Neutrality Studies

Originally published on 8 Sept 2025. The situation in Armenia is alarming, where a self-proclaimed democratic leader is enacting Stalinist-style repressions, arresting archbishops, and silencing opposition. How can a "Velvet Revolution" so quickly turn into an autocratic nightmare, and why is the West, known for championing human rights, not only silent but actively supportive of this cr...

Originally published on 7 Sept 2025. Are we truly past the unipolar era, and what new pillars are emerging to shape the multipolar world? Today I’m talking again to Dr. Michael Rossi, a lecturer at Rutgers University and visiting Prof at Foredom University and Pace University as well as Webster Uni Tashkent. Michael teaches political science and international relations, and is the host of the YouT...

Originally published on 15 Oct 2025. Is it a coincidence that every influential Swedish leader on the world stage—Bernadotte, Hammarskjöld, Palme—was assassinated? What if these aren't just tragic accidents, but evidence of a hidden system? We investigate the disturbing pattern of political murders targeting European figures who dared to work for peace. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Ola Tunan...

Originally published on 6 Sept 2025. What happened to the ancient arts of diplomacy and statecraft in Europe and North America? Why is it that there are no skilled foreign policy experts left in the West? Kaja Kalas, Marco Rubio, Annalena Baerbock, really? Is this the best we can get? And worse, think of the battalions of Rambo-Ambassadors the US sends all over the globe, who only insult foreign l...

Originally published on 5 Sept 2025. Dr. George Szamuely reveals how the West's destruction of Yugoslavia in the 1990s became the blueprint for modern interventionism. From the illegal Badinter Commission to NATO's "humanitarian" bombing, Western powers violated international law to break up a sovereign state. This wasn't about human rights—it was about eliminating Russian in...

Originally published on 13 Oct 2025. While western media pretends the latest Chinese announcement about export licensing restrictions is all about the trade war with the US, the real story is all about weapons. After the US emptied its stockpiles in Ukraine and West Asia, Beijing now strikes the USA where it seriously hurts: the ability to replenish their armaments. The US is now in a serious pick...

Originally published on 4 Sept 2025. Tuomas Malinen, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki and CEO of GNS Economics, discusses Finland's dramatic shift from neutrality to NATO membership. One of President Alexander Stubb's first acts was signing a defense treaty with Ukraine, marking Finland's first military treaty with a nation at war with Russia since 1944. T...

Originally published on 25 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Dr. Richard Overy, a Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter and a historian of the Second World War. Professor Overy wrote many books and just recently published the great work “Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan” in which he discusses not only the atomic bomb, but the larger context of arial bombings, the mi...

Originally published on 12 Oct 2025. What if the first 80% of users flocking to a new digital ID system are hackers and fraudsters? Is this technology the dawn of a dystopian future, or are the risks just overhyped? In this episode, I’m talking to Yana Afanasieva, an expert in financial regulation, FinTech and data privacy. Yana led regional compliance teams at Amazon and PayPal in Europe, where s...

Originally published on 23 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Cyrus Janssen, an international business consultant, entrepreneur and fellow youtube analyst with a very large channel, nearing 1 million subscribers. With over 10 years experience doing business in China, he posts shot-form analysis as well as longer interviews often focusing on China and BRICS developments. This is what we want to discuss...

Originally published on 21 Aug 2025. Dr. Erich Vad is a former German brigadier general and adviser on security and defense policy in the Bundestag, as well as military adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Our Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 11 Oct 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Warwick Powell, an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. In this part 2 of the conversation with Warwick Powell, we explore the complexities of US foreign policy. We question whether the US is in retreat or simply adapting its strategy to maintain primacy by pushing risk onto its allies. We discuss...

Originally published on 10 Oct 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Warwick Powell, an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. In this part 1 of the discussion, we dive into China's strategic economic transformation and its response to US tariffs. We explore how China successfully deleveraged its overheated real estate market, redirecting capital into high-tech ma...

