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'''Col. Jacques Baud''' is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the [[Swiss]] strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the [[American]] and [[UK]] [[intelligence service]]s. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations. As a [[UN]] expert on [[rule of law]] and security institutions, he designed and led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the [[Sudan]]. He has worked for the [[African Union]] and was for 5 years responsible for the fight, at [[NATO]], against the proliferation of small arms. He was involved in discussions with the highest [[Russian]] military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the [[USSR]]. Within NATO, he followed the 2014 [[Maidan coup]] and later participated in programs to assist the [[Kyiv regime]].
[[File:Baud.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Col. Jaques Baud]]
'''Jacques Baud''' (b. 1955) is a [[Swiss]] former colonel in the Swiss Armed Forces, strategic intelligence officer, and analyst specializing in [[Eastern Europe]]an countries, [[terrorism]], and [[asymmetric warfare]].
He served in Swiss strategic intelligence, worked on [[United Nations]] peacekeeping operations (including as head of doctrine), and participated in [[NATO]]-related programs in [[Ukraine]] around the [[Maidan coup|2014 Maidan events]]. He has [[negotiate]]d with high-level [[Russian]] [[military]] and [[Intelligence agency|intelligence official]]s post-[[USSR]] collapse and trained in [[American]] and [[British]] [[intelligence service]]s.
Baud is a prolific [[author]] of books on intelligence, terrorism, and [[geopolitics]], published mainly in [[French]] by Max Milo Éditions. Notable titles include:
*''Gouverner par les fake news'' (Governing by Fake News)
*''Poutine, maître du jeu?'' (Putin: Game Master?)
*''Operation Z''
*''Ukraine entre guerre et paix'' (Ukraine Between War and Peace)
*''L'art de la guerre russe'' (The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat)<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Art-War-Ukraine-Defeat/dp/2315013062 The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat] Paperback – January 8, 2024, by Jacques Baud (Author). [[amazon.com]]</ref>
*''Covert Wars in Ukraine''.<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/jacques-baud-covert-wars-in-ukraine/ Jacques Baud: Covert Wars in Ukraine], By Jacques Baud / June 1, 2025.</ref>
These works often critique [[MSM|Western media]] [[narrative]]s, [[NATO]] [[policies]], and [[misinformation]] in international conflicts, drawing on official [[Western alliance|Western]], [[Ukrainian]], and [[Russian]] sources. In December 2025, the [[EU]] placed [[economic sanctions]] on him.<ref>[https://ronpaulinstitute.org/eu-sanctions-swiss-intelligence-expert-jacques-baud/ EU Sanctions Swiss Intelligence Expert Jacques Baud], by [[Moon of Alabama]], ''[[The Ron Paul Institute]]'', Dec 16, 2025. ronpaulinstitute.org</ref> Baud was placed under a travel ban, his bank accounts frozen, and his property confiscated.<ref>[https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/former-swiss-intelligence-officer-targeted-by-new-eu-sanctions-on-russia/90665703 Former Swiss intelligence officer targeted by new EU sanctions against Russia], Elena Servettaz, December 19, 2025. www.swissinfo.ch</ref> No one is allowed to have [[business]] relations with him,<ref>[https://youtu.be/VwNH3FLeZLA SANCTIONED: Col Jacques Baud Explains Being the EU's TARGET], [[Daniel Davis]] / Deep Dive, Dec 22, 2025. [[YouTube]].</ref> including to buy [[food]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/V0vDYf_YXmc Col. Jacques Baud: Is the West Finally Waking Up?] Dialogue Works, December 29, 2025.</ref> Due to the EU's [[extrajudicial]] sanctions regime, there is no [[court]] to make an appeal.<ref>[https://www.military-stuff.org/colonel-jacques-baud-nathalie-yamb-sanctioned-eu-goes-soviet-glenn-diesen Colonel Jacques Baud & Nathalie Yamb Sanctioned: EU Goes Soviet]] | [[Glenn Diesen]], December 16, 2025.www.military-stuff.org</ref>
In ''How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat'', Baud wrote:
{{Cquote|[[Zelensky]]'s decree of March 24, 2021 for the [[Azov_Battalion#Maidan_regime|reconquest]] of [[Crimea]] and the [[Donbass]] was the real trigger for the [[SMO]]. From that moment on, the Russians understood that if there was [[military]] action against them, they would have to intervene. But they also knew that the cause of the Ukrainian operation was [[NATO]] membership, as [[Oleksei Arestovitch]] had explained.<ref>[https://youtu.be/jC3aeTu0N3c Alexey Arestovich interview (18 March 2019)]</ref> That is why, in mid-December 2021, they were submitting proposals to the [[USA]] and NATO on extending the Alliance: their aim was then to remove Ukraine's motive for an offensive in the Donbass.
The reason for the Russian [[Special Military Operation]] (SMO) is indeed the protection of the [[population]]s of Donbass; but this protection was necessary because of [[Kiev]]'s desire to go through a confrontation to enter NATO. The extension of NATO is therefore only the indirect cause of the conflict in Ukraine. The latter could have spared itself this ordeal by implementing the [[Minsk Agreements]]—but what we wanted was a defeat for Russia.}}
==References==
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==External link==
*[https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/the-russian-art-of-war-why-the-west The Russian Art of War – Why the West Has No Strategy and Ukraine will lose], A conversation with Colonel Jacques Baud. [[Ian Proud]], Aug 28, 2026.
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