Open Dialogue Research Journal
Beijing these days looks like a true global crossroads. First Donald Trump, then Vladimir Putin, and right after them – Aleksandar Vučić. The Serbian president didn’t miss the chance to emphasize this sequence, calling his state visit from May 24–28, 2026, the “crown of his political career.” It’s a predictable […]
This trend poses a significant threat to Russia, but it also poses an equally significant one to the EU too if it leads to Putin taking seriously his hardliners’ appeals to launch a first strike against NATO. There’s recently been a flurry of news about the increasingly interconnected Arctic and […]
Belgrade is methodically building a military alliance with a state that is waging war in Gaza and trading strikes with Iran. The agreement that the Parliamentary Defence Committee approved in an “urgent procedure” on 29 April 2026 () is merely a formal framework for what has already taken place: Serbia […]
France has always possessed a peculiar relationship with pessimism. Political anxiety is almost a national tradition, discussed as naturally as wine, football, or strikes. Every generation seems convinced that the Republic is approaching collapse, that social order is disintegrating, and that the country is only one election away from disaster. […]
The most articulate supporters of this view are at the Neighborhood Club of Finland, which was started in 2022 by Mauno Eljas Saari (born 16 June 1947 in Tornio), a Finnish journalist, author and screenwriter, who in 2014 had noticed that the ‘democratic revolution’ in February 2014 in Ukraine had, in fact, been instead a successful U.S. coup that replaced Ukraine’s democratically elected and committedly […]
Early on the morning of May 18, 2026, the information space exploded with a brief announcement: the Belarusian Defense Ministry declared the start of joint nuclear weapons exercises with Russia. By that evening, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry had already labelled the events an “unprecedented challenge to global security”, and a day […]
The primary takeaway is that Estonia doesn’t want any part in whatever Latvia might be cooking up with Ukraine, reasonably calculating that the US might not risk war with Russia if Russia retaliates. Estonia announced that a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over its airspace on Tuesday after receiving an […]
The United States is preparing to scale back the military forces it would make available to NATO during major crises, according to multiple sources familiar with internal Pentagon discussions. The move marks another significant shift in Washington’s defense strategy under President Donald Trump and signals a broader effort to push […]
What’s much more probable is kinetic retaliation against reported Ukrainian drone teams there. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned that their country’s armed forces are ready to retaliate against the Ukrainian drone teams that they claim have already deployed to Latvia ahead of “new terrorist strikes against Russia’s rear regions.” SVR explained […]
For more than two and a half years, silence has reigned along Finland’s roughly 1,340-kilometer eastern border — once one of Europe’s busiest overland trade corridors. Cafes that once welcomed Russian day-trippers now stand shuttered. Hotel occupancy reports in South Karelia show levels not seen since the Soviet Union collapsed. […]
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