Neutrality Studies

Originally published on Dec 31, 2025.

Why do our political debates inevitably hit dead ends? Why do we dismiss opposing views as madness? I suspect the issue isn't just about facts, but about the subconscious blueprints we hold of human nature itself.To help me decode these hidden psychological frameworks, I’m joined by Dr. Bernhard Hommel, a full professor of psychology at the Shandong Normal University in China. Until 2022, Professor Hommel held the chair of “General Psychology” at Leiden University and he is a member and senator of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He is the author of many academic and popular books, the most recent one in German language being „The power of the imagined human: why we talk passed each other and sound politics fails."Links:Hommel's Website: https://www.bernhard-hommel.eu/Hommel's books (German):https://westendverlag.de/author/detai...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 30, 2025.

In 2014 and 2022, the EU initiated sanctions regimes against Russia. The lists of entities and individuals were originally supposed to target Russia’s econmic and political elites only. But since 2024, the list has been expanded to include “disinformation” and is being used to target journalists and academics even in EU and Schengen-state areas, like the German nationals Alina Lipp and Hüseyin Dogru, or my countrymen, Jacques Baud, and Nathalie YambIt’s a dystopian reality but certainly not the first time something like this happens. To discuss the historical precedents I’m joined today agin by Professor David Gibbs, a professor of history at Arizona State University.Links:For an interview with Professor Gibbs, see Sadiq S. Baht, "Trump-Zelenskyy spat — 'Under Trump 2.0, foreign policy will never be business as usual,'" TRT World, February 28, 2025,https://www.trtworld.com/article/7d92... Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 29, 2025.

Europe is gearing up for war. The militarization drive is undeniable and has by now also reached the universities. But, not everybody is ok with that. My guest today, in fact, quite his job as an Associate Professor at the University of Souther Denmark to protest the militarization of research projects. Dr. Dylan Cawthorne is a specialist in drone design and ethics and he’s here to explain to us what’s going on in European academia.Links:Dylan's website: https://www.dylancawthorne.com/Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 28, 2025.

It is a trauma—a trauma that must remain repressed. While Willy Brandt’s kneeling in Warsaw has been etched into German collective memory, and remembrance of the six million victims of the Holocaust forms the core of Germany’s “culture of remembrance,” the country's guilt toward the 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union who were killed remains a taboo—especially now, as Europe prepares for the next major war against the East. That, and my guest’s experiences over more than 30 years in Russia, are what we will discuss today.Today I am joined by author and Moscow correspondent Ulrich Heyden. Mr. Heyden has worked in Russia since 1992 for various newspapers and currently publishes for NachDenkSeiten and other German-language online outlets.

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Originally published on Dec 27, 2025.

The 59 individuals sanctioned by the EU are just the beginning. The eurocrats are only getting started with their campaign against internal dissent. Their unhinged nature is as much a function of the way they are losing the Ukraine proxy-war as also a direct result of 30 years of End-of-History megalomania in the West. Paired with the loss of the USA as a transatlantic parter, the Eurocrats are cornered. But instead of reversing course and correcting their anti-democratic actions, they are set to crack down even harder on dissent from within.

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Originally published on Dec 25, 2025.

Today I’m joined by Guy Mettan, a Swiss Journalist and Politician who is currently serving as a member of parliament in Geneva, one of Switzerland’s 26 cantons. Monsieur Mettan is also the author of the book Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria, which he published already back in 2017. Links:Guy's Facebook:   / guy.mettan  Guy's Linkedin:   / guymettan  Pluralia: https://pluralia.com/RS SEGEL- UND PLANENTECHNIK: http://rs1.infoNeutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 24, 2025.

The European Union has started using the Anti-Russia sanctions as a repressive tool to smuther civil society dissent within the West. Last week, Colonel Jacque Baud, a former Swiss army member and NATO advisor was sanctioned, but so were several others before him, including activists and Journalists. One of them is Hüsseyin Dogru, a german national who was sanctioned already in May. He joines us today to discuss his case.Links:X (Twitter): https://x.com/hussedogruNeutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 22, 2025.

Fifty-nine individuals are by now sanctioned by the European Union in pursuit of punishing Russia for the War in Ukraine. Many of them are Russian citizens but more and more the EU is putting its own citizens and those of third states on this list, for reasons that have often little to do with Russia. One of them is my compatriot, Nathalie Yamb, who was in fact the first Swiss Citizen to be included on the list, back already in June 2025.Links:Nathalie's YouTube channel: ‪@nathyamb‬Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 21, 2025.

NATO and EU „jurists“ are trying to tell us that Kosovo is a case „sui generis“ — aka unlike any case before or after it. Well, how convenient, since it is the first case that NATO used to justify bombing foreign territory (Serbia). Today we are going to put a very close focus on Kosovo, the history of the conflict, and what it is all about.Joining me is Dr. Sandra Davidovich, a scholar of Yugoslav history and modern Kosovo.Links:Sandra's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Dec 20, 2025.

With its sanctions list, the EU HAS quietly revived medieval "outlawry" in the heart of modern Europe. Why can a secretive administrative body bypass every judicial safeguard to financially erase a citizen? Horrible realities are surfacing within the institutions supposedly built to protect our most fundamental liberties.I am joined again by Michael von der Schulenberg, a German parliamentarian in the EU Parliament, who provides a rare, first-hand account of the unchecked power dynamics currently shifting the continent’s legal foundations.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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