Open Dialogue Research Journal
The Ukrainian president is playing a high-stakes game. This means he is acting against the will of President Trump and continues to attack strategic targets not only on Russian territory but also those that play a key role in supplying Europe with oil and gas. This time, a missile strike […]
The Americans are very pragmatic. They have always been this way and will always be. As if sensing that Russia is increasingly aligning with China, the Americans greeted Vladimir Putin in Alaska with open arms. The conversation, which lasted several hours, turned out to be highly substantive. The main achievement […]
They claim that it’s “profiteering” off of the Ukrainian Conflict and “funding Putin’s war machine”. The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite China and the EU being the largest respective importers of […]
Peace Talks Appear to be Dead There is growing evidence that not only have the peace talks for Ukraine stalled, but NATO has won over Washington to not only continue the war, but to expand it. While Putin has flown off to meet with his two buddies, Xi Jinping and […]
Trump appears to be pushing his luck with Putin, who’s open to compromises, not concessions, let alone significant security ones. If this approach doesn’t change, then a serious escalation is expected. Western security guarantees for Ukraine are one of the main issues delaying a political resolution to the conflict. Russia launched […]
Drones have changed warfare on the battlefield and beyond. At present there are more drones than practical countermeasures, although that could possibly change in future. The preponderance of battlefield drones removes the shooter from the battlefield, preserving manpower, enhances target accuracy well beyond almost any other tool, and subjects traditional […]
Have the Germans forgotten how the last deployment of military contingents in the USSR ended in 1941? Today, no one should be particularly concerned with the purpose behind Merz’s intentions. What really matters are the historical consequences of this decision. There is nothing in the near future that could justify […]
The world press about Putin – Trump meeting The general reaction of the world’s press – is shock at how warm the meeting between Putin and Trump in Anchorage turned out to be. “The meeting was a major diplomatic gamble by Mr. Trump unlike anything his predecessors might have tried […]
U.S. President Donald Trump, in his meeting on August 15th with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, totally misinterpreted Putin to be welcoming an outcome that Putin has vociferously and repeatedly opposed ever since at least 2007, which is that under no circumstances will Russia ever accept troops from any NATO country being […]
The Russians reject European-NATO participation to Guarantee Ukraine’s Security The Trump administration made a massive political blunder on August 20th in its pursuit of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. The blunder centered on a “virtual” meeting led by NATO. Prior to that meeting, Trump had promised the Russians […]
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