Col. Jacques Baud: The Origin and Solution to the Ukraine War
with Prof. Glenn Diesen
Jacques Baud, retired Colonel in the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service, has published several books on the origin of the Ukraine War, and he presents the conditions to bring the war to an end. Understanding what happened to the Minsk agreement is important to understand what is required to find a solution. Colonel Baud also laments the dangerous geopolitical immaturity in Europe that no longer addresses reality.
A superb discussion. Col. Baud has an excellent grasp of the origins of the conflict which are totally ignored in the Western media. But it is the attitude of the European political class which is so unsettling - let's even say unhinged. Macron's bizarre ideas are very dangerous and I wish somebody would show him a Pierre Schoendörffer film like 317me Section. (A film about real war in Indochina). The personality of Kallas is also very scary: the Euro-foreign minister cannot really speak English fluently and somehow misses the point that Europe's legitimate interests lie in good relations with Russia. Why should we have good relations she would ask? ANSWER: There are over 6000 good reasons (aka nukes) is the answer. In fact most of these people have NO IDEA what what is or entails. It is pitiful.
Col. Baud talks about the EU Maastricht Treaty (1992) as being a "bridge too far" and this is a point that cannot be overemphasized. Hitherto the then European Community was what one might describe as a free-trade zone with benefits. Maastricht was the attempt to impose a kind of political unity, bloc discipline if you will, by means of economic and administrative centralization, which was obviously putting the cart before the horse, as people even at the time pointed out. It has been downhill ever since, with the process accelerated by the Lisbon Treaty (2009). This was undertaken not with but most emphatically WITHOUT consent of the governed. For the record, the Netherlands and France held referendums about the proposed EU constitution in 2005. As a citizen of the Netherlands, I, along with a majority of Dutch, as well as a majority of the French, voted AGAINST the proposed Constitution. This was the *wrong* vote. Referendum in other member-states subsequently abandoned, and the rebranded Constitution was passed as the Lisbon Treaty without public mandate in 2009. This is how "democracy" works in the EU, and the Romanians are only the latest to find this out first-hand. They project of European unification may have started out well, with noble intentions, but it has devolved in monstrous entity, not simply undemocratic, but actively ANTI-democratic. To paraphrase the ancient Romans, "Brussels delenda est"