Neutrality Studies

Originally published on 18 Mar 2025. Why is Trump being so agreeable to Russia? And why is Putin so eager to end the war through peace dealings, contrary to people's perception of him wanting to conquer Ukraine? To answer these questions and to get insight into the recent Russia-USA peace talks, today I’m talking once more to the outspoken Ambassador Chas Freeman, who among many other position...

Originally published on 17 Mar 2025. The best ways to support us:Donations on Patreon: patreon.com/NeutralityStudies. A subscription on Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com. Today I’ve got the great honour of talking to Michael von der Schulenburg, a German member of the European Parliament. In his youth, Mr. von der Schulenburg escaped communist rule in East-Germany, then studied in Berlin, London...

Originally published on 16 Mar 2025. For a decade the US and western media pretended to be greatly concerned about poor Syrian civilians being slaughtered by their government. Last week, 1000s of Syrians were killed point blank in mass executions by the new Al-Qaeda terrorist regime that took over the state in a Turkey-backed coup de force. And the West remains silent and complicit in this very pr...

Originally published on Mar 15, 2025. [Part 2 of 2] There is a serious risk that even if the political establishment of Ukraine (Parliament and Government) came to the conclusion that only a surrender could save the country from complete annihilation, the ultra-right wing with its willingness to kill their own people, might be able to seize power if the army sides with them. That is a real fear th...

Originally published on Mar 14, 2025. Russia's position on the battlefield is getting better and better, but the US still insists on Moscow forfeiting its advantage to negotiate an end to the entire conflict. Why does Trump think this approach could work and what are the Russian calculations to not flatly reject this idea? To discuss these points, I’m talking again to Dr. Nicolai Petro, a Prof...

Originally published on Mar 13, 2025. Today I’m talking to Dr. Biljana Vankovska, who is a full professor of international relations and peace studies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. Biljana has been serving on various academic journals such as “Security Dialogues” and “Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies”, and she‘s one of her regions most...

Originally published on Mar 12, 2025. The US negotiated with Ukraine a rather remarkable document which cynics might throw out as a blatant attempt of the US to freeze the Ukraine War at a moment when Russia is clearly winning. However, the document also establishes clear US dominance over its Ukrainian Proxy and gives the US a mandate to actually negotiate with Russia without the Ukrainians t the...

Originally published on Mar 11, 2025. Ursula von der Leyen just announced a lovely-sounding policy under which the block would "ReArm" and make 100s of billions of Euro's available for member states to militarise to their teeth. With no plan on why this is necessary or how it should be achieved, numerical spending goals on militarisation is another absolut fully that will end in a complete meltdow...

Originally published on Mar 10, 2025. Today I’m talking to David Gorodyansky. David is a Silicone Valley Tech-Entrepreneur who developed and mass-deployed one of the most important technologies of the internet age, I’m speaking of course about Virtual Private Networks. David founded a company called AnchorFree which developed HotSpot Shield, one of the most successful VPN services out there. This...

Originally published on Mar 9, 2025. Today I’m talking to Pietro Shakarian and Lasha Kasradze. Both of my colleagues hail from the Southern Caucasus region, Pietro from Armenia and Lasha from Georgia. Both of them are living abroad, Pietro is a historian at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburgh, Russia, and Lasha is an international relations analyst working in the US as a liaison offi...

Originally published on Mar 9, 2025. In a video two weeks ago, Brian Berletic from The New Atlas (‪@TheNewAtlas‬) made a very important argument about what some people hope is the end of US strive for global dominance and the Trump administration's new 'love' for settling into the multipolar world order: • The US-EU "Division of Labor" to Cont... In this discussion, I'll engage with Brian's argume...

Originally published on Mar 8, 2025. This was a public talk at Seijo University, in Tokyo, on what "Neutrality Studies" exactly is and why I am connecting this academic project with a social media platform through this YouTube Channel. For anyone who has been wondering about my work, here are some behind the scenes insights.

