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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

But the Swiss are supposed to be neutral!

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 points 3 weeks ago

They're certainly not neutral about cashing in all those service fees, whoever is on the other end of them.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Also all the gold fillings that mysteriously appeared in the 40's

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

This neutrality applies to the state (the Swiss Confederation), not to its subjects. And it mostly boils down to "we won't send troops to either side".

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago

"we will provide banking/loot storage services to both sides"

FTFY.

Thought to their credit they are trying to be slightly less amoral in recent years.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In practice, yes. Sadly a consequence of the above.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

So they like the stash in Diablo huh

They'd be very neutral my ass if they weren't surrounded by democratic non-hostile states from which they steal through tax evasion. They benefit from the EU single market and open borders and contribute nothing.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like cassus belli if I ever saw one

YUROP intensifies

Closed borders and airspaces would be so funny. It's like a medieval siege on a country.

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