Open Dialogue Research Journal
The problem appears to be that there isn’t yet enough trust between Russia and the US to fully overcome their security dilemma in spite of the impressive progress that’s been made thus far. Trump surprised friends and foes alike when he posted the following on Friday: “Based on the fact that Russia […]
U.S. President Trump is misrepresenting to allege that he is making progress in his attempt to get Ukraine’s leader Volodmyr Zelensky to accept ending the war in Ukraine on any other basis than defeating Russia outright (no compromise). When I reported, on March 1st, about “The Trump-v.-Zelensky Comedy Show” which had been […]
European politicians were grinding. There are no more figures like Angela Merkel, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder or Tony Blair. There is only Emmanuel Macron left in the political firmament of Europe, who has at least some influence on the processes taking place both inside and outside Europe. At least, that’s […]
Considering that Article 5 always left the option of armed force up to each individual member, which remains the case with each of the bilateral “security guarantees” that Ukraine reached with some of them over the past year, Meloni’s dramatic proposal doesn’t actually amount to anything new. Italian Prime Minister […]
Meanwhile Washington’s Negotiation with Russia on Ukraine are Stalled. If the US and Russia want a deal on Ukraine, Zelensky will need to cooperate. That is far from certain. The result could be that President Trump will not be able to negotiate a Ukraine settlement with Russia and the Ukraine […]
Part I American, and then European journalists, recalled another cautionary story, when in 2017-2019 the United States refused to purchase 10 Russian Be-200 amphibious firefighting jet aircraft (which had previously successfully extinguished forest fires in France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Israel, and Turkey), which could quickly cope with the fiery disaster […]
The interplay between them, Russia, and the US will determine the continent’s future security architecture. French President Macron’s declaration on Wednesday that he’s flirting with extending his country’s nuclear umbrella over other continental allies shows that he’s throwing down the gauntlet to Germany and Poland for leadership of post-conflict Europe. Outgoing German Chancellor […]
Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission has proposed that Europe increase its defense spending by 1.5% GDP over the average 2.0% GDP European countries are currently spending on defense. She fears that Europe has to defend itself and she understands that the United States probably will […]
This scenario is increasingly in America and Russia’s shared interests vis-à-vis their “New Détente”. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban predicted late last month that “Ukraine, or what remains of it, will once again be a buffer zone” between NATO and Russia once the conflict inevitably ends. His rationale is that it’ll be […]
The war in Ukraine is, but in reverse, the same situation that America’s President JFK had faced with regard to the Soviet Union in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. would have invaded Cuba if Khrushchev wouldn’t agree to a mutually acceptable settlement — which he did, and […]
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