Open Dialogue Research Journal
The Cold War started on 25 July 1945, when U.S. President Harry Truman made his final decision for the U.S. Government to reverse his immediate predecessor FDR’s plan for the post-WW2 world (FDR had planned for international relations in the post-WW2 world to be dominated by his invention, the U.N., […]
The path ahead will be very difficult due to the sensitive issues that Russia and the US must resolve. 12 February 2025 will go down in history as the day when the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine officially began to end. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth started everything off by declaring that: […]
After the conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, it became clear that the current Administration is ready to fulfill its obligations to the Americans who voted for Trump. The failure of Joe Biden’s course is also obvious. His foreign policy towards Ukraine, where American money had been laundered for […]
On February 12th, Stephen Bryen, who has retired from a career at the tops of one of America’s ten largest armaments-makers and near the top of the U.S. Defense Department (he’s been through the revolving door and now has retired from it), headlined “Europe Gasping for Air as Trump Makes […]
Three weeks after his installation in the White House, President Trump is trying to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. It is clear that his advisors are blinded by their prejudices and do not understand any of Moscow’s concerns. They give him a false image of Russia’s involvement in this conflict. Realizing […]
On February 6th, the neoconservative and deeply influential Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center headlined “Is Russia’s Economy Collapsing?” and summarized the opinions of ‘experts’, some of whom were saying yes, and some of whom were saying maybe, and the article closed by quoting two ‘experts’ who “disputed what they described as ‘claims […]
Instead of abandoning his efforts to freeze the Ukrainian Conflict by doubling down on military aid in the hopes that Zelensky’s forces will then recapture these deposits from Russia, Trump might instead try to cut a deal with Putin for Russia to sell some of these extracted resources to the […]
The end of February will mark the fourth year since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which led to numerous casualties and destruction between the two once fraternal peoples. In this regard, a rhetorical question arises: was it possible to avoid a military conflict and resolve interstate […]
The path to peace will predictably be paved by a ceasefire, which will itself likely require some territorial concessions on Ukraine’s part in order for Russia to agree to compromising on Putin’s associated demands, then new elections can be held for legitimizing peace talks. Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and […]
Trump is preparing for negotiations with Putin over Ukraine as well as with Xi over trade and likely also Taiwan, so he’d appear weak in their eyes if he let a middling leader like Petro publicly defy and even insult him without consequence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro thought that he’d […]
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