| Ryuu96 said: Switzerland's pathetic "neutrality" only helps Russia. It is easy to be "neutral" when you're surrounded by allies and at no threat at all, they hide behind stronger countries with more courage to protect them while Switzerland only cares purely about their own self-interests. It isn't neutrality, it's them playing both sides so they always win. They want to keep both EU and Russia happy. Often, neutrality is used as an excuse to hide the real reasons, one of those could be cowardice and the other could be greed, a fear of losing money and relationships that you have with the aggressor, both of these things help the aggressor to continue their campaign of violence, if the entire world was this pathetically "neutral" then countries like Russia would take whatever country they wanted to. Switzerland should consider how they would like it if they were ever attacked and all their "allies" turned around and said that they couldn't help Switzerland because we're now neutral. Looking the other way and ignoring it just helps evil. We wouldn't think twice about aiding Switzerland, it would be the right thing to do. Almost wish that countries would just ignore Switzerland and send shit to Ukraine anyway...What are they going to do? Sue us? Bitch and moan? Stop supplying us and destroy their military industry? I don't know why any sane country after this would continue buying from Switzerland, imagine if a NATO country were to be attacked and we couldn't send them aid because Switzerland won't allow it, I doubt we'd listen to them then. Just have to imagine if Ukraine was in NATO and still attacked. I imagine either two scenarios, we send Ukraine Switzerland made tanks that we purchased from them and ignore their whining or we roll into Ukraine with those tanks ourselves to attack Russia with and at that point what difference does it make? The end result is the same, Switzerland made tanks being used to kill Russians. Switzerland is a country of pure greed. |
Ryuu, whilst I agree it is frustrating from the standpoint of aiding Ukraine's self-defence, I have to disagree with you on Switzerland being 'pathetic' and motivated by 'pure greed'.
Switzerland's neutrality has persisted since the end of the Napoleonic Wars - the last conflict they were involved in that occurred over 200 years ago. That is pretty notably given all the wars that have occurred around them since then which could very easily have drawn them in. This is not just both World Wars, but the German Unification Wars, the Franco-Prussian Wars, the Italian Unification Wars. Was was Neutral during the Cold War. Its also worth noting that in WW2 Switzerland was surrounded on all sides by the Axis powers, who even had a planned but ultimately never enacted invasion plan (Operation Tabnnenbaum).
The neutrality is obviously a lot easier to aide in times of peace, and having such a vehemently neutral state is useful in such times - it where vehemently hostile states like the US and Iran are comfortable meeting to discuss things like the nuclear deal. That sort of thing is more difficult if Switzerland abandons its neutral stance.
