One of the latest persons hit with official EU restrictions is the former Swiss intelligence official and author Jacques Baud:

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 British intelligence services. 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 Ukrainian crisis and later participated in programs to assist the Ukraine. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, in particular Le Détournement published by SIGEST, Gouverner par les fake news, L'affaire Navalny, and many other books.

I have quoted Baud in several of my pieces on Ukraine and have linked to his writings in the magazine Postil.

Several Youtube channels like Glenn Diesen, Daniel Davis and Nima Alkhorshid's Dialog Works have regular discussions with him. The latest one, by Dialog Works, was published (vid) just seven days ago.

I have bought and read one of Baud's books, The Russian art of war – How the West led Ukraine to defeat and can highly recommend it.

Baud is not writing fantasies. There are footnotes on nearly every page of his books with links to the sources. His analyses are objective and well founded.

That of course does not sit well with a EU officialdom that is living in a fantasy world where Russia is so weak that its economy will crash the next month and so strong that it will conquer Europe by next summer. Such Russophrenia is used for a power grab by technocrats and the dismantling of the last traces of democracy in Europe.

This is one of the outcomes:

Alfred de Zayas @Alfreddezayas – 12:24 utc · Dec 14, 2025

We are witnessing a civilizational collapse with the EU sanctioning Jacques Baud, a retired Swiss colonel and intelligence officer, for publishing books and articles expressing views on the Ukraine war contrary to those of the NATO leadership.