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Are you referring to Jacques Baud who has been sanctioned recently because he has been working as a mouthpiece of the russian government?
by drooopy 10mo ago
Are you referring to Jacques Baud who has been sanctioned recently because he has been working as a mouthpiece of the russian government?
- newsclues 10mo agoI’ve seen his interviews on YouTube and I’m not sure if he is a Russian asset or just says things contrary to the western narrative. There is a propaganda war. So what hard evidence that he is working for the Russians?
- YY348762378 10mo agoJaques Baud is not a "mouthpiece". He has never appeared on Russian state TV and has taken great pains to avoid citing Russian sources in his analysis. The problem is that what he has been saying about the Ukraine war (that the war is not winnable and peace should be negotiated as soon as possible) is dangerous as to European leadership.
- TheOtherHobbes 10mo agoIt's not remotely dangerous to the European leadership. It is dangerous to EU citizens who are on the receiving end of a campaign to radicalise national governments with far-right Russian-funded puppet regimes which will - clearly, as we can see in the US - be absolutely hostile to existing freedoms.
- modo_mario 10mo agoHonestly I feel like people won't care and the sanctioning helps less and less if it doesn't do the opposite. They feel like repeatedly the baby was thrown out with the bathwater wrt migration and the like despite popular opinion being very much against those. Often getting no genuine choice of opposition that wasn't fringe right. Now I know so many people who will in turn throw out the bathwater containing their national or supranational interests, rule of law (that limited their options), etc. People who one will struggle to reach across the isle... and it was utterly predictable.
- YY49837439287 10mo agoIf they don't want far-right Russian puppets to win then they should actually respond to the wants and needs of their voters instead of scolding anyone who goes against their neoliberal warmonger groupthink as "pro-Russian", whatever that means. They're only digging their own graves if they think denying reality will save them.
- mfost 10mo agoOr maybe we should stop the propaganda arm of the US fascists distorting the reality around here and inventing needs that our population doesn't actually need so that they are pushed towards far right parties? Or how about making sure the corrupted US society do something about them messing up the world economy because rich people want to be richer and so they bought their governments through once again their propaganda arms of all the social media and news corporations they bought? What about the parts where the US would bomb constantly the ME thus making the people living there want to move out. But of course they won't go to the place that bombed them, especially since there's a whole ocean between them so instead they come to us in the Europe. Oh and if it's not bombs, it's global warming anyway, another thing the current US government pushes hard for.
- derelicta 10mo ago[flagged]
- koonsolo 10mo agoYou are correct, everybody should go for peace. The Munich agreement of 1938 also prevented a lot of deaths, so I really can't understand why the don't want to do the same peace deal today.
- vfclists 10mo agoIn the same way John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs are mouthpieces of the Russian govt? Since when is it OK for governments to sanction people when they are lawfully expressing disagreement with Govt policies or views?
- mopsi 10mo ago> Since when is it OK for governments to sanction people when they are lawfully expressing disagreement with Govt policies or views? When it stops being a disagreement over policy and becomes a paid job for a foreign government to spread as much malicious FUD as possible. The former commander of Russian ground forces recently gave a long interview in which he said that the Russian army was on the verge of total collapse in the fall of 2022, when Ukrainian forces were pushing them back during the highly successful Kharkiv counteroffensive. Mearsheimer, Sachs, et al played a vital role in spreading FUD and unfounded fears that led to less military support for Ukraine than was needed. As a result, hundreds of thousands more people are dead than might have been had Ukraine been supported properly. Mearsheimer alone has done more to deny modern weapons to Ukraine than the entire Russian air force could. In terms of ROI, he has been a spectacularly cost-effective propaganda asset. He has the blood of countless people on his hands and deserves to be hanged. But instead, he will kick the bucket due to natural causes in old age, a luxury not afforded to the children who died in their bedrooms under Russian missile attacks that Mearsheimer twisted himself into a pretzel to enable and justify.
- throw-the-towel 10mo agoDo you remember the name of that Russian commander, by any chance?
- SanjayMehta 10mo agoGen. Oleg Salyukov is/was the ground commander. I don't believe he's made this statement ever.
- mopsi 10mo agoIf I recall correctly, Vladimir Chirkin (commander-in-chief of Russian ground forces 2012-2013) said that in the 27 November 2025 interview with Yuri Tamantsev on RBC. I went back to verify it, but the entire interview is now missing from both RBC's website and Tamantsev's YouTube channel as well. Only a reupload of the first segment can be found on another YouTube channel.
- derelicta 10mo ago[flagged]
- TheOtherHobbes 10mo agoIf the people who attacked Ukraine without provocation - just as they attacked other neighbours in other regions - are attempting to bring down a democratically elected regimes across the region, so they can replace them with weak compliant puppets, the "thought crime" becomes straightforward self defence.
- derelicta 10mo ago[flagged]
- orwin 10mo agoIt was though. If Russia wanted to annex Ukrainian separatist states, it could have done so before they invaded. Since it didn't, Ukraine never attacked Russian territory. Then Ukraine the elected a Jewish person whose mother tongue is Russian and speaks Ukrainian with a slight russian accent. Which threw their 'Nazis who want to kill Russian-speaking Ukrainians' narrative in the trash, and maybe it was lived as a provocation since it made Russian propagandists looks like fools.
- throw-the-towel 10mo agoSorry but the "Jewish President" defence is invalid since the Gaza war.
- orwin 10mo ago? Néo-nazis still hate on all Jews, this didn't change with the Gaza war. I still think it is hard to call an entire nation neo-nazi, and then have that nation vote for a Jew (especially when that nation have a huge Christian majority.). Like I said, it made propagandists look like fools.