Neutral Switzerland denies airspace for US military flights to Iran

1776% tariff on Swiss Army knives

Doing what you've always done, in the way you've always done it is not participating in any trends. Just because your granddads shoes he's worn for 40 years suddenly become "in", doesn't make him trendy.

Not letting other militaries into your country is like half of what being neutral is.

Well, yeah, but they could try being like... *more* neutral, y'know? lol c'mon dude

No, in the context of geopolitical conflict this is as neutral as you can get. Further neutrality would require somehow relocating your country to another planet or dimension.

Think I’m going to leave the neighbourhood watch group because Craig from next door won’t come and clean up my mess. What a bunch of losers!

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

It's still tight unless Morocco allows it.

*cheeks.

I mean, he had enough balls to say no to joining the war, much against the will of the UK press and opposition parties. He held his nerve and public opinion is clearly on his side.

Think you're wrong here. Starmer has handled Trump and his bullshit quite well in my opinion.

And no oil apparently lol /s

This is unfair and inaccurate in context of post.

Switzerland even had internment camps for downed pilots to be held until the end of war.

like this would ever happen nowadays... If this kind of event were to occur, swiss politics would probably scramble together to find a loophole in the swiss policy so as to *not* do anything.

I don't think they can technically

Yeah that one is fucked. The explanation behind it takes a bit to explain but to cut it short: african warlord in the 60/70s used swiss made AA guns to shoot at planes from the red cross trying to deliver aid, additional it came out that swiss guns appeared in all sorts of warzones in the hands of 'badguys'. After that pretty much all exports were banned.  Over the years it got more and more relaxed but at the time the war started and as of now it's fully illegal to send weapons to a warzone and to allow other countries the resale of swiss made arms into warzones. So legally the Bundesrat couldn't comply, even if they wanted. Of course our weapons industry got rightfully fucked by that because only an imbecile would at this point buy arms from us.  Now what really pisses me off: There is a coming change to that law that would allow the bundesrat to allow the sale and resale of arms into warzones to 'trusted partners' that basically include NATO (except Turkiye), the EU, UK