WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #180, June 5, 2024.

 

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #180, June 5, 2024.
Compiled by Dick Bennett

JACQUES BAUD’S BOOKS ON THE UKRAINE WAR in chronological order of publication 2022-2024, published by Max Milo, Paris.  Click on each title for the author’s (or publisher’s) description.   A statement he made in 2022 regarding the Ukrainian conflict provides a superlative illustration of Baud’s challenge to the reporting of the war by Western leaders and mainstream media.  These books are on order at UAF’s Mullins Library, providing faculty and students a scholarly alternative to the official, anti-Russian, pro-war propaganda.  --Dick

Operation Z: The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine.  2022. 

Governing by Fake News: 30 Years of Fake News in the West.  2022.

Putin: Game Master?  (Jan. 2023).

Ukraine Between War and Peace.   2023.

The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat.  2024.

 

“The Military Situation In The Ukraine” by Jacques Baud.

Posted on April 17, 2022 AuthorEarthNewspaper.com Comment(1)

For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it.
Let’s try to examine the roots of the Ukrainian conflict. It starts with those who for the last eight years have been talking about “separatists” or “independentists” from Donbass. This is a misnomer. The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in May 2014, were not referendums of “independence”, as some unscrupulous journalists have claimed, but referendums of “self-determination” or “autonomy”. The qualifier “pro-Russian” suggests that Russia was a party to the conflict, which was not the case, and the term “Russian speakers” would have been more honest. Moreover, these referendums were conducted against the advice of Vladimir Putin.
In fact, these Republics were not seeking to separate from Ukraine, but to have a status of autonomy, guaranteeing them the use of the Russian language as an official language – because the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the American-sponsored overthrow of [the democratically-elected] President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 that made Russian an official language in Ukraine. A bit like if German putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland. This decision caused a storm in the Russian-speaking population. The result was fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which was carried out beginning in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and some horrific massacres of the Russian population (in Odessa and Mariupol, the most notable).
https://www.sott.net/article/466340-Retired-Swiss-Military-Intelligence-Officer-Is-it-Possible-to-Actually-Know-What-Has-Been-And-is-Going-on-in-Ukraine