Open Dialogue Research Journal
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, […]
The grand strategic goal is to restore the US’ central role in the global system, but if that’s not possible and it loses control of the Eastern Hemisphere to China, then Plan B is to retreat to the Western Hemisphere. Trump 2.0 just released its National Security Strategy (NSS). It […]
Part I Should Washington follow through with a full exclusion at Miami, it would also set a dangerous precedent: a G20 host unilaterally defining which members are “deserving” of participation and which are not. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has responded with carefully calibrated anger. Officials describe Trump’s statements as “regrettable” […]
Europe is out of the Equation Neither the Russians or the Americans have revealed much about last Tuesday’s (Nov 2) meeting in Moscow. The meeting went on for five hours, and in parallel Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov was meeting with Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC […]
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