Nicolai Petro: A public appeal for Jacques Baud

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From Nicolai Petro, 12/19/25

You may have heard that the EU Commission has imposed personal sanctions against Col. Jacques Baud, a former Swiss intelligence analyst. Baud has also served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations, where he led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the Sudan. Within NATO he followed the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and was later asked to participate in programs to assist Ukraine.He is accused of “disruptive activities against the EU and the partner states” as a “mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda.” How one gets put on this list, and how one might be removed is not clear. Former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Dr. Jur. Hans-Georg Maaßen, has provided an illuminating legal analysis (in German) of the troubling implications of this action: https://youtu.be/9PCVRBzJR90?si=qNm86arGiuki-G-4. 

Baud is currently under a travel ban, his bank accounts are frozen, and his property confiscated. No one is allowed to have business relations with him, including the publishers of his books.

Journalist Patrik Baab and several others intend to file a public appeal on his behalf. The draft text of this appeal is attached below. If you wish to add your name to the list, please contact him directly at: patrikbaab@posteo.de

Thank you very much for your time. 

Sincerely,

Nicolai Petro, Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island (USA)

6 thoughts on “Nicolai Petro: A public appeal for Jacques Baud”

  2. A glimmer of hope. Thank you so much!

    For those who wish to understand the immense scope of these sanctions, here Daniel Davis talking to Baud. It is indeed “medieval”.

    25 min. which make clear why this appeal is highly significant.

  4. Just to highlight the level of madness, of accountability and of the slightest doubt over their own actions, read here the German government´s press conference excerpt re: Baud from Dec. 17th with courtesy of German altern. site NACHDENKSEITEN and their reporter Florian Warweg –

    please take notice of the end of the first answer by Mr. Giese:

    “(…)
    Excerpt from the verbatim transcript of the government press conference of December 17, 2025

    Question from Warweg:

    Mr. Giese, on December 15, Germany voted in the Council of the European Union to add the Swiss military analyst and multiple bestselling non-fiction author Jacques Baud to the EU sanctions list. The sole justification given, without further evidence, is that he is a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programs and disseminates theories about the origins of the war in Ukraine that the EU does not share. I would like to know: Is it really the current position of the German government to impose comprehensive sanctions on renowned military analysts like Baud and massively infringe upon their fundamental rights simply because one does not agree with the content of his analyses of the war in Ukraine?

    A: Giese:

    Unfortunately, you were not present last Friday, when we discussed in considerable detail the consequences of spreading disinformation. It concerned a case of attribution. I don’t want to reopen this discussion, but it has also become clear that people who do such things can be sanctioned if the legal grounds exist and there is a corresponding decision by the Council of the European Union. This happened this Monday, it will continue to happen, it has happened in the past, and everyone working in this field must expect that it could happen to them as well.

    Q: Additional question from Warweg:

    Yes, the only specific accusation in the sanctions order is that Jacques Baud is spreading the conspiracy theory that Ukraine provoked its own invasion in order to join NATO. However, this is not an original statement by Baud; rather, he is referring to a statement by Zelenskyy’s former chief advisor for strategic communications in the area of ​​national security, Oleksiy Arestovych, who in 2009 [slip of the tongue, it should be 2019] [The editor] stated in an interview that there is a 99.9 percent probability that the price of Ukraine joining NATO would be a major war with Russia. Against this backdrop, I would be interested to know whether the German representative in the Council of the European Union actually checked the presented justifications for the sanctions for their veracity beforehand, or whether he simply rubber-stamped them without any fact-checking or source verification. Because the central accusation is simply not true.

    A: Giese

    I could take the easy way out and say: This is a decision that was made in Brussels. But I could go a step further and say: Yes, we are also convinced of it. That’s why it was a unanimous decision.

    All those who disagree with their sanctions have every possible legal means to challenge them. They can appeal to the Council, and they can also appeal to the European Court of Justice.

    Addendum Warweg:
    With frozen accounts, great.
    (…)”

    To repeat him:

    “it has also become clear that people who do such things can be sanctioned if the legal grounds exist and there is a corresponding decision by the Council of the European Union. This happened this Monday, it will continue to happen, it has happened in the past, and everyone working in this field must expect that it could happen to them as well.”

    Any questions?!

  5. Its Xmas & the EU is busy on X posting ad nauseum a plethora of sanctimonious bilge about its achievements & poor ole Thierry Breton.

    To every X posting by an EU Office, EU Officer Holder, EU Functionary, EU MEP, EU Civilian Booster, Von der Leyen, Kallas, Mogherini, Borrel, whoever/whatever, I’m replying with :-
    RELEASE JACQUES BAUD & NATHALIE YAMB !
    Tout Court, That’s It. I urge others to consider doing this or something like it. Stick it on yr clipboard & paste away ! Be a Nuisance ! Be a Situationist Stuntman ! Stuff Their Feeds ! SHOUT !

    Me ? I’m well on the way to my first Century (may even have exceeded it, I’m not counting) & I Will Not Stop ! I’ve been blocked by one delicate fleur of a Booster & if I end up blocked by every EU Account & every EU civilian Booster I’ll consider it a Badge of Honour !

    Top of the Season to all Men & Women of Good Will !
    regards
    alfred venison

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