The EU, led by what the whole world recognizes as a group of literal idiots, sanctioned a 70 year old Swiss intelligence analyst, with a brief explanation (Google-translated from German) as follow:

Jacques Baud, former colonel in the Swiss Army and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programs. He shall act as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and spreads conspiracy theories, by accusing Ukraine, for example, of bringing about its own invasion to have to join NATO. Therefore, Jacques Baud is in favor of actions or policies that Government of the Russian Federation and which supports the stability or undermine or threaten security in a third country (Ukraine) through which Participation in the use of information manipulation and influence responsible, implements or supports them.

The sanctions require that Colonel Baud's accounts be frozen, his property seized, that he remains in Belgium, that he shall have no assistance moral, financial or practical, from friends, neighbors, his publishers, or anyone else. The rats in Brussels are currently being starved just in case Colonel Baud needs to have a head cage installed, as he most obviously deserves one.

All crimes against the EU, and its trembling military faction, must be punished! Lies and counter-narratives be silenced! Those with eyes to see, ears to hear, and IQs above room temperature must be stopped!

The EU is committed to fight a fantastic and phantasmagorical enemy, the most fearsome Russian Federation, bent on the destruction and occupation of all of Europe. All kneel at this procession of fear and fabulosity!

It might be comedic, if it were not true. Only bad dystopian fiction composed by addled insomniacs on a bender would include such a juvenile scene setter. And yet it happened last week.