Neutrality Studies

Originally published on 25 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking again to Pietro Shakarian and Lasha Kasradze. Pietro is an Armenian historian at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, and Lasha is a Georgian international relations analyst working in the US as a liaison officer for the Sokhumi State University. Today we want to discuss the many developments in the Caucasus region, from Armenia’s...

Originally published on 23 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking to Dr. Ivana Nikolic Hughes, the Director of Frontiers of Science and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Hughes is also the President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has been working with her students for many years on issues of nonproliferation and disarmament. Links:Nuclear Age Peace Foundatio...

Originally published on 22 Jul 2025. Today I'm talking again to Romans Sklenniks, a former Latvian journalist in Riga, who pointed out to me that there is another very scary ongoing case of a EU citizen, a Latvian citizen, Tatiana Andriets, who is being prosecuted for basically having a connection to Russia. This kind of occurrences is now happening more and more inside the European Union, and...

Originally published on 20 Sept 2025. While European leaders claim their support for Ukraine is a rational defense of democracy, their policies appear increasingly self-destructive. Is this a coherent strategy, or the result of a sophisticated propaganda campaign targeting their own citizens? And is the human mind becoming NATO’s next official battlefield? To discuss all this, today I’m talking ag...

Originally published on 2 Oct 2025. While the West paints Hamas as an irrational terrorist group that must be eradicated, its leaders consistently call for adherence to international law. Is this deliberate refusal to understand Hamas as a political actor the biggest obstacle to peace and the key enabler of the genocide in Gaza? To discuss this and more, today I’m talking to Eugene Doyle, a New Ze...

Originally published on 21 Sept 2025 Donald Trump ran on ending "stupid wars," but his administration is now seen as the most chaotic and war-prone in modern history. Is this incompetence pushing the American empire over the edge, and is a catastrophic conflict with Iran the inevitable result? To discuss this and more, today I’m talking again to Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired US army office...

Originally published on 1 Oct 2025. While Trump publicly berates Putin and threatens sanctions, back channels are buzzing with talk of a negotiated settlement in Ukraine. Is the whole spectacle just "lipstick on a pig" to disguise a historic defeat for the US and NATO? And as one fire seems to be dying down, could a desperate Israel be about to ignite a catastrophic war with Iran? To dis...

Originally published on 23 Sept 2025. Why does the West insist on viewing China through a simplistic "democracy vs. autocracy" lens? Is it possible that China's political system is not a failed version of our own, but something fundamentally different—a unique "political meritocracy" with deep historical and cultural roots? To discuss this and more, today I’m talking to Dr....

Originally published on 30 Sept 2025. The president of peace is preparing yet another war, this time in South America. A legacy foe of Trump's first term, Mr. Nicolos Maduro is in the cross hairs (again) and the ground is being readied for an all-out intervention in Venezuela. This is not even new, the playbook is an old one—a mix of 2019 and 1989 the Trump administration is currently reading...

Originally published on 29 Sept 2025. The international aid flotilla is creating an impossible nightmare for Israel: either let the 47 ships loaded with humanitarian aid reach Gaza and thereby break the illusion of Israel's limitless power over the strip, or attack the ships and risk killing activists that then will only increase the international outrage against Israel's impunity. Interna...

Originally published on 28 Sept 2025. While the West champions a "rules-based order," it consistently bypasses the UN Charter it helped create. Is this selective application of international law the real driver of the new Cold War? And could a return to the universal principles of 1945 be the only way to avoid global conflict? To discuss this and more, today I’m talking to Dr. Richard Sakwa, an Em...

Originally published on 24 Sept 2025 Why has Europe abandoned its own interests to become a pawn in a larger geopolitical game? Has its talk of "strategic autonomy" become a hollow slogan, covering a dangerous dependency? And how has a childish "good vs. evil" narrative replaced pragmatic statecraft, pushing the continent towards a crisis it is ill-equipped to handle? To discus...

