Open Dialogue Research Journal
What’s most important is that Putin and Trump trust one another, their representatives have excellent working relations with each other, and these two leaders are aware of the challenges posed by Ukraine and Europe. Russia and the US confirmed their mutual intent on Tuesday to revive the grain deal, though Russia’s statement conditioned […]
Ukrainian officials met with the US side twice. The Russian delegation met with the US side once. The White House released two statements on the result of the negotiations in Riyadh on Monday, March 24, 2025. Both White House statements highlight the Black Sea as the main topic. There was […]
This suggests that Russia expects a political settlement or at least an armistice within the next six months so it’s now prioritizing the further legitimization of its control over the new regions by finally completing their legal integration into the country at the local administrative level by 10 September. Putin […]
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and its Western allies have sought to consolidate a unipolar world order based on liberal democratic values and free-market capitalism. This vision was famously articulated by Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man (1992), where he […]
On March 18th, Trump and Putin agreed on a deal in which Ukraine and Russia will have a 30-day ceasefire on attacks against each other’s energy infrastructure. The following superb discussion about it by three objective experts on geostrategy — Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson, retired from the CIA, and […]
Will Ukraine and Europe Support the deal? A preliminary readout of the Trump-Putin telephone call says that the two leaders agreed on a limited ceasefire arrangement covering energy facilities in Ukraine and Russia. It is questionable if Ukraine will accept the deal. “The leaders agreed that the movement to peace […]
Trump might recognize Crimea as Russian not because he might think that it’s the right thing to do, but as a clever tactic for encouraging Russia to pragmatically compromise with Kiev, though it would still be a political, economic, and military game-changer for the reasons explained in this analysis. Semafor cited […]
After Donald Trump pointed out Europe’s place in the world, European politicians tried to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of their own population. The trips of Europeans, first Duda, and now Macron and Starmer, show that the globalist lobby is still striving to take Trump under control and force him […]
For a month, the accumulation of critical events around the United States, Ukraine and the European Union has been difficult to interpret because each power has been advancing in disguise. European leaders assume a stupid air by assuring that they continue to support the Ukrainian integral nationalists while Washington and […]
There are five compelling arguments for either scenario. Ukraine just agreed to a month-long ceasefire after talks with the US in Jeddah, but it’s conditional on Russia agreeing to the same, which remains uncertain. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to pay his second trip to Moscow in just as many months later this […]
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