Reflections on the New Year - and Jacques Baud

Understanding the world is becoming increasingly challenging, and just when you think you understand it, everything changes again the next day and you have to start all over again.

Most politicians, the players who drive this game, often think about their own fortunes and interests and forget the task entrusted to them by their voters, if they were elected at all, which is becoming less and less the case.

As exciting as life is for a geopolitical observer, it is devastating for millions of people who find themselves caught in the web of many conflicting interests and have to watch as their lives and those of their loved ones, their children, mothers, fathers, and neighbors are destroyed.

The latest example, which has a name and is well known, is Jacques Baud, who, as the most objective military analyst, was ultimately sanctioned by the EU for committing two crimes: firstly, his analyses were correct, and secondly, they did not correspond to the grotesque wishful thinking of the unelected ladies and gentlemen in Brussels.

We recently described the EU as a criminal organization in connection with the theft of Russian assets. Now, as a proud Swiss citizen—but for how much longer?—I have to admit that our government has not only disqualified itself by following Brussels' lead, but has also allowed a Swiss citizen to be thrown to the wolves, failed to fulfill its duty to protect, and thus demonstrated that even the most objective expert opinions no longer deserve protection from the Swiss government.

How do I justify this incredible accusation? – First, the Swiss ambassador in Brussels not only failed to contact Jacques Baud immediately when she learned (December 12) that Jacques Baud would be sanctioned on December 15, but also refused to talk to him when he proactively contacted his country's embassy. The Swiss Federal Council did not deem it necessary to put the Baud case on the agenda of the Federal Council meeting when it learned that this Swiss patriot, who had served the Swiss Confederation all his life, was to be sanctioned. To me, this borders on treason, and I believe that every single member of the Federal Council, the FDFA, and all employees involved in the Swiss representation in Brussels are liable to criminal and civil prosecution.

Federal Councilor Jans made his position clear in response to a question from a journalist from Weltwoche: with a smile, he expressed his obvious delight that the Baud case had not been discussed in the Federal Council. One can also look at the matter positively: Jans and his cohorts cannot sink any lower – we dream of the cultural and social reconstruction of Switzerland.

Back to our New Year's wishes. We have already used our New Year's card once before – in 2022, when the war in Ukraine was still new and an unstable peace still reigned in Gaza before the genocide broke out – nota bene supported and promoted by practically all the media in Switzerland. We put this image away for three years and are now bringing it out again to defiantly present it to humanity once more, in the belief that good will prevail in the end: anything is possible!

Part of our team got together with friends for a Christmas celebration on December 19—it was wonderful, but we were all pensive and our thoughts were with Jacques Baud.

On behalf of all our authors and staff, I wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season and a peaceful New Year!