Neutrality Studies

The War against Iran is getting worse and worse for the United States. Its navy can't even get close to the "theater" of war and the inadequacy of its naval assets is now out in the open. My guest today, UK navy officer (Commodore) Steve Jermy explains the various parts of the US maritime quagmire.Support us on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Shop and Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com

The political West has killed countless millions over the decades, yet pretends to be a force for good. What will happen once it's forced to face its own inhumanity? Today, I discuss the many narrative interpretations of our common global reality with Prof. Manuel Ramos. Manuel's Article on Bucha: https://manueljoaoramos.substack.com/p/the-bucha-affair-marchapril-2022Manuel on Substack: https://manueljoaoramos.substack.comPascal on Subsack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Shop & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com

China's silence in the first weeks on Iran was not a mistake. Beijing is highly strategic in its approach to the latest US war of aggression, and it's quite surprising what's behind the reasoning. Today I'm talking again to Mr. Sheng Zhang, a Chinese West-Asia expert who explains the driving rationale behind China's approach to the Iran War. Support us on substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Goods & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com

The US War of Aggression against Iran is escalating into a scenario worse then Vietnam... within 3 weeks! The level of damage done to US facilities in the region is unprecedented and Iran will never allow those assets back. What's next for an empire drunk on imagenary military power? I'm speaking to Stas Krapivnik for an update on the war.Support us on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com

For decades Israel pretended to be an innocent country established after the horrors of the holocaust for the protection of the Jews. Turns out, it was all a lie. The zionist project is much older and has little to do with the wishes of the Jews when it was established. Inherently a christian doctrine, Zionism was always a plan to resettle the jews of Europe even against their will and to dominate West Asia in the process. Today, prof. Jeffrey Sachs and prof. Yakov Rabkin are discussing the past and the future of a racist settler-colonial political project that has become so violent in the past decade that the entire world now sees it for what it is. An irredeemable political sin.Pascal's Links:Support us on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Our shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.comYakov's Links: Yakov's travelogue of Iran: https://yakovrabkin.ca/israel-and-zionism/jews-in-iran-a-travelogue/Books in English on Israel, Zionism and Judaism by Yakov M. RabkinZionism Decoded in 101 Quotes[https://www.amazon.com/Zionism-Decoded-101-Quotes-TRACTION/dp/1771864125/

The Iran War is increasing the speed of western decline that began 4 years ago with the intensification of the Russia-Ukraine Proxy War. How did that happen? How could the US-Europe alliance miscalculate this grossly?I sat down with Emeritus Professor Richard Sakwa to test the hardest claims around this war: folly or strategy, proxy war or direct clash, exclusion or security failure, peace process or staged theater. The talk moves from NATO expansion and Ukrainian neutrality to Europe’s crisis, Russia’s place in the post-Cold War order, and the shrinking space for real diplomacy.Links:Richard's Book as ebook or paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Follies-Empire/dp/B0FTGNL2J9Richard's Book from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Follies-Empire/dp/B0FTGNL2J9Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Introduction00:00:15 Follies of empire00:08:37 Proxy war and Europe’s decline00:13:03 Russia excluded from the West00:17:50 Security logic and war models00:24:25 Neutrality buried in Ukraine00:35:38 Nuclear risk and false diplomacy00:45:07 Paths to peace and the UN

A recent study in the academic Lancet journal shows that between 1971 and 2021, more than half a million people died　PER YEAR due to US and EU sanctions. This meassmurder is something we need to talk about. Reza Majdzadeh has been involved in sanctions research from a public health perspective for decades. He is a Professor at the University of Essex and a public health expert with experience in Iran and at the WHO.Links:Article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltextThe article that outlines 500k dead per year: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltextNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.coTimestamps:00:00:00 Introduction and guest00:01:20 Lancet findings on sanctions00:07:30 Death toll and personal loss00:10:45 Banking and supply chain breakdown00:20:13 Resilience and local production00:28:12 The myth of smart sanctions00:30:57 Monitoring health during sanctions00:38:39 Early warning before deaths00:42:12 Final appeal and closing

I open with the hardest questions in this talk: did the Iran war come from one president or from a whole system, and did Washington follow Israel or share the same goal from the start? I sit down with Dr. Michael Brenner, emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, for a sharp and unsettling look at empire, elite consensus, and the road to Iran.Links:Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.comOpt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academicMerch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Introduction00:00:38 American power and the road to Iran00:08:53 Channel note and Substack00:09:10 Trump and the long elite consensus00:20:23 Israel and US strategic overlap00:31:54 Western racism and imperial culture00:48:06 Collapse of limits in Western politics00:53:14 Trump and the Iran war endgame

From regime change to permanent conflict, the war on Iran is not an exception and not an accident. The dark forces of violence in Washington once again won out, but the victory of the warmongers might not be what it seems. While militarism, neoconservative strategy, evangelical fundamentalism, and, most of all, an unwavering alignment with Israel have pushed the United States from one confrontation to the next, the war-making capacity of the US is waning, and the signal this sends to us "allies" across the globe is not what Washington would like it to be. My guest today is again, Dr. David Gibbs from the University of Arizona.Support us on Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.comOur shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Dr. David Gibbs: https://dgibbs.arizona.edu

Is Munich signalling a transatlantic break, or a tighter lockstep? Well.... Slogans of “European autonomy” are clearly just a cover for deeper NATO integration. Today I’m joined by researcher and writer Nell Bonilla, who runs the Substack Worldlines and is developing a “bunker state” framework to describe a shift from public welfare planning to permanent securitization. We use Munich 2026 as a window into burden shifting, elite unity behind staged disagreement, and the pressure campaign toolbox used against states like Iran.Links:Nell Bonilla Substack (Worldlines): https://themindness.substack.comNachDenkSeiten: https://www.nachdenkseiten.deNeutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com(Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic)Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Introduction and topic setup00:01:33 Bunker state framework00:04:51 Munich as synchronization ritual00:09:04 Open burden shifting and integration00:17:01 Russia China and elite cohesion00:24:23 Feudalism to capitalism roots00:37:10 No reverse gear after the Cold War00:48:04 Iran and non-kinetic warfare tools00:57:01 Building alternatives and closing remarks