Neutrality Studies

Originally published on 29 Mar 2025. NATO's worst enemy is NATO itself. The impunity with which this rogue war machine is breaking not only International Law but also its very own charter is breath-taking. It is hard to believe but as so often, the most outrageous and extensive crimes are hidden in plain sight. NATO parades its founding charter on its homepage, where article 6 clearly states t...

Originally published on 27 Mar 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Yu Bin, a great expert on Russia and China. Dr. Yu Bin earned his PhD from Stanford University, he is a senior fellow at the Russian Studies Center of the East China Normal University in Shanghai, and the author of six books and more than 150 chapters. Most impressively, Dr. Yu Bin has been writing in-depth quarterly updates on Ch...

Originally published on 25 Mar 2025. The best ways to support us:Donations on Patreon: patreon.com/NeutralityStudies. A subscription on Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was without doubt one of the most consequential events of the 20th century. While over-all the process took place peacefully, there were areas and moments of bloodshed before and after the fa...

Originally published on 23 Mar 2025. The UK is clinging on by its teeth to the mantra that it will “support Ukraine for as long as it takes.” Since Trump’s public announcement that Ukraine would never become a member of NATO, and the alliance‘s Secretary General‘s admission to the same effect, it should be clear that “as long as it takes” is now well over. But, as so often, the Europeans are the l...

Originally published on 19 Mar 2025. On March 18, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a second phone conversation in which they discussed the US ceasefire proposal. Although European leaders tried to make it look as if this was a "take it or leave it" moment for Russia, we now understand that the USA was very realistic about this initial offer. It was nothing but a process starter and now the two...

Originally published on 21 Mar 2025. The best ways to support us:Donations on Patreon: patreon.com/NeutralityStudies. A subscription on Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com. Today I’m talking to John Menadue, one of Australia’s most prolific publishers and public figures. Born in 1935, John worked in Australian media, served as head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1974 to 1976...

Originally published on 20 Mar 2025. What's the justification of Trump bombing one of the poorest countries in the world? What are the effects of using tariffs as a foreign policy tool? In the second part of this conversation, I'm once more talking to the outspoken Ambassador Chas Freeman, who among many other positions served as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and later became Assistant Sec...

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...