Open Dialogue Research Journal
The annual threat assessment released in March 2026 by Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) in cooperation with the Second Investigation Department has drawn attention for its strikingly paradoxical logic. While Russia remains tied down in the war against Ukraine, the Baltic states – according to Lithuanian analysts — enjoy relative […]
In a striking reversal of long-standing transatlantic sentiment, a recent nationwide survey in Germany suggests that the United States is no longer widely perceived as a guarantor of global stability. Instead, it is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to world peace – second only to Russia. The findings, published […]
When Donald Trump threatened to “cut off all trade” with Spain following Madrid’s refusal to support military operations against Iran, the remark immediately sparked political shockwaves across Europe. The statement came shortly after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez publicly declared that Spain would not participate in the escalating conflict in […]
Iran’s rhetoric was highly reckless in any case since there was never any chance that the US would let the petroyuan dethrone the petrodollar without doing everything in its power to prevent this scenario. Trump denied in a social media post that the US knew about Israel’s attack against Iran’s South Pars […]
Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals. As a combat veteran of MAGA pedigree, he found favour with President Donald J. Trump, who rewarded him for his conspiracy blustering in a manner befitting other nominees baptised in […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFQ4a8JeE8 “Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump Intelligence Pick Joe Kent QUITS” 17 March 2026, Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid 0:05 5 seconds NIMA: Hi everybody. Today’s Tuesday, March 17, 0:09 9 seconds 2026 and our dear friend or brother Lawrence Wilkerson is here with us. Welcome back there. WILKERSON: Good to be with you. Have […]
On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court delivered one of the most consequential blows to President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. In the consolidated cases Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., the justices ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 does […]
With each dragged out day, President Donald Trump begins resembling a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but leave of everything else. Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he […]
At first glance, European leaders like Ursula von der Leyen appear to be standing up to the United States sparring over issues like Greenland, trade tariffs, and Iran. Yet beneath this surface bravado, the reality is strikingly different. Most European elites have been cultivated in a transatlantic environment so deeply […]
The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the usual prized duo that feature in the nervous chatter of global markets. There are other less conspicuous products that have also been snared […]
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