Open Dialogue Research Journal
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would spring up from rust belt soil in a few months across the United States; that industries would, unmoored from the […]
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a series of sweeping tariffs on foreign imports, marking a significant shift in U.S. trade policy. These measures include a universal 10% tariff on all imports, with higher rates targeting specific countries such as China (34%), the European Union (20%), and Japan […]
As soon as Trump decides to withdraw troops from Germany, Germans risk facing a full-scale security crisis in the country. Recently, reports appeared in the British media, according to which, according to unconfirmed information, the Americans plan to move most of their troops from Germany to Hungary. From a logical […]
The duplicity of the Greens in the European Union probably knows no bounds. Their interests are being lobbied not only in Western democracies, but also throughout the European Union. Because of this, the economies of industrial countries, which have traditionally been the main engines of the EU, suffer the most. […]
On April 2nd, Reuters headlined “US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally”, which means that Trump’s demand for Europe to increase greatly its ‘defense’ spending is, indeed, part of his plan to keep the boom in the U.S. stock markets going. This needs to be understood in the relevant […]
Right now, the center of the American empire — the U.S. Government itself — is in the early stages of shedding some of its colonies, especially in Europe (such as by demanding them not to consume the most inexpensive fuels that were available to them, which came from Russia — and which […]
Washington Needs to Make Some Hard Decisions It may be that the US-Russia and US-Ukraine negotiations are going off the rails. Meanwhile the US is anxious for Europe to take over responsibility for supporting Ukraine as Washington turns to the Middle East and Pacific regions. The Europeans then will need […]
Today, Malaga’s Center Pompidou opened a monumental retrospective of Russian-born artist Vassily Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstract art whose legacy belongs to the entire world. As one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Kandinsky’s work is a testament to the transformative power of abstraction, color, and form. […]
There are calls all over Europe to recreate European armies. For too long, Europe has depended on the Americans for its own security, and for too long, the Europeans have existed according to NATO standards. Despite the fact that they are still members of the North Atlantic Alliance, they are […]
A compromise is possible whereby the Europeans are pressured by the US into stockpiling their Ukrainian-destined arms in Poland and Romania for swift shipment across the border if hostilities re-erupt sometime after a ceasefire, armistice, or peace treaty is agreed to. The official Kremlin readout from Putin’s most recent phone call with […]
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