Neutrality Studies

Originally published on Jan 19, 2026. This one is wild. Trump is (ab)using a UN Security Council Resolution that was meant to structure some form of post-Genozide Gaza to form his very own extraterritorial international organisation with which he will most likely do investments around the globe. Peace-Building without peace. Trumpian to the core. Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.you...

Originally published on Jan 19, 2026. Many of you may know that the EU has begun persecuting its own citizens and legal residents with foreign policy measures in the form of putting them on the Russia-Sanctions list, like my compatriots, Jacques Baud and Nathalie Yamb. This extra-legal way of cracking down on people is what I’ll discuss today with one of Germany’s most outspoken legal experts. I’v...

Originally published on Jan 18, 2026. Switzerland on the path of Finland and Sweden: How the Swiss government, in its new security strategy, is paving the way into NATO and wants to put the whole society into a state of security paralysis. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Please subscribe on Substack to stay in touch even if YouTubes starts cens...

Originally published on Jan 17, 2026. For 80 years our leaders have been working on the weapons and the plans to exterminate the planet and kill us all. And they got very good at it. Professor Ivana Hughes and Professor Steven Starr explain in this masterful presentation what nuclear war really means. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Subscribe o...

Originally published on Jan 16, 2026. The chaos of the West is not random. It's the outcome of decades of planning and the emergence of a new class of rulers, the securitocrats, the people who subsume all of society under the idea of "security". Nel Bonilla is a researcher and substack author, analysing the structure of the social forces that the new elites in Europe and the USA have...

Originally published on Jan 15, 2026. Georgia has a new pro-neutrality party. I'm sitting down with one of its founding members, the former Georgian Ambassador, Konstatin Zhgenti, to talk about the new movement for a neutral and sovereign Georgia that wants to be friends to all, and foe to no one. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality...

Originally published on Jan 13, 2026. Subscribe to my channel on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Links to Stas:Stanislav Krapivnik's YouTube Channel: ‪@MrSlavikman‬ Stanislav Krapivnik's Telegram: https://t.me/stastydaiobratno Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for...

Originally published on Jan 12, 2026. Links:Ezequiel's channel (Spanish): ‪@demoliendomitosdelapolitica‬ Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/a... )Goods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on Jan 10, 2026. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studies substack: ⁠https://pascallottaz.substack.com⁠   Goods Store: ⁠https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on Jan 9, 2026. On December 15, the EU listed the former Swiss army colonel, Jacques Baud, on its Russia Sanctions list, barring him from even buying food. He isn't suffering because he committed any crime. On the contrary, his actions are perfectly legal; they are just not the kind of "behavior" the EU likes to see, so it uses a foreign policy tool (sanctions) t...

Originally published on Jan 8, 2026. What do you call a form of state in which, because of its foreign policy, citizens can be persecuted domestically and harassed to the point of clear human rights violations? And all of this within a construct in which citizens are free to elect their national and supranational representatives? Exactly—we don’t have a word for it. But “anti-democracy” wouldn’t b...

Originally published on Jan 6, 2026. With the "mask fully off" regarding the intervention in Venezuela, I’m left wondering: has the international order officially dissolved into the law of the jungle? As the crosshairs shift toward Tehran, will Russia and China finally shatter the sanctions regime to prevent regime change? To understand if we are witnessing the Soviet-style collapse of t...

Originally published on Jan. 5, 2026. Can a superpower simply kidnap a foreign leader and charge them with possessing weapons on their own soil? Now that the U.S. has effectively "caught the car" in Venezuela, is there any road left for international law, or have we fully entered the era of the outlaw state? To make sense of this unprecedented aggression, I brought back Ambassador Chas F...

Originally published on Jan 5, 2026. Is the "Rules-Based International Order" just a diplomatic mask for modern-day piracy? Why is Western capitalism incapable of trading with sovereign nations without trying to own them? And if a country refuses to hand over its resources, is it destined to be punished for centuries like Haiti? I explore these uncomfortable realities with Michael Rossi....

Originally published on Jan 4, 2026. How do you dismantle a regime overnight? Did the CIA literally just purchase the loyalty of Venezuela's generals to clear the path for extraction? And if the "drug bust" narrative is a smokescreen, is this actually a desperate, billion-dollar bid to save the petrodollar? To decode the mechanics of yesterday’s attack, I turned to someone who knows...

Originally published on Jan 3, 2026. The USA just committed another sneak attack against another nation. This time, Venezuela. On the 5th anniversary of the killing of Qasem Soleimani, Iran's top general at the time, the USA is starting another illegal war, this time with a South American Nation. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality S...

Originally published on Jan 1, 2026. In its quest to defeat Russia, the EU has started sanctioning its own citizens, and those of third states like my country men, Nathalie Yamb and Jacques Baud. But what are these sanctions actually in the international legal system? Here to help with this question is Dr. Alexandra Hofer, an Assistant Professor Public International Law at Utrecht University’s Sch...

Originally published on Dec 31, 2025. Why do our political debates inevitably hit dead ends? Why do we dismiss opposing views as madness? I suspect the issue isn't just about facts, but about the subconscious blueprints we hold of human nature itself. To help me decode these hidden psychological frameworks, I’m joined by Dr. Bernhard Hommel, a full professor of psychology at the Shandong Norma...

Originally published on Dec 30, 2025. In 2014 and 2022, the EU initiated sanctions regimes against Russia. The lists of entities and individuals were originally supposed to target Russia’s econmic and political elites only. But since 2024, the list has been expanded to include “disinformation” and is being used to target journalists and academics even in EU and Schengen-state areas, like the Germa...

Originally published on Dec 29, 2025. Europe is gearing up for war. The militarization drive is undeniable and has by now also reached the universities. But, not everybody is ok with that. My guest today, in fact, quite his job as an Associate Professor at the University of Souther Denmark to protest the militarization of research projects. Dr. Dylan Cawthorne is a specialist in drone design and e...

Originally published on Dec 28, 2025. It is a trauma—a trauma that must remain repressed. While Willy Brandt’s kneeling in Warsaw has been etched into German collective memory, and remembrance of the six million victims of the Holocaust forms the core of Germany’s “culture of remembrance,” the country's guilt toward the 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union who were killed remains a taboo—es...

Originally published on Dec 27, 2025. The 59 individuals sanctioned by the EU are just the beginning. The eurocrats are only getting started with their campaign against internal dissent. Their unhinged nature is as much a function of the way they are losing the Ukraine proxy-war as also a direct result of 30 years of End-of-History megalomania in the West. Paired with the loss of the USA as a tran...

Originally published on Dec 25, 2025. Today I’m joined by Guy Mettan, a Swiss Journalist and Politician who is currently serving as a member of parliament in Geneva, one of Switzerland’s 26 cantons. Monsieur Mettan is also the author of the book Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria, which he published already back in 2017. Links:Guy's Facebook:   / guy.m...

Originally published on Dec 24, 2025. The European Union has started using the Anti-Russia sanctions as a repressive tool to smuther civil society dissent within the West. Last week, Colonel Jacque Baud, a former Swiss army member and NATO advisor was sanctioned, but so were several others before him, including activists and Journalists. One of them is Hüsseyin Dogru, a german national who was san...

Originally published on Dec 22, 2025. Fifty-nine individuals are by now sanctioned by the European Union in pursuit of punishing Russia for the War in Ukraine. Many of them are Russian citizens but more and more the EU is putting its own citizens and those of third states on this list, for reasons that have often little to do with Russia. One of them is my compatriot, Nathalie Yamb, who was in fac...