The Swiss military expert Jacques Baud has just published a new book, entitled “Operation Z.” In a lengthy interview by The Postil, posted yesterday, Baud explains how his book isn’t so much about the reality of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine as it is about the West’s information war against their own populations. “The aim of this book is to show how the misinformation propagated by our media has contributed to push Ukraine in the wrong direction,” Baud explained. “I wrote it under the motto ‘from the way we understand crises derives the way we solve them.’ By hiding many aspects of this conflict, the Western media has presented us with a caricatural and artificial image of the situation, which has resulted in the polarization of minds. This has led to a widespread mindset that makes any attempt to negotiate virtually impossible.”
“The one-sided and biased representation provided by mainstream media is not intended to help us solve the problem, but to promote hatred of Russia,” Baud continues. “Thus, the exclusion of disabled athletes, cats, even Russian trees from competitions, the dismissal of conductors, the de-platforming of Russian artists, such as Dostoyevsky, or even the renaming of paintings aims at excluding the Russian population from society! In France, bank accounts of individuals with Russian-sounding names were even blocked. Social networks Facebook and Twitter have systematically blocked the disclosure of Ukrainian crimes under the pretext of “hate speech” but allow the call for violence against Russians.”
“None of these actions had any effect on the conflict, except to stimulate hatred and violence against the Russians in our countries,” Baud argues. “This manipulation is so bad that we would rather see Ukrainians die than to seek a diplomatic solution. As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham recently said, it is a matter of letting the Ukrainians fight to the last man.”
Baud says that in the course of writing his book, he found that not a single French-language news outlet abided by journalistic standards of quality and ethics as set out in the Munich Charter of 1971 as far as Russia and China go. “In fact, they shamelessly support an immoral policy towards Ukraine, described by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, as ‘We provide the weapons, you provide the corpses!’”
Moving on to the military realities, the interviewer asked Baud if assertions in the West that the war has proven that the Russian army is feeble and that its equipment is useless were true. “No,” Baud flatly said. “After more than six months of war, it can be said that the Russian army is effective and efficient, and that the quality of its command & control far exceeds what we see in the West. But our perception is influenced by a reporting that is focused on the Ukrainian side, and by distortions of reality.”
There’s more to come from this interview. (https://www.thepostil.com/our-latest-interview-with-jacques-baud/)
