Open Dialogue Research Journal
The American president still wants to go down in history. His desire to play a decisive role in American foreign policy is entirely justified by his position and status in society. Unlike his fiercely liberal predecessors, he has taken a much clearer and more definite course. The new National Security […]
Russia could provide the US with reliable access to the critical resource supply chains that might be established on its territory, which the US requires for “outcompeting” or at least keeping pace with China, in exchange for the US reforming the European security architecture in partnership with Russia. The Eurasian […]
U.S. President Donald Trump announced casually, on December 10th, during an event at the White House, “We’ve just seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela – large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually.” If that statement is true, then the U.S. Government has now engaged in a huge act […]
The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he posed to gathered world leaders. All it seemed to do was “write a really […]
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 […]
The United States’ decision to skip the G20 summit in South Africa is not a matter of protocol, scheduling, or personality. It is a revealing political signal that exposes Washington’s growing discomfort with an international system in which it no longer exercises uncontested agenda-setting power. As the global economic and […]
Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from Venezuela to a watery grave has a millenarian zeal. But psychological coarseness and imperfection have […]
Analysts are rarely wrong in their forecasts, but they cannot always predict everything in advance. That is why the decline of the German economy must be judged after the fact. Nevertheless, it seems that we need to prepare for the worst. Last year, German exports fell by €1.55 billion. […]
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, […]
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