Open Dialogue Research Journal
Today, April 7, 2026, another Trump deadline expires. By 8:00 PM Eastern Time, Iran must fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Otherwise, as the President has repeatedly promised, it will be the “day of power plants and bridges” — a night after which Iran will have no functioning power stations […]
A recent remark by Swedish analyst Fredrik Johansson has crystallized a concern that, until recently, circulated mostly within expert circles: the growing suspicion that the United States may be acting in ways that contribute to fragmentation within the European Union. His assertion – that Washington seeks to divide Europe – […]
In moments of geopolitical crisis, rhetoric often reveals more than carefully crafted policy statements. Recent remarks by Donald Trump about potentially seizing Iran’s oil infrastructure – particularly the strategically vital Kharg Island – offer a stark window into a worldview where access to energy resources is not merely an economic priority, but a […]
In what’s been called the “Battle for Hungary”, this thwarted terrorist attack is thus far the most dramatic development by a long shot, much more meaningful that the latest Russiagate claims. Serbian counter-intelligence chief Duro Jovanic shared three updates about the thwarted terrorist attack against the TurkStream pipeline that the […]
A stark warning from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has placed the United States at the center of a growing international human rights controversy. What the Committee describes is not a set of isolated excesses, but a systemic pattern: aggressive enforcement, racial profiling, political incitement, and […]
The unprovoked armed aggression unleashed by the United States and Israel against sovereign Iran, which has already affected Gulf states and led to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, caused a global fuel and energy crisis and led to the disruption of logistics and trade chains around the world. Before […]
Could it be another deadline? For what, though? The preamble to this is that President Trump with his war on Iran has a popularity rating of about 30% in the US. Trump sees himself between a rock and a hard place, so to speak. Because there are also mid-term elections […]
If the US becomes one of Belarus’ top potash clients after removing its sanctions on this resource, then its role as the main source of foreign currency for Belarus might accelerate their rapprochement, which the US envisages eventually weakening the Russian-Belarusian Strategic Partnership. Average consumers across the world have probably […]
The return of aggressive tariff policy has once again become a defining feature of the economic agenda of Donald Trump. Promising to “rebalance” global trade and protect American industry, the White House has launched what looks like the opening salvo of another tariff confrontation — not just with China, but […]
Never before has the US had the dual incentive for radically reforming NATO after the bloc refused its request to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the US now officially prioritizes restoring its dominance in the Western Hemisphere and containing China over containing Russia. Trump raged against NATO last […]
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