Neutrality Studies

Originally published on 25 Nov 2025. Asia transformed massively in just one century — from a region carved up by colonial empires to the powerhouse of today’s emerging multipolar world. BRICS, the SCO, ASEAN… so many of the key pillars of the new global order are now anchored right here in Asia. To discuss the continent’s stunning success and its future, I‘m joined today by the prolific Singaporea...

Originally published on 24 Nov 2025. As the United States seems ready to negotiate an end to the Proxy War in Ukraine along Russia’s “Istanbul+” formula of June 2024, and we now have a 28 Point Peace plan from the US side, the Europeans, yesterday, published their own 28-point peace plan with substantial changes to the US proposal. Here to discuss the matter is David Pyne, a former U.S. Army offic...

Originally published on 24 Nov 2025. Do you remember the Former European Parliament candidate who hackled Ursula van der Leyen and was arrested for it? His case is still not through in the courts, but now, Finland’s largest newspaper is smearing Armando as a Russian stooge and part of the Kremlin’s “hybrid warfare”.Here to discuss his case is with me is for the second time Armando Mema. Links:Arma...

Originally published on 23 Nov 2025. There is, once more, hope for peace in Ukraine, and it is—once more—freaking out the Europeans. The US and Russia are nearing a proposal for cessation of hostilities along a so called 28-point peace plan. Here to discuss this with me is Dr. Nicolai Petro, Professor for Political Science at the University of Rhode Island and the author of “The Tragedy of Ukraine...

Originally published on 22 Nov 2025. The United States just managed to pass a highly controversial resolution in the United Nations Security Council, which basically transforms Gaza into a UN Mandate and makes Donald Trump its governor. Resolution 2803 has alredy been heavily criticized by Human Rights experts like Francesca Albanese and Craig Mokhiber. The puzzeling thing in this is that Russia a...

Originally published on 21 Nov 2025. Donald Trump is getting ready for all out war with Venezuela, even the aircraft carrier group USS Gerald R Ford, has by now arrived in the Caribbean. At the same time, Trump also threatens intervention in Nigeria to allegedly “protect christians”. What happened to the US peace president? To discuss this I’m joined again by Stanislav Krapivnik, a former US Army...

Originally published on 20 Nov 2025. Chinese airlines just cancelled over 400,000 flights to Japan after belligerent remarks in parliament of Sanae Takaichi, the new Japanese prime minister. In all of this, the USA is suspiciously quiet. Is the real winner of this Beijing vs Tokyo fight gonna be, once again, Washington? Here to discuss with me this topic from another perspective is an old friend o...

Originally published on 19 Nov 2025. Japan’s brand new prime minister, just made China serious angry. During a parliamentary hearing, on November 7, Sanae Takaichi said relations to a potential Chinese blockade of Taiwan "If warships are used and other armed actions are involved, I believe this could constitute a Survival-threatening crisis".China reacted fiercly, including official prot...

Originally published on 18 Nov 2025. “The rule of law” is a fundamental concept to the modern West and especially to the United States. In fact, my guest today calls the U.S. “the most litigious nation on Earth” and asks why it is that while internally, the rule of law has an almost religious flavor to it, in the international realm, the U.S.—and Western nations more generally—behave as if rules a...

Originally published on 17 Nov 2025. For the longest time, I thought electromagnetic pulses—those bursts of invisible radiation that can wipe out power grids and shut down entire cities—were just sci-fi fantasy. The kind of thing you’d see in The Matrix or Hollywood disaster movies. But I was wrong. The United States actually has a Task Force on EMPs, and real scientists have been warning about th...

Originally published on 16 Nov 2025. The Post-Cold War myth of the "Liberal International Order" is dead. And it's dead for good. But there are others that are still persisting and they are dangerous. One of the most hurtful myths is of course that the West only wants to "spread democracy" and "protect" peoples at home and abroad. Nother could be further from the...

Originally published on 16 Nov 2025. Palestine remains the endless victim of US and Israeli maneuvers. The results are not just devastating for Palestine, which has suffered an outright genocide, but for the Arab world and beyond. Read by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Read the essay here: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/... More from Jeffrey D. Sachs: https://www.jeffsachs.org Neutrality Studies Youtube...

