Open Dialogue Research Journal
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 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 […]
Thanks to Starmer, Macron and Merz, NATO is on the rocks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited London on Monday, December 8 where he met with Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany. Two things happened: Zelensky made it clear (and expanded on the […]
Awareness of the threats that NATO poses along these three fronts and the division of labor between the top five states therein – Finland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, and Turkiye – enables Russia to devise the most effective countermeasures and propose the best means for managing future tensions. It was earlier […]
Putin recently proposed providing Europe, the majority of whose countries are part of NATO, with formal guarantees that it won’t attack. In connection with this, he also assessed that those who fearmonger about Russia are serving the interests of the military-industrial complex and/or trying to bolster their domestic image, which exposed […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FpsE9joEk “Morale breaks, panic spreads, big cauldron forming w/ Stanislav Krapivnik” 7 December 2025 Throughout the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-coverage of the war in Ukraine, the body-counts and other cited data have been coming almost exclusively from U.S.-and-allied sources and analyzed by U.S.-and-allied commentators, in the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Telegraph, CNN, BBC, […]
Europe is out of the Equation Neither the Russians or the Americans have revealed much about last Tuesday’s (Nov 2) meeting in Moscow. The meeting went on for five hours, and in parallel Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov was meeting with Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC […]
For a brief historical moment, many Europeans believed that large interstate wars on their continent belonged definitively to the past. The post-Cold War decades were framed as a transition from power politics to legal norms, from nuclear brinkmanship to economic interdependence. Today that confidence has evaporated. Governments quietly refurbish bunkers, […]
For many years, in Soviet and then in Russian society, Finland was considered exclusively as a small friendly, neutral country – our closest northern neighbor, which, on the rights of broad autonomy, was part of the Russian Empire for 108 years and had broad powers granted by Emperor Alexander I […]
Will NATO and the US Intervene? Ukraine is now entering the Danger Zone. Ukraine’s army is running out of men and material, and worse than that, important parts of the army are trapped by Russian forces. This includes Pokrovsk, of course, Zaphorize and a number of other areas. Meanwhile, Russia […]
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