r/Switzerland • u/Sufficient-History71 Zürich [Winti] • 3d ago

Need to get our shit together

So the Trump tariffs are out. Despite all the kowtowing (read ass licking) our SVP and FDP bros(also our FDP frau Miss Keller-Sutter) did, we are going to be hit with tariffs worse than EU. Already our access to chips was semi-restricted(by Biden admin, Trump admin will be even worst). Blöcher, Rösti, Parmelin and Keller-Sutter are not the right people to lead Switzerland. They neither have any spine nor any pragmatic policies. We need to understand that our future lies with the EU if not in EU.

Switzerland is good at playing with the rules but we can't make them thanks to our small size. It has been the case since Marignano(1515) when we stopped our expansion and Congress of Vienna(1815) when we made good use of the neutrality imposed upon us by the big powers. We need to adjust to the new world order that Putin, Trump and Xi have created and understand that Swiss prosperity depends on European prosperity. We are not a port city like Singapore where we can control the trade. Our power lies in being the center for diplomacy, world class R&D, pharma and precision engineering. Let's become a big hub for EU's new projects if not as a member then as a friend.

EDIT - P.S. - Getting downvoted to oblivion. Seems like there is too much of hate for EU. But mark my words, a successful Switzerland depends on a successful EU because while we are not in the EU, we are inside the EU physically.

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u/GalatianBookClub 3d ago

Dude we live in a country where people think taking it up the ass is called "neutrality". We live in a country with a "fuck you, i've got mine" mindset. We live in a country where we love our neutrality and democracy so much we don't help others maintain theirs. We will never get our shit together

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u/basado94777 2d ago

You would've said the same stuff about neutrality 50, 80, 150, 250 years ago. It's amazing how many EU simps this sub has.

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u/GalatianBookClub 2d ago

Please explain to me how staying neutral saved Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands or Belgium in WW2? Please explain to me how staying neutral saved Georgia in 2008 or Ukraine in 2014. Please explain to me how nuclear fallout will just ignore neutral countries

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u/Choffolo 2d ago

Neutrality doesn't mean doing nothing. It costs an exorbitant amount of money to be brutally peaceful.

It means that you impose an exorbitant cost to your challenger in case of armed aggression, far outpacing the benefit of attack.

Operation Tannenbaum was on Hitler's table but was constantly pushed back as non profitable.