Originally published on 15 Nov 2025. Mainstream Media in the West is obviously broken. Yet, the more dysfunctional the industry gets, the more it seems to be denying any wrong doing, blaming anything, from technological progress to Social Media and Fake-News for their demise. Instead of soul-searching, we get a relentless blame-game. And this trend is getting worse. After all, Chomsky and Herman,...

Originally published on 14 Nov 2025. Europe can no longer be taken seriously—and that has serious consequences for Europe itself. Above all, Germany has completely forfeited its position on the world stage. After the still-unresolved Nord Stream 2 attack, Olaf Scholz’s obsequiousness, Friedrich Merz’s warmongering, the countless humiliations inflicted by the United States, and the immense arroganc...

Originally published on 13 Nov 2025. Cognitive Warfare is the new rage of the NATO lonatics who view behind every dissenting opinion in the social media space the long arm of the almighty Vladimir Putin. NATO produces reports, conference and even newsletters dedicated to cognitive warfare, admitting and arguing for its use not only against foreign populations, but against the domestic audience as...

Originally published on 11 Nov 2025. Once upon a time, many many aeons ago, a youthful Vladimir Putin, freshly minted President of Russia, held a speech in the German Parliament—and received a standing ovation for it. Back in those days German-Russian relations were at an all-time high. Well, we live in a completely different universe now, and if you ask most people in Europe, they will tell you i...

Originally published on 10 Nov 2025. The age of European colonialism never really ended, it just changed its costume. Today’s geopolitics look and feel so barbarian medieval because they are the ghosts of the Crusades and a forgotten medieval legend. To explore these startling ideas, I’m talking to Dr. Manuel João Ramos, an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Anthropology at the University Institu...

Originally published on 9 Nov 2025. Why did the 1990s dream of a 'Common European Home' fail so spectacularly? How did the promise of cooperative security give way to today's escalating confrontations? To find answers, today I’m talking again to Evarist Bartolo, a former Foreign Minister of Malta. Evarist recently wrote an article about this very “Mirage of the Common Home” and how the...

Originally published on 7 Nov 2025. I've been hearing whispers about a profound shift in Europe's industrial heartland. Why are Germany's famed 'hidden champions'—the backbone of its peaceful economy—suddenly pivoting to serve the US war machine? The answer is more shocking than I imagined. To understand this transatlantic shift, today I’m talking to Dr. Stephan Ebner. As an in...

Originally published on 5 Nov 2025. Is international law collapsing under the weight of powerful nations that blatantly ignore it? How can we use this crisis as a catalyst to build a system that actually holds everyone, not just the weak, accountable? To explore these critical questions, today I’m talking again to Dr. Alfred de Zayas, a Professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy, who used to work...

Originally published on 3 Nov 2025. What if a major academic program was designed not for open inquiry, but to create "professors of propaganda"? How does the EU's Jean Monnet Programme turn academics into "ambassadors" for its agenda, and how deeply does this corrode independent thought in our universities? To explore these questions, today I’m talking again to Thomas Fazi...

Originally published on 1 Nov 2025. Is the West truly in retreat, or are we witnessing the birth of a new, more insidious form of total war? Why do Western elites pursue strategies that seem self-destructive for their own nations, and what ideology drives this dangerous path forward? To help me make sense of this, today I’m talking to Nel Bonilla. Publishing under this pen name on Substack, Nel is...

Originally published on 31 Oct 2025. How does a society go from peaceful neighbors to bitter enemies? What if nationalism wasn't a sleeping giant but a tool deliberately awakened by capitalism? And what happens when global powers actively prevent a country from forming a unified identity? To explore these questions, today I’m talking to Professor Zlatko Hadžidedić, the Director at the Center f...

Originally published on 30 Oct 2025. What if the decisive factor in the Ukraine war isn't willpower or wonder weapons, but simply money? Are we overlooking a looming economic collapse in Kyiv that could fundamentally alter the conflict's trajectory when the funding finally dries up for good? To explore this critical angle, today I’m talking to Dr. Nicolai Petro, a Professor for Political S...

Originally published on 29 Oct 2025. Is Japan's recent defense build-up a shift toward hawkishness, or just an attempt to become a "normal" country? How would Japan, a pacifist nation by constitution, react if its main ally, the US, were to start a war? We dive deep into the unique constraints and surprising flexibility of Japan's military. Today I’m talking to Koji Imaki, a form...