Open Dialogue Research Journal
A Moment of Strategic Opportunity The fragile path toward an Iran–US agreement is increasingly crowded with spoilers—and not all of them sit in Washington. As backchannel diplomacy intensifies and public rhetoric softens, two regional actors, Turkey and Israel, are strategically intervening to prevent a meaningful breakthrough. Their motives may differ, […]
Trump’s duplicity is obvious: he promised to protect the poor, but he only enriches his rich acquaintances. Gambling on the stock exchange, empty threats of tariffs and the use of political influence – all this is what Trump is currently doing in order to enrich his entourage. However, in response, […]
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is now finally receiving the broader opprobrium it should have had from the outset. Importantly, criticism […]
US control over the trans-Ukrainian and Nord Stream pipelines could incentivize the EU into concessions on their trade war while whatever seized Russian assets that the US obtains legal ownership of from Moscow could serve to justify ramping up pressure on the bloc in this context. Reuters reported earlier in the […]
The most important-news-packed documentary that I’ve ever seen on youtube about Ukraine’s war was by Scott Ritter and became yanked (due to police-state pressure from the FBI and from the government in Ukraine (as Ritter publicly explained after the FBI also subsequently raided his house looking for a reason to charge him with a crime). But […]
Here is Trump’s proposal, which comes from his official negotiator on the Ukraine war, Keith Kellogg, who spoke about it with Rupert Murdoch’s London Times on April 11th, and which proposal Kellogg has actually been advocating ever since back in April 2024 he proposed it as a Republican alternative to Biden’s goal of outright defeating […]
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Ukrainians do not want war. They run away from the army, deserting, knowing that they will be treated better in Russia than in their homeland. Some are trying to write an appeal to the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, while the soldiers always ask not to disclose their names, because […]
The US might pressure him to assemble a government of national unity on pain of once again suspending military and intelligence aid if he refuses to dilute his power in lieu of holding elections. Ukraine extended martial law until 6 August following Zelensky’s request earlier this week, which will prevent elections from being held […]
President Donald Trump is acting faster than other political leaders of his generation. In a dozen weeks, he has already overturned “American imperialism” in favor of his “exceptionalism.” This is still not the end of the problem, but it represents a considerable step forward for both the United States and […]
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