NATO can't fight Russia | Col. Jacques Baud 

Russian is not Libya Afghanistan... Russian is strong and bless God continue to bless Russian

The belief in the collapse of the Russian economy was not so much a mistake, as a display of poor understanding of real economy.

Jacques Baud: Europe’s leading facts based, objective, balanced, scholarly geopolitical analyst. Swiss intelligence officer. Expertise in military and field of UN international law. Merci infiniment 🙏🏼🕯🕯🙏🏼 Paris

This man, Jacques Baud is a font of knowledge, wisdom and honesty

Thank you Nima AGAIN!! Wonderful show AGAIN!! Mr Baud is a MUST WATCH guest!!

Most people haven’t experienced combat. I have always said that NATO cannot fight any formidable opponent. I say that as a former soldier who have seen combat

Thank you Nima. I absolutely love how Col Baud speaks with so much clarity and logic. Too bad Western leaders do not listen to him. Europe will pay a huge price because when it realizes that it is in deep trouble (by its own doing no less!) it will be too late to revert back. And the "rebuilding" will take years, especially because making amends with the Russians after how abusive and haughty these leaders have been towards Russia, it will take a long time to forgive, if ever. Best regards from Guatemala 🙂

That was a very good analysis. The USA, GB, and the EU underestimated Russian economic strength. They thought they could swiftly destroy the Russian economy with sanctions. All their plans to Balkanise Russia and exploit its rich resources fell apart when the sanctions failed and it has backfired badly on the West. Now it is we in the West who are economically in ruins.

Ty Nima! You are always asking good questions and your way is very professional. Keep up the good work!

Except Hungary who have leaderships who think of their people Thanks Sir

Jacque Baud is just brilliant

Russians conducting an attrition operation, at the same time they patiently waiting to see if NATO army enters this conflict. They calculate their moves before the jump. NATO acts on emotion and political pressure, this is why they haven’t won any wars. It’s not ww2 when large part of the country was occupied by the Nazi. The name of the game is attrition and patience.

Jacques Baud is simply the best.

This gentleman has explained the facts in a rational and very clear way, thanks a lot

Nima you hereby have the best program when it comes to the spectrum of quality of guests you have. As I only work 45 percent (pension foreign soldier), can listen to podcasts during working hours and am out with the dog for 4 hours. Have I vacuumed the entire English-language market with similar programs of such breadth are libertarian Judge Napoltano, the few in the United States who do not just stay within their ideological roots.

Col. Jacques Baud, someone who gets it! Excellent podcast, thank you.👍

I appreciate the way you let your host to explain his argument. Calm , efficiency. The host is a brillant geopolitical analyst, and military expert. Thank you Subscribed

Mr. Baud is a military man, but his political analysis is better than many political scientists.

They think they can fight that's the problem

Your shows are top notch

This is very helpful post exposing western lies and hype which is completely divorced from reality

"The Americans will make every effort to avoid an escalation." What a relief. I was worried because it sure looks like they are working to do the opposite.

11:50 - I know what he meant, but it is ALSO because "Russians are smarter", ie Russia and China produce wayyy more STEM graduates. Generally, they have a much greater focus on education, engineering, and technical literacy. Whereas in the US, like many other fields, education is a business, first and foremost, and there is a dearth of American-made STEM career graduates.

Thanks Nima😊

Good evening to both

"Democracy and VALUES" are VERBOTEN. WEF said so.

Mr Nima God Bless you❤🎉 Col Jacques Exellent❤❤❤❤

Excellent..col.Jacqes Baud

Great stuff

Thank you for being a truthseeker.

The world is a stage and we the people become actor's responsible for our success or failure in life. God have mercy 🙏🏻

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Great show Nima! I enjoyed listening to Col. Baud, who understands the conflict in Ukraine and the European situation and explained it very well. I liked that he discussed the south and BRICS as I feel this will be very important for the balance of world power. I would listen to him again, when you have him on.

What a wonderful guest! So interesting and insightful! Thank you!

Historically, fear has always been an element of European attitudes towards Russia.

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Nima, you have the very best show on all the internet, for us to get facts about what's going on in the world and why, from renowned experts. Since discovering you, I've dumped several others that just don't hold up with you for clear, concise, reliable data and explanations of events & trends.

Why not give Jacques costeau Baud a regular hour each week? To discuss latest headlines....

I truly appreciate being able to listen to voices like Col Jacques Baud that offer opinions and ideas based on such a strong foundation of learning and experience rather than the emotion, lies, ignorance and/or propaganda of others who cover the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Thank you both. Great conversation as usual.

Nice job on the economics.

" Fight " The thing that surprises me is: How in the world is Ukraine/Nato/Usa or whoever going to defeat a nation with over 11 time zone,enough resources to supply the world for years to come.On top of that a nuclear power. I would like to know what have the people in charge of the above countrys fighting Russia what have they drank to think they can defeat it.

Jacques Baud ist one of the best informed und most intelligent experts of geopolitics that we have in Western Europe and what the main thing is: he ist a rational, not ideological thinking man who is interested in the true facts of what happens in the world. It's always a pleasure to listen to his analysis of the war in Ukraine and elsewhere.

Every show, Wow! Thank you

excellent commentary, thanks

Why did the Russians leave the military industry in the hands of the state rather than private contractors? Maybe because they are still smarter? I am amazed by the ability in the West to see the effect, but not recognize the cause.

Nima ... Such expert guests - You are the best.

The US is fighting Russia using two proxies. Ukraine and the EU.

Executive summary. Thank you.

In Brzezinski's 'The Grand Chessboard'? the worst thinkable outcome in Eurasia (from Empires POV) is an alliance between Russia, China and Iran. However he consider it so unlikely, that he didn't want to waste time elaborating on the possibility. Maybe there was some updates in his 2007? revised edition of the book.

The US advised the EU not to impose some sanctions, but who blew up the Nordstream gas pipelines 🤔

When it comes to the specifics of military issues, M. Baud is my favorite guest.

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Here is the voice of a peacemakers, we do well to listen to his wise words, that we avoid a far worse outcome. God knows it's a terrible tragedy already.

사실에 기초한 진실👌을 알리려는 당신들을~~~ 진정으로 존경 합니다. 🙏🙏🙏

Ukraine is the fulcrum by which the new world is being levered into being -- and the old world displaced.

Such a brilliant programme. Thanks. See Dominic Cummings’ views in Politico. There is one point I will raise. Col Baud mentioned that USA advised Europe aagainst oil sanctions. Many feel USA blew up Nordstream. If so, it appears USA played a very large role in oil sanctions against Russia.

As a person who has performed numerous economic and statistical analyses, and I say this with all modesty as I had and have no delusions of grandeur in this department, Monsieur Baud’s discussion of Germany’s so-called fiscal woes are somewhat misguided in that rising deficits are not the real problem, but problems with lack of currency sovereignty probably are or will become so. The Euro is a major part of the problem as it was designed to function along neoconservative constraints rather than as a flexible tool of government monetary and fiscal policy which is possible with (say) the US dollar or even the Indian rupee. Also, should international corporations headquartered in Deutschland remain there, the capital flows should return even if much of the production moves offshore (that is, outside the Euro zone). The DAX, for instance, which I watch closely, is quite buoyant despite the crisis in the East and elsewhere or the supposed plans of companies like Siemens to relocate their facilities to China or other more amenable places, ergo, if the money returns, it can potentially be taxed. That’s just one of many vectors at work.

Col. Jacques Baud =very smart officer !

That is right

always like to listen to the Col. .rational intelligent knowledgeable balanced and insightful commentary.. Hope the western governments come to their senses and not continue to be delusional about their so called importance and power.

"we're going from wrong assessment to worse assessment! Indeed

The price of oil is not as high as it was pre-COVID. But there were no complaints about inflation then.

In Switzerland we never see interviews of Jaques Baud in the state media. Instead we see interviews with so- called journalists that have no idea about politics and history.

Can't afford... They don't care what it cost.... Decide. Can or can't...

Europe was already facing longterm economic and demographic decline. Support for Ukraine has accelerated decline. Canada is the only G7 nation with a debt/GDP ratio under 100%.

Russia can not be bullied

great insight that this is a war of National interests vs. Corporate Interests.

It is not only a question of Private vs public but also Russia has almost unlimited resources this is the key.

EU interests were also mentioned explicitly by Borrell. Although the examples he put forward as arguments in his CNN interview were standard mainstream media nonsense.

I like when Jaques Baud answers back.

Thanks for this opportunity to. Comment but nobody understands Africa.

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What would NATO fight Russia with if ever.

Napolean and Hitler gone long back but not their goals.

Someone said NATOY.

11:30 "Russia has definitely a War Industry that works much better.. And why does it work better? it's not [mainly] because the Russians are smarter..." (Though that helps.)

Very good summary. What Col. Baud describes is not the collapse of the West, which will not happen, but the eventual collapse of seven decades of ideologically driven political economy. What he describes as "irrationality", can only be understood if one can discern the difference between ideals, "market Driven Society", and reality, "Functional Society".The Global South, over seven decades, has not been able, productively, to afford any kind of ideological pretension, indeed, the collapse of the Soviet Union was symbolic of that reality. Reforms in the political economy of the Global South, over 40 years, transformed those societies towards functionality-driven-decision-making. The West, on the other hand, is still involved with the vanity of trying to prove theoretical concepts, even when there is evidence of their impracticability, or "irrationality", leading to cumulative societal dysfunctionality. At the moment, the West, instead of engaging with the urgency and necessity of a new "reformation", is projecting its internal dissonance onto the Global South, for fear of the inevitable radical changes in the decision making institutions that such major reform will produce.

problem ? Western countries ? totally fubar'ed ?

I agree with most of this, but nations that issue it's own currency do not fund war from tax revenue. Bonds and money printing Remember that for someone to hold debt someone else owes that debt, a subject we don't have much debate about

I wonder what they will say after the sanctions start to backfire

Even ordinary Russians don't know how powerful and how big the Russian Federation is. If you live in Moscow or St.Peterburg, the Russian Federation Pacific Coast, Siberia, Central and Southern Russian Federation Republics seem like on another planet. Yet, all these places, republics have their own issues and have own governing...but all culminating into the central Russian Federation Parliament, The Duma. The Russian Federation is so big and diverse with over 200 different nationalities, that it challenges the mind to extremes.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” (Voltaire) Netanyahu's message to Mr Zelenskyj: All Jews are equal, but some Jews are more equal than others. "Steiner... Yes! YES! STEINER WILL LEAD THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE! IT WILL ALL BE FINE! FINE! (trembling hands removes glasses)" - a line from Mr Zelens'kyj's favourite movie. * "The war has ended, not necessarily to the advantage of Japan" - Emperor of Japan addressing the nation after (un)conditional capitulation in 1945 * Mr Zelens'kyj's swan song. I am standing alone on the stage in front of the drawn curtain. The empty prompter's booth... and box-office. Deafening silence. No limelight. No fans. No applause. No flowers. Disappointed audience have left a long time ago. A cleaner is about to finish his work. The piano lid has slammed shut. Unbearable pain has brought me back to my senses. The show is over. *** "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become king. But the palace becomes a circus!" - Turkish proverb *** "Put him on stage and remove a ladder" - Chinese proverb referring to bad performers. *** "There was once a comedian who killed people with stolen jokes and was hanged by his wits' end." - H.Warner *** "How pathetic the jester is, on the king's throne, How stupid the people who allowed it." - Robert Burns 1759-1796 * “Ukraine shouldn’t sign anything with them at all - and let’s just fight.” - Boris Johnson, Kyiv on Apr. 9, 2022 * "Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly rejected the claims that he interfered with peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2022." - Kyiv Post, January 11, 2024 "Если с вами в окопах нет детей чиновников, то это не война, а бизнес" - Жак Фреско Армія, в якій кількість дезертирів перевершує кількість новобранців - це вже не армія. Zelensky reminds me The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail priceless scene. "Your arm's off!" "No it isn't!" “Look you stupid bastard you’ve got no arms left!” "It's a flesh wound. I've had worse. "Well what's that then?" "I’m invincible!” “You’re a looney.” “Alright, we’ll call it a draw!”

Please talk about Biafra Liberation 😢😢❤❤

The conflict in Ukraine will be as historically impactful as WWII. Maybe more so.

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The war makes the military industrial complex and the chair holders very rich. The USA and Europe are acting like world war 2 never happened. Russia did not exploit Africa to the contrary they helped Africa when the west refused like the Asian dam. During this time the Europeans exploited Africa and they got very rich. Belgium got very rich by exploiting the Kongo and France got cheap uranium that gave a wonderful life to the French people. All that is forgotten by the European Public.

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Col. Baud is an excellent analyst of the political issues of Europe and beyond. The EU has essentially committed economic and political suicide.

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In street parlance, NOTA is asking for it....

Instigator wow . 😂❤❤🎉🎉😂

15:40 USA can help to avoid escalation?? The USA MIC is profiting from the escalation, LOL.

What NATO is going to fight with

Joe Biden doesn't decide even to go to the toilet, let's alone anything else.

They are in decline. It is inevitable. They would rather be dominated by a hegemon across an ocean rather than next door. This is the basis of their angst.

⚖️🇳🇿secretary Stoltenberg is in charge of papers and documents, NATO is prolific in producing.😂

playing poker with a fool who has a big pile of chips- you want to keep on playing. But what is the strategy when you are in conflict with a fool who has a machine gun?

France, 1788.

Us, se Europe as a BUFFER zone.... Just as Russia...