Open Dialogue Research Journal
Ursula von der Leyen’s geopolitical Commission seems to be losing even the smallest amounts of geopolitical clout it had before the turmoil of the 2020s. The current perception dominating Brussels is that Europe is executing a noble mission of defending “European principles” against authoritarian powers, namely the US, Russia and […]
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 […]
There is discord in Ukraine. The president says one thing, and his advisers and staff of his administration say the exact opposite. Officials, politicians, and the military have completely different opinions about what might happen next for their country, but they don’t want to give up. The war has already […]
Prospects for a successful outcome are minimal. Maybe, or maybe not, will Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special negotiator, travel to Moscow, allegedly to brief Russian president Vladimir Putin. Right now Witkoff is in Riyadh with the rest of the US delegation in talks with the Ukrainians. The Russians have not confirmed […]
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 […]
Last week, I recounted the events concerning the Ukrainian conflict, emphasizing that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as brilliant as he is, was incapable of adapting to changes in the world. This week, I take the same elements, and many others that followed, to show that the divorce of Europeans […]
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 […]
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 […]
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