Open Dialogue Research Journal
The 36th NATO Summit, held in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, marked far more than another annual gathering of allied leaders. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing strategic competition with China, and increasingly visible disagreements between the United States and its European […]
Deeply rooted in Western political and public consciousness, modern Russophobia has a long-term existential character, dictated not only by strategic political and economic interests, but also by centuries-old civilizational confrontation. This hostility is fully reflected in the political and cultural code of the West, which views Russia not as a […]
In the third millennium, perhaps, this is the first anniversary of such a significant figure who really changed the course of history in the twentieth century (all previous leaders who had a huge impact in the same century – we are talking about constructive influence, were born in the 19th […]
As of July 23, 2026, the U.S. war with Iran has moved beyond the question of whether Washington can strike Iranian targets. It can. The United States has overwhelming military superiority in airpower, naval reach, intelligence, cyber operations, logistics, and precision weapons. The real question is whether this military superiority […]
It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely US-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central […]
He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate on the election result of 2020, when he lost to the Democratic contender, Joe Biden. In doing so, he mirrors the anxieties of the Democrats who lost in […]
At the G7 in Évian‑les‑Bains, Donald Trump walked in late, announced “I’m the boss!”, and the room laughed. (AP News) () Days later, Giorgia Meloni – who had positioned herself as Trump’s favourite European – found herself on the receiving end of a public slap. In an interview with Italy’s […]
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, goes the adage of the ancient Romans that every schoolboy knows. Regrettably, in the case of the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham finding laudatory words is a nearly impossible task. George Galloway was on point in calling Graham “a perfectly revolting specimen, and a poor excuse for a human […]
The Trump administration has quietly opened a new legal immigration pathway for foreign dairy workers, marking a significant shift in U.S. agricultural labor policy after years of lobbying from the dairy industry. The move broadens the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program to include dairy farms for the first time, addressing […]
Russia continues its long-term strategy to develop the Arctic, develop new oil and gas fields, turning the Northern Sea Route into the most important transit and the shortest sea transport artery between Europe and Asia, which is fully under Russian control, and all escort of ships along it is provided […]
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