Open Dialogue Research Journal
This will be a commentary upon the following interview of Alexander Mercouris, who knows more history and understands and interprets today’s world affairs on that basis (an encyclopedic knowledge of not only history but the empirically — that is to say, historically — based social sciences), more than anyone else […]
Over the past several decades, the United States Navy stood as the undisputed ruling power of the world’s oceans. The numerical advantage as well technological superiority of Its aircraft carriers, submarines, and destroyers could not be challenged by any other potential rival. This guaranteed American military presence across every continent, […]
On both international affairs and domestic affairs, Trump is governing as a classic fascist — or, as Mussolini also called his ideology, “corporationist”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZl67PwZ5E “Why Diplomacy Just Collapsed … | Max Blumenthal” 4 October 2025 Trump is on the warpath against all. Domestically, he is on the warpath against specifically America’s […]
When there are no resources or opportunities left to resist, a peace treaty is signed. Not a truce, but a treaty. Today, Ukraine is in a situation where a peace treaty is still possible. However, if the losing side refuses to sign for some reason, the parties sign a surrender […]
The supplementary economic benefits and perceived acceleration of multipolar trends might appeal to Russia, but the latent military-strategic threats to its interests arguably outweigh them. The “New Rules” telegram channel, which his associated with Sputnik’s former podcast of the same name, posted in late September about plans to revive the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul railway. […]
Pakistani-US ties are on the cusp of a renaissance that could restore their Old Cold War-era “golden age” of relations provided that they remain on track as expected. Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan…were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that […]
He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons to be pleased. On September 29, […]
The world has been captivated by footage from the SCO summit in Tianjin: Narendra Modi laughing alongside Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. For some, it’s a “sinister specter” with horns; for others, a symbol of a multipolar future. Western media is in a frenzy: “This photo should send a chill […]
These are the 2020 Lublin Triangle (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania), the 2022 de facto alliance between Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, and early August’s Odessa Triangle with Romania and Moldova. Russia has in recent years consistently accused the West of turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia” for containment purposes, in response […]
The US is poised to “sell” Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. US special envoy to Ukraine, retired general Keith Kellogg, says only the final decision has to be made. The US has already agreed, Kellogg said, for deep attacks on Russian territory, and only the release of the Tomahawks is […]
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