A bit like if putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland. For the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the overthrow of President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 that made Russian an official language. 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. Moreover, these referendums were conducted against the advice of Vladimir Putin. 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. The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in May 2014, were not referendums of “independence” (независимость), as some unscrupulous journalists have claimed, but referendums of “self-determination” or “autonomy” (самостоятельность). It starts with those who for the last eight years have been talking about “separatists” or “independentists” from Donbass.
Let’s try to examine the roots of the conflict. The problem is not so much to know who is right in this conflict, but to question the way our leaders make their decisions. I notice that the “experts” who take turns on television analyze the situation on the basis of dubious information, most often hypotheses erected as facts-and then we no longer manage to understand what is happening. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. Part One: The Road To Warįor years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. His latest book, Poutine, maître du jeu?, is published by Max Milo. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, in particular Le Détournement published by SIGEST and Gouverner par les fake news, L’affaire Navalny. Within NATO, he followed the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and later participated in programs to assist the Ukraine. He was involved in discussions with the highest Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR. He has worked for the African Union and was for 5 years responsible for the fight, at NATO, against the proliferation of small arms. 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 served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries.
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