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Military situation in Ukraine, by an ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence - superadmin - 06-10-2022 The military situation in Ukraine, as seen by an ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence By Jacques Baud* RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL –  Part One: The Road To War – For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. [….] Let’s try to examine the roots of the [Ukrainian] conflict. It starts with those who for the last eight years have been talking about “separatists” or “independentists” from Donbass. This is a misnomer. 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). - More -