Neutrality Studies

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 Dirk Pholmann: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688383/Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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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 constitutional measure in Taiwan to take down law makers before their mandate is over. It’s a bit like an impeachment for a president—sometimes if someone did something criminal or outrageous, you might wanna get rid of them before their time is officially over. However, what we have never seen is a coordinated attack on so many parliamentarians at the same time and all of them against KMT members, that is the party holding the majority in parliament but not the executive branch which is held by President Lai Ching-te, a DPP politician. Now, the recall failed epically, all 24 MPs were reaffirmed by their constituencies. What this means is what we wanna discuss today.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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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 United States.We dive into how Georgia’s government weathered intense foreign pressure, using its new transparency law to push back against outside influence. From there, we zoom out to the shifting fault lines in the region—Moldova’s turn towards the West and the strategic dismemberment of Armenia. We dissect Trump's ambitious Zangezur corridor plan, questioning if it’s a shrewd economic project or a militarized "poison pill" in disguise. Finally, we ask if sidelining Western meddling could, ironically, be the key to the South Caucasus's future stability.

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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 Jeffrey's reading of these events.Professor Jeffrey Sachs, is a Professor at Columbia University, advisor to countless governments, and a prolific analyst. Lasha Kasradze is an international relations analyst specializing in the South Caucasus.

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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's Homepage: https://evaristbartolo.mt

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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: 2015-2022, Diary of an international Observer”.That’s what we want to discuss today.Links:"What I saw in Ukraine" Book: https://www.amazon.com/what-saw-ukrai...

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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_Theorieshttps://ingaza.wordpress.com/https://x.com/EvaKBartlett

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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/@jeffrichJeff's YouTube channel: ‪@theburningarchive‬

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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): ‪@demoliendomitosdelapolitica‬Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on 5 Oct 2025.

While the West is trapped in a self-imposed fantasy world regarding Russia, clinging to outdated views of Moscow while simultaneously abandoning international norms in acts of "piracy," the US domestic structure is undergoing a revolutionary shift toward American-style autocracy. Is this internal decay making US foreign policy even more reckless and divorced from reality?Today I’m talking again to Dr. Michael Brenner. Michael is a Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at John Hopkins.We explore why there is far more continuity than change in American foreign policy, tracing the strategy back to the 1991 Wolfowitz Blueprint for global hegemony. We analyze the nature of Donald Trump—described as a fascist and clinical psychopath incapable of coherent planning—and how his administration is merely stripping away the pretense of American constitutional democracy. Furthermore, we break down the collective delusion shared by Western leaders, who ignore Russia’s stated strategic needs while pursuing dangerous confrontations that risk catastrophic outcomes.Links:Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudiesGoods Store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...