Originally published on Mar 7, 2025. Today I would like to share another brilliant talk of Ambassador Chas Freeman with you. This one was recorded as part of a Zoom event on February 20th, 2025 by Mr. Eddie O'Brien of the Thinking Center, an Irish civil society organization. The video is a Q&A type of roundtable with Ambassador Freeman and all of his insights are, as always, very much wort...

Originally published on Mar 6, 2025. Why are the European's reacting like self-destructive little children when it comes to war with Russia and in talks about the "threat" emanating from China? Can we explain or even just describe conflicts—especially the conflicts in and about Ukraine—through the lens of International Law? No says my guest today, since IL is not only an inherently i...

Originally published on Mar 5, 2025. How come that, as Jimmy Dore says, "there are homeless people under every bridge in America, and they don't even fix the bridges"? How is it possible that in the nominally richest economy in the world there is so much poverty, drugs, and despair and why did that problem grow over the unipolar moment when the USA was the unquestioned sole superpowe...

Originally published on Mar 4, 2025. Today I‘m talking to Ambassador, Dr. Geoff Raby. Dr. Raby is an Australian economist who served as his country‘s Ambassador to China from 2007-2011. He currently runs a Beijing-based business advisory firm and he is a friend of Professor Hugh White, the brilliant Australian geopolitical analyst who was on this channel a few weeks ago. Dr. Raby published last No...

Originally published on Mar 3, 2025. While the Europeans are in full denial about losing their top-dog protector, the USA is busy cutting its losses in the Ukraine-proxy war. To discuss the recent blow-up between Zelensky and Trump as well as the greater strategic implications, I'm joined today again by Dr. Glenn Diesen from the University of Southeast Norway. Glenn's Channels:Substack: ht...

Originally published on Mar 3, 2025. Remarks to an international conference on ending the disaster in Ukraine organized by Radio Roma News TV / Amici Network. Full conference video here:    • ENDING THE DISASTER IN UKRAINE: AN IN...   Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)Remarks delivered on February 22, 2025How wars end matters. The Napoleonic wars ended in the reconciliation of Europe’s g...

Originally published on Mar 1, 2025. After already publicly negotiating with Macron of France and Starmer of Britain, Trump now faced off with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in an unprecedented manner. This is the new reality of how the US engages with its client states and it creates much needed reality in the relationship with all of Europe.

Originally published on Feb 28, 2025. The US and its "coalition of the willing" did not only illegally attack and invade Iraq, it also never left. The 22-year long military occupation is going hand in hand with the political and economic ruin of a 40 million people nation—another crime of epic proportion by the defenders of the "Rules Based International Order".Today I’m talkin...

Originally published on Feb 26, 2025. From Paris, Berlin, Brussels and London, all of Europe is in panic and shock over the US dropping its allies for a better relationship with the former "Enemy Nr.1". What happened and how is European media reporting this? Is there any kind of "foreign policy" that we could talk about? Short answer: no. Ian Proud was a British Diplomat from 1...

Originally published on Feb 25, 2025. Today I’m speaking to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, the Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council. Last week, Dr. Kortunov published a short but highly interesting article about what he called “The Grand Bargain”. In the piece, Dr. Kortunov analyses the warming relations between Washington and Moscow and asks if the two Great Powers together will ma...

Originally published on Feb 24, 2025. Germany voted for a new parliament. But what can come out of such a divided Bundestag? Here's my analysis of what could happen in the upcoming coalition talks.

Originally published on Feb 23, 2025. The other day I was on Ezequiel Bistoletti’s show Demoliendo Mitos de la Politica ( ‪@demoliendomitosdelapolitica‬ ). He runs that channel in Spanish and published our conversation in that language, and here it is for you in English—or in your language if you watch this on one of our other channels. It’s mainly an interview with me about what’s going on with t...

Originally published on Feb 22, 2025. So, the USA and Russia are negotiating an end the War in Ukraine and the Europeans as well as the US neocon-establishment are still freaking out over it. I’ve done a couple of episodes on this already, but let me just show you how desperate these people at the moment are by way of some New York Times headlines. After that I’ll show you what a real analysis of...