Originally published on 18 Aug 2025. Dr. Jan Oberg is a Danish peace researcher in Sweden. We talk about the escalating rhetoric toward Russia in Europe and what peace-oriented folks can do about it. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Our Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 9 Oct 2025. What if the official story of the Bosnian War is a carefully constructed myth? We'll explore declassified documents that ask: Did US intelligence warn against the very policies that led to disaster? And was the climactic bombing campaign not a necessity for peace, but a way to rebrand a failed policy? Today I’m talking to Dr. Harry Blain, an Assistant Profes...

Originally published on 17 Aug 2025. Second part of discussion with Glenn Diesen. First part on his channel:    • Pascal Lottaz: US-Russia Relations Decoupl...   Transcript of the Summit meeting: https://open.substack.com/pub/pascall... Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Our Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 8 Oct 2025. Today I'm talking to Dirk Pohlmann, a German author and documentary filmmaker. Mr. Pohlmann is working on a book about political assassinations in Europe and America, including those of JFK, Olof Palme, Enrico Mattei, Dag Hammarskjöld, and the German banker Alfred Herrhausen. That’s what we’ll be talking about today—so, dear Dirk, welcome. Filmografie of Dir...

Originally published on 12 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Joanna Lei, a former KMT lawmaker in Taiwan as well as a media executive in the US.Today is August 7th and only 10 days ago, on the last weekend of July we had a rather important extraordinary election in Taiwan. 24 KMT parliamentiarns were under the threat of being unseated in a mass-recall. Now, recalls are a proper constitution...

Originally published on 7 Oct 2025. Protesters are trying to storm the Presidential Palace in Tbilisi, but why now? With the ruling party winning another decisive victory in local elections, what is truly fueling this unrest? To make sense of it all, today I’m talking again to my colleague and friend Lasha Kasradze, a geopolitical analyst and Liaison officer for Sokhumi State University in the Uni...

Originally published on 10 Aug 2025. We’ve seen a lot of turmoil in the South Caucasus recently, from Azerbeijan’s support for the US/Israeli attack on Iran to a crack down on political opposition in Armenia and previously an attempt in Georgia to oust the elected government by something very reminiscent of the Euro-Maidan in Ukraine. Together with my co-host, Lasha Kasradze, today want to hear Je...

Originally published on 9 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Evarist Bartolo, a labor politician of the beautiful island state of Malta. Mr. Bartolo was a member of Malta’s parliament for 30 years, and he served as Minister of European and Foreign Affairs, between 2020 and 2022.Links:Article mentioned in the video (Mirage of a Common Home): https://timesofmalta.com/article/mira... Minister Bartolo&#39...

Originally published on 5 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Benoît Paré, a French army reserve officer and former defense ministry analyst. Most importantly, Mr. Paré worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as part of the seize-fire monitoring mission in Eastern Ukraine. He also wrote a book about this experiences in the Donbas with the title “What I saw in Ukraine...

Originally published on 4 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Eva Bartlett, a US/Canadian Journalist in Russia who has been reporting for many years from wars and non-western conflict zones, including Gaza, North Korea, and the Donbas. Links:Eva's Substack: https://evakarenebartlett.substack.com/ https://t.me/Reality_Theories https://ingaza.wordpress.com/ https://x.com/EvaKBartlett Neutrality Studi...

Originally published on 3 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking again to the Australian historian and writer, Jeff Rich. Jeff publishes on his substack and on YouTube. Today we want to discuss the general development of world politics and the forces that are shaping the 8 billion people planet. Links:Jeff's Substact: https://substack.com/@jeffrich Jeff's YouTube channel: ‪@theburningarchive‬ Neutral...

Originally published on 2 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti, a political scientist working for the University of Buenos Aires and an international lecturer based in Berlin. Ezequiel is also a fellow youtuber and the host of the Spanish-language channel Demoliendo Mitos de la Politica - "Demolishing Political Myths.”Links:Ezequiel's channel (Spanish): ‪@demo...