Open Dialogue Research Journal
On June 9, 1999, at the military airfield near Kumanovo, Lieutenant General of the Yugoslav Army Svetozar Marjanović and British General Michael Jackson signed the Military-Technical Agreement. The document ended the 78-day NATO air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. But what lay on the tables in Macedonia was […]
The UK military is in poor shape In the 1950s and 1960s, a massive wave of underground humor swept across the USSR and the Eastern Bloc featuring a fictional broadcaster called Armenian Radio (known in the West as Radio Yerevan). One of the jokes involved food lines and food scarcity, […]
He might be subtly channeling his compatriots’ speculative dislike of the special operation. Lukashenko reaffirmed in early June amidst escalating tensions with Ukraine that Belarus has no intent to go to war with it. In his words, “Should we go fight in Ukraine according to someone else’s will? Do we want to be […]
Part I As Finland accelerates the most ambitious military modernization program in its modern history, a new and far more sensitive debate is emerging in Helsinki. The issue is not about tanks, fighter jets, or reserve forces. It concerns nuclear weapons. For decades, Finland maintained a clear legal prohibition on […]
The likelihood that it secretly installed sensors in Ukraine to monitor its northern drone strikes is nil so it was either informed by Ukraine or at least the Baltic States across whose airspace the drones are credibly speculated by many in Russia to have passed. Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen […]
Few European countries have undergone a more profound security transformation in recent years than Finland. Since joining NATO in April 2023, the Nordic nation has become one of the alliance’s most valuable contributors, bringing with it a defence model that has been refined over decades rather than built in reaction […]
The Polish-led “cordon sanitaire” that’s taking shape along Russia’s western borders will connect with the Turkish-led one that’s poised to emerge along its southern borders, thus tightening NATO’s military-strategic encirclement of Russia per the “NATO 3.0” model. Bloomberg reported that “Turkey Floats $1.2 Billion Fuel Pipeline to Eastern NATO Allies” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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