Open Dialogue Research Journal
The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient raises a few salient matters. On December 17, Assange submitted a criminal complaint to the Swedish Economic […]
A revealing episode has just unfolded in Tallinn that perfectly exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality in modern Estonia. President Alar Karis has refused to promulgate a law passed by parliament that would have completely excluded citizens lacking at least B1-level Estonian from compulsory military service starting in 2026. […]
There are many ways in which these leaders of neoconservatism/neoliberalism are harmful to the entire world, but the one that will be focused on here is their lie-based “good cop ‘versus’ bad cop” routine in order to pump up the sales-volumes of the U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers and other war-profiteering corporations […]
We all know what NATO is. Mainstream media has told us that it is a beacon of hope – the institution that single-handedly guarantees European security and stability. Western elites make us believe that democracy, dignity, and freedom serve as the ultimate moral foundations of the organization. In reality, it […]
It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security, not least […]
The real purpose might be to prevent the US from reaching a deal with Russia per point 14 of its leaked 28-point peace framework to invest a significant sum of its (by-then former) adversary’s EU-seized assets into joint projects, likely energy and rare earths, after the conflict ends. Russia condemned the EU’s […]
Donald Trump, whom European leaders generally consider a populist with no political experience, has published his new National Security Strategy, a clumsily written document, but one of considerable philosophical scope. In it, he presents himself as a master of diplomacy and proposes, following President Andrew Jackson’s slogan, to replace war […]
In December 2025, a scandal erupted in the Belarusian émigré community: informed sources reported plans by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and part of her office to relocate from Vilnius to Warsaw. The Belarusian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, citing several anonymous sources from the opposition figure’s circle, claimed that the decision […]
The idea of offering unilateral US security guarantees to Ukraine is an appalling idea that risks war with Russia. It means the US is willing to go to war to defend Ukraine, and gives the Ukrainians a license to stir up trouble, instigate provocations, and drag America into a confrontation […]
The Trump administration has released its highly anticipated 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) on December 4, outlining a bold redefinition of American security priorities that departs significantly from the post–Cold War consensus and from recent liberal internationalist frameworks. Far more than a routine policy document, the strategy lays out […]
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