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