Neutrality Studies

Originally published on Jan 28, 2026. Did peace deals fail by accident, or were they just used to buy time for war? Is the European Union using this crisis to take power away from its own member states? And why does admitting this is a proxy war actually offer the best hope for peace? I dig into these questions with Dr. György Varga, a Hungarian diplomat who saw the build-up to this fight with his...

Originally published on Jan 27, 2026. Everyone thinks neutrality means staying out of trouble. But what if it's actually about diving straight into the chaos to stay involved? We need to ask: is international law just a tool for the powerful, or can the little guys use it to strike back? To find out, I brought in Dr. Stefano Catellan and Professor Frederick Dhondt from the Vrije Universiteit B...

Originally published on Jan 26, 2026. Is the transatlantic partnership simply an abusive marriage disguised as diplomacy? We examine if the recent spectacle at Davos signals the collapse of Western cohesion and ask whether Europe possesses the resolve to finally decouple from a volatile American leadership or remain trapped in a fading colonial dynamic. Today I sit down again with Chandran Nair, f...

Originally published on Jan 24, 2026. How does a journalist get snatched off a quiet Zurich street by plainclothes officers? Why did a federal police chief allegedly break protocol to force his expulsion? And most chillingly, who were the mysterious agents attempting an illegal interrogation inside his prison cell? These aren't hypothetical scenarios from a spy thriller—they are the exact ques...

Originally published on Jan 23, 2026. With Western elites in Davos finally abandoning the charade of a "rules-based order" and Trump’s trade wars alienating even New Delhi, we face a stark reality: Is globalization dead, or just changing management? And if the West is bowing out, is India ready to lead the Global South? To map out this volatile landscape, I sat down with two Indian colle...

Originally published on Jan 22, 2026. Is the West steering its ship of state directly into an iceberg while the captain refuses to turn the wheel? Can a financialized economy fueled by debt ever hope to defeat an autarkic industrial powerhouse fueled by real energy? And why does our leadership seem paralyzed by a collective delusion rather than guided by strategy? To parse through this fog of war,...

Originally published on Jan 22, 2026. How does a "ragtag" opposition manage to smuggle 50,000 Starlink terminals into a heavily sanctioned fortress? The recent chaos in Tehran was not a genuine uprising but a US-Israeli orchestrated regime change operation. Its failure means a whole lot for US hegemony in the region. To deconstruct this fog of war, I sat down with investigative journalis...

Originally published on Jan 21, 2026. 35 years ago, Francis Fukuyama declared in „the end of history“ that the contest of ideologies was over. Liberal-capitalist democratic systems had won and would be the global standard for the next Millennia. But is this really working out? Here to help with this question is Dr. William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa B...

Originally published on Jan 20, 2026. Fight censorship. Stay connected via substack. Subscribe here: https://pascallottaz.substack.com What really stopped the US carrier group from launching strikes on Iran? Is it possible to fight back when the algorithmic gods delete your channel and your bank account simultaneously? I’m diving into these jagged edges of reality with Larry C. Johnson. As a forme...

Originally published on Jan 19, 2026. This one is wild. Trump is (ab)using a UN Security Council Resolution that was meant to structure some form of post-Genozide Gaza to form his very own extraterritorial international organisation with which he will most likely do investments around the globe. Peace-Building without peace. Trumpian to the core. Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.you...

Originally published on Jan 19, 2026. Many of you may know that the EU has begun persecuting its own citizens and legal residents with foreign policy measures in the form of putting them on the Russia-Sanctions list, like my compatriots, Jacques Baud and Nathalie Yamb. This extra-legal way of cracking down on people is what I’ll discuss today with one of Germany’s most outspoken legal experts. I’v...

Originally published on Jan 18, 2026. Switzerland on the path of Finland and Sweden: How the Swiss government, in its new security strategy, is paving the way into NATO and wants to put the whole society into a state of security paralysis. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Please subscribe on Substack to stay in touch even if YouTubes starts cens...

Originally published on Jan 17, 2026. For 80 years our leaders have been working on the weapons and the plans to exterminate the planet and kill us all. And they got very good at it. Professor Ivana Hughes and Professor Steven Starr explain in this masterful presentation what nuclear war really means. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Subscribe o...

Originally published on Jan 16, 2026. The chaos of the West is not random. It's the outcome of decades of planning and the emergence of a new class of rulers, the securitocrats, the people who subsume all of society under the idea of "security". Nel Bonilla is a researcher and substack author, analysing the structure of the social forces that the new elites in Europe and the USA have...

Originally published on Jan 15, 2026. Georgia has a new pro-neutrality party. I'm sitting down with one of its founding members, the former Georgian Ambassador, Konstatin Zhgenti, to talk about the new movement for a neutral and sovereign Georgia that wants to be friends to all, and foe to no one. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality...

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Originally published on Jan 10, 2026. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studies substack: ⁠https://pascallottaz.substack.com⁠   Goods Store: ⁠https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on Jan 9, 2026. On December 15, the EU listed the former Swiss army colonel, Jacques Baud, on its Russia Sanctions list, barring him from even buying food. He isn't suffering because he committed any crime. On the contrary, his actions are perfectly legal; they are just not the kind of "behavior" the EU likes to see, so it uses a foreign policy tool (sanctions) t...

Originally published on Jan 8, 2026. What do you call a form of state in which, because of its foreign policy, citizens can be persecuted domestically and harassed to the point of clear human rights violations? And all of this within a construct in which citizens are free to elect their national and supranational representatives? Exactly—we don’t have a word for it. But “anti-democracy” wouldn’t b...

Originally published on Jan 6, 2026. With the "mask fully off" regarding the intervention in Venezuela, I’m left wondering: has the international order officially dissolved into the law of the jungle? As the crosshairs shift toward Tehran, will Russia and China finally shatter the sanctions regime to prevent regime change? To understand if we are witnessing the Soviet-style collapse of t...

Originally published on Jan. 5, 2026. Can a superpower simply kidnap a foreign leader and charge them with possessing weapons on their own soil? Now that the U.S. has effectively "caught the car" in Venezuela, is there any road left for international law, or have we fully entered the era of the outlaw state? To make sense of this unprecedented aggression, I brought back Ambassador Chas F...

Originally published on Jan 5, 2026. Is the "Rules-Based International Order" just a diplomatic mask for modern-day piracy? Why is Western capitalism incapable of trading with sovereign nations without trying to own them? And if a country refuses to hand over its resources, is it destined to be punished for centuries like Haiti? I explore these uncomfortable realities with Michael Rossi....

Originally published on Jan 4, 2026. How do you dismantle a regime overnight? Did the CIA literally just purchase the loyalty of Venezuela's generals to clear the path for extraction? And if the "drug bust" narrative is a smokescreen, is this actually a desperate, billion-dollar bid to save the petrodollar? To decode the mechanics of yesterday’s attack, I turned to someone who knows...

Originally published on Jan 3, 2026. The USA just committed another sneak attack against another nation. This time, Venezuela. On the 5th anniversary of the killing of Qasem Soleimani, Iran's top general at the time, the USA is starting another illegal war, this time with a South American Nation. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality S...