Originally published on 25 Sept 2025. As Europe begs the US to stay, a new Trump administration appears to be pivoting away from its old allies and towards a surprising new understanding with China. Is the transatlantic alliance fracturing for good, and what does this mean for the global balance of power? To discuss this and more, today I’m talking again to Arnaud Bertrand, the French geopolitical...

Originally published on Sep 27, 2025. General Harald Kujat served as Germany's highest ranking officer in the early 2000s and became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee—the top position inside NATO on the military (not the political) side. What he has to say on Ukraine and the European war mentality should scare the entire continent. Support our work here: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fo...

Originally published on 13 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking to Nel Bonilla, a writer and researcher, running the Substack “Worldliness: The Threads Connecting Geopolitics”. She recently wrote a highly interesting piece on “Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction” about the trans-atlantic networks that are in her assessment one of the main reasons for the brain-dead geopolitics coming from the Eur...

Originally published on 14 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. David Gibbs, a Professor of History at the University of Arizona. The occasion is a sad one, as we are commemorating this month the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre in 1995.Professor Gibb’s Book:First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress... Our Sho...

Originally published on 15 Jul 2025. The following is an assessment of an article written by Dmitri Trenin, a Russian thinker who I had on this channel 3 years ago. Back then Trenin was assessing that the Ukraine war was the advent of a new Cold War. He revised his views in the meantime, arguing today that we are already inside World War 3, although not all theatres of the war have erupted in kine...

Originally published on 17 Jul 2025. It has happened again. This time it's the new western darling, "good Syria" that is coming under direct attack by Israel for the crime of still existing. At the same time, in Colombia there is some much needed multilateralism forming against the Gaza Genocide and in the West, the Anti-Russian propaganda bubble still pretends that Russia is losing...

Originally published on 18 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking to a former Hungarian Diplomat, His excellency, Ambassador Sandor Zoltan Kusai. Ambassador Kusai served his country in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Office in various capacities, most importantly he spent a total of 18 years in China, including in the top position as Ambassador between 2008-2014. He is now working as...

15 Jun 2025A second night of all out war between Israel and Iran has produced large-scale destruction not only in Tehran but also in Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities. The "iron dome" is not able to shoot down Iranian projectiles and the operation won't be as much of a cake walk the neocons might have thought it will be. At the same time, this is a new low even for US standard...

Originally published on 16 Jun 2025. Today I’m joined again by Professor Seyed Marandi, a Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. I am extremely grateful for him coming online as his country just went through a second night of all-out warfare with Israel after an absolutely sneaky surprise attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday.

Originally published on 17 Jun 2025. Today we once more need to discuss the fresh war that Israel and the US plunged Iran into after the sneaky surprise attack on Tehran and other Iranian cities last Friday. To discuss the situation from one of Iran’s northern neighbours I’m joined by Dr. Arthur Khachikian. Arthur holds a PhD in International Relations from Stanford University, and currently teach...

Originally published on 17 Jun 2025. In a Truth Social Post that was subsequently posted on the White House Twitter page Trump announced that the time had run out for Iran and that many people will die. He urged that everybody should leave Tehran, a city of 10 million people. In the meantime, Iran targets and kills Journalists and the media infrastructure of Iran while blocking reporting from the...

Originally published on 18 Jun 2025. Bevan Ramsden and Ann Wright are members of the Pacific Peace Network, which recently launched a peace and solidarty campaign calling on Pacific Rim countries to declare their neutrality for the sake of preventing a US-China war. JOIN THE CALL NOW! Sign the Petition. Sign the Neutrality Petition:  https://worldbeyondwar.org/declareneu... Pacific Neutrality Camp...

Originally published on 18 Jun 2025. On the fifth day of the new Middle East War all is not lost yet. The expected swift regime-change in Tehran is not happening and the Iranians are actually getting better at their air defence against the Israeli aggression. In the meantime, Trump seems erratic and pushed into a corner of his own making, lashing out against the defectors in this circle. Will he p...