Col. Jacques Baud, on Dialogue Works, discusses Tucker Carlson's warning that a nuclear strike on Iran may be imminent.
Book:Wars Against Iran — Jacques Baud, English edition
Max Milo, 2026. 304 pages. ISBN 9782315028689.
Why is Iran, which has not attacked any country in more than two centuries, cast as the main threat in the Middle East? Jacques Baud draws on official documents, reports from international organizations, and the military record. He reconstructs how the United States, Israel, and Iran reached open confrontation, and how Tehran has answered since 2024.
Scott Ritter sits with Jacques Baud in Brussels and introduces the Swiss colonel to an American audience, opening on Europe and free speech. Baud describes his path as a citizen-soldier and strategic-intelligence analyst, from Warsaw Pact work and training in the US and UK to UN peacekeeping and a NATO small-arms post that took him to Ukraine in 2014.
Scott Ritter tells Judge Napolitano that EU sanctions on Jacques Baud, a Swiss officer living in Brussels, froze his bank, and that officials told a German parliamentarian even a loaf of bread would break the sanctions.
He says a later review dropped the Russian-propagandist charge, kept the sanctions because Baud is so neutral that his speaking would reinforce Russia's position, and calls those sanctions a death penalty.
Jacques Baud, former Swiss colonel and strategic military intelligence analyst, lives in Brussels under EU sanctions that have frozen his assets and restricted his life.
In this conversation he describes the everyday reality of those sanctions: food brought by people who call themselves a resistance, strangers stopping him on the street every day to offer support, a humanitarian banking exemption that took five months to approve and still isn't fully implemented, and sanctions that are renewed with no clear end date.
He explains why he sees the current European system as a "democrature," why foreign-policy tools are being used inside the EU, and how his case has become emblematic for many Europeans who feel the same pressures.
Nima Alkhorshid asks Jacques Baud about a Wall Street Journal report that Saudi Arabia is short of interceptor missiles after daily Yemeni attacks, including cruise missiles that crossed more than 800 kilometers, one of them striking King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Baud says missiles have become the decisive weapon in this war of attrition and that the West has little left to offer after Ukraine and the Middle East.
