Jacques Baud

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Support the Delingpod by joining James' Locals: https://jamesdelingpole.locals.com/ 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 Freedom isn’t free - James needs your support to continue creating The Delingpod. There are many ways you can show your support to James: Join the James Delingpole Community as a paid supporter at: jamesdelingpole.locals.com Support James monthly at: subscribestar.com/jamesdelingpole Support James’ Writing at: substack.com/jamesdelingpole www.delingpoleworld.com Buy James a Coffee at: buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpole Find full episodes of The Delingpod for free (and leave a 5-star rating) on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delingpod-the-james-delingpole-podcast/id1449753062 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bdfnyRzzeQsAZQ6OT9e7G?si=a21dc71c7a144f48 Podbean: delingpole.podbean.com Odysee: https://odysee.com/@JamesDelingpoleChannel:0 Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/JamesDelingpole BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Zxu5yMwNWTbs/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheJamesDelingpoleChannel Follow James on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/jamesdelingpole Instagram: instagram.com/delingpodclips GETTR: gettr.com/jamesdelingpole Telegram: https://t.me/+dAx_7JX7WQlwYzVk

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Stelling Pod with me, James Stelling Pod, and I know I always am excited
0:20.0	about this big special guest, but I really, really am. I'm delighted to introduce you
0:25.4	to Colonel Jacques Boul from a former intelligence officer in Switzerland,
0:33.4	an intelligence officer with an extraordinary rich and varied career in many of the world's
0:41.4	conflict zones. And I'm hoping that Colonel Boul is going to explain to me today what's
0:46.6	really happening in Ukraine. You're an expert on Russia and on Putin, among other things,
0:55.3	just tell us a bit more about yourself. I mean, I think most listeners will think of Switzerland
1:00.6	as being a kind of a neutral party in geopolitical affairs. Do you have a dog in this fight at all
1:09.3	or are you completely neutral? Well, we are completely neutral, but you have to remember that
1:15.2	neutrality was imposed to Switzerland in the early 19th century just after the defeat of Napoleon.
1:23.6	And Switzerland has since then the obligation to prevent any misuse of its territory.
1:29.4	That's why Switzerland has an army and a quite strong one, actually. So the military service
1:39.8	used to be compulsory. I think it's still. I'm not living in Switzerland now. I'm living in
1:44.7	Brussels, but the military service is compulsory. And I, of course, we add to the normal training,
1:55.3	normal military training, training abroad. I was trained in the UK, for instance,
2:03.4	in intelligence as an example. But Switzerland is an army and very proud of its army, in fact.
2:14.2	And every Swiss is a military. I am a general staff officer. That means that I've been trained
2:22.3	in all the specialty of a staff, logistics, operation, air operation, you name it. And usually
2:33.0	in Switzerland, that's the German system. When you choose a general, you take a general staff
2:39.3	officer. It's the same system as we have in, they have in Russia, for instance.
2:46.9	The general staff is the place where you have the people with more senior experience in staff
2:55.7	work, in military planning, operation planning. But after my time in intelligence, in strategic
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