Open Dialogue Research Journal
On September 26, China and Russia formally proposed a six-month delay in the activation of the UN’s “snapback” mechanism against Iran. At first glance, this might appear to be a procedural maneuver another bargaining chip in the endless cycle of nuclear disputes and sanctions diplomacy. Yet the timing, substance, and […]
The US is poised to “sell” Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. US special envoy to Ukraine, retired general Keith Kellogg, says only the final decision has to be made. The US has already agreed, Kellogg said, for deep attacks on Russian territory, and only the release of the Tomahawks is […]
Donald Trump rejected all claims of the Ukrainian president to sovereignty and independent decision-making. Of course, attempts to press the American were observed on the part of the Europeans. Zelensky has nothing to offer Trump. The EU countries, although they delegated their functions to Brussels, retained some ability to influence […]
Intentionally inflammatory or due to obvious erroneous judgments, the document continues the line of the Russophobic strategy “Understanding Russian strategic culture and the low-yield nuclear threat” – this is the title of the yet another report of the RAND Corporation, prepared by the authors of the European branch. Judging by […]
Former U.S. President Joe Biden, in a 17 January 2025 interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that was effectively this President’s Farewell Address to the nation but has been suppressed instead of promoted by that network (and by all of the nation’s press), told him (in this 81 seconds long clip […]
A new study using advanced sensing technology has taken a fresh look at the damaged Iranian nuclear site, Fordow. It is not the first time that satellite technology has revealed important strategic security information. Landsat The Landsat system was launched in July, 1972, initially called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. […]
Introduction On August 26, 2025, Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador, Ahmad Sadeghi, citing unsubstantiated claims of Iran’s involvement in antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023. This unprecedented move, the first ambassadorial expulsion since World War II, coincided with the European troika’s nuclear deadline for Iran, raising questions about its […]
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history. Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted […]
His dramatic deployment of two nuclear submarines near Russia serves three political purposes. Trump announced on Friday that the US will deploy two nuclear submarines near Russia in response to former President and incumbent Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev’s social media posts warning about the risk of […]
De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the person or entity that exerts retribution […]
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