By Thomas Karat
On an evening at the end of December 2025, a woman in Switzerland opened a grocery-delivery app on her phone. She filled a basket and typed in a delivery address in Brussels—a flat she had visited many times, whose owner could no longer leave Belgium and could no longer pay for anything from within it. She entered her Swiss card at checkout. The payment declined. She tried again. It declined again.
The man waiting for the groceries is Jacques Baud, seventy years old, a retired colonel of the Swiss Army and a former officer of the Federal Intelligence Service who had worked in Brussels for NATO. On December 15, 2025, fifteen days before the blocked delivery, the Council of the European Union had placed him on a list. He was now, in the language of the Official Journal, a person “responsible for, implementing or supporting actions or policies attributable to the Government of the Russian Federation.” His accounts were frozen across the twenty-seven member states. His travel across Schengen was forbidden. Any EU resident who sent him money—for rent, for medicine, for a sandwich—committed a criminal offence. The European payment network, scanning the delivery address against the list, declined the payment automatically. Friends in Brussels began carrying food to his door.
So had he helped Russia in its invasion of Ukraine?
If he had then surely some censure is warranted?
If he had done the same from the Russian side he would surely be dead. probably after torture.
Doesn't sound like he had. Saying things in a podcast or a book is not helping Russia with the invasion. A civilized society doesn't escalate to economic sanctions in response to speech.
Having now read the full article it appears you are correct.
Still it appears the idea for this program originated in the US, was adopted by the EU/Nato and then rejected by the current US administration.
What is a civilised society?
Is the US civilised in demanding all other nations comply with its dictates?
Threatening to bomb Iran back to the stone ages.
Demanding that Iran not develop nuclear weapons while enabling Israel to possess nuclear weapons and commit ongoing war crimes and genocide.
Yes. Red team bad, blue team good. Just don't side with the reds.
But China won the trade war and USA has no rare earths so cannot make more interceptors and you are down to the last dozen interceptors.
That's how a world war is meant to be played. It's supposed to look dire and unwinnable until the last minute.
Hitler thought the same...
As always its the Zionists pulling the strings.
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