Can someone send him the list of sanctions that Switzerland joined?
I told you guys following sanctions was stupid. You can say it doesn’t hurt neutrality all you want if other countries define that differently.
I mean Switzerland has been neutral more or less in the post Napoleonic period, but when the HRE was around, the confederation took sides
Neutral? Lmao… what about the German/Italian trains traversing our alpes in the middle of the night during WWII?
Switzerland is still neutral, economic sanctions aren’t not neutral.
I get that economical and political neutrality is not a simple black and white issue and that this might be a way too trivial approach, but a referee calls a foul if it is a foul and yet, stays neutral.
Neutrality as defined in the post-war European order simply means abstaining from joining any military pact or armed conflict beyond self defence or military operations sanctioned by the United Nations. Anything beyond that narrow interpretation is subject to how the Swiss people interpret their neutrality.
Crazy take. Not only because Switzerland regularly takes economic sanctions as a sovreign country (as it did against the South African regime in the 70s), but also because it sent TROOPS in the Kosovo war in the 90s, under a NATO mandate. So this is certainly not the most dramatic breach in neutrality we’ve seen in recent history.
Well Swiss isn’t neutral anymore.
Well Swiss isn’t neutral anymore.
Helping an aggressor is not neutral!. That is why switzerland also put up sanctions.
“centuries” as in 2 ?
Switzerland sanctioned other countries before, less than a century ago.
If condemning war crimes means not being neutral I am damn fucking fine with it
People really need to understand that Switzerland’s neutrality has conditions and is not absolute otherwise we would just not talk to the rest if the world.
It is also possible that the Swiss are okay with this general misperception by the global public. No, they did not go into full sanctions with the EU. Yes, they are okay with the rest of the world thinking that they did because it looks good on them. If you notice, there is no direct communication from any Swiss official in any major news outlet saying that they DID NOT participate in full sanctions… No big public denial as such. This misperception works for them in the global stage.
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This is **Daleep Singh** who is a Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics in the Biden administration.
The clip is from the latest 60 Minutes broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_x2LQZOzF8
Can someone send him the list of sanctions that Switzerland joined?
I told you guys following sanctions was stupid. You can say it doesn’t hurt neutrality all you want if other countries define that differently.
I mean Switzerland has been neutral more or less in the post Napoleonic period, but when the HRE was around, the confederation took sides
Neutral? Lmao… what about the German/Italian trains traversing our alpes in the middle of the night during WWII?
Switzerland is still neutral, economic sanctions aren’t not neutral.
I get that economical and political neutrality is not a simple black and white issue and that this might be a way too trivial approach, but a referee calls a foul if it is a foul and yet, stays neutral.
Neutrality as defined in the post-war European order simply means abstaining from joining any military pact or armed conflict beyond self defence or military operations sanctioned by the United Nations. Anything beyond that narrow interpretation is subject to how the Swiss people interpret their neutrality.
Crazy take. Not only because Switzerland regularly takes economic sanctions as a sovreign country (as it did against the South African regime in the 70s), but also because it sent TROOPS in the Kosovo war in the 90s, under a NATO mandate. So this is certainly not the most dramatic breach in neutrality we’ve seen in recent history.
Well Swiss isn’t neutral anymore.
Well Swiss isn’t neutral anymore.
Helping an aggressor is not neutral!. That is why switzerland also put up sanctions.
“centuries” as in 2 ?
Switzerland sanctioned other countries before, less than a century ago.
Edit: quite often: https://www.finma.ch/de/dokumentation/internationale-sanktionen-und-terrorismusbekaempfung/internationale-sanktionen-und-selbststaendige-blockierungsmassnahmen/
If condemning war crimes means not being neutral I am damn fucking fine with it
People really need to understand that Switzerland’s neutrality has conditions and is not absolute otherwise we would just not talk to the rest if the world.
It is also possible that the Swiss are okay with this general misperception by the global public. No, they did not go into full sanctions with the EU. Yes, they are okay with the rest of the world thinking that they did because it looks good on them. If you notice, there is no direct communication from any Swiss official in any major news outlet saying that they DID NOT participate in full sanctions… No big public denial as such. This misperception works for them in the global stage.