way to the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Centre like its recovered flight data revealed to be its route, it could have sparked a crisis that ruined the renascent peace […]
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service warned earlier the same day as Bloomberg’s report that the Brits are hellbent on discrediting Trump in order to undermine his latest peace efforts for resolving the conflict from which they profit. Bloomberg shared what it claimed to be the transcripts of calls between Trump’s Special Envoy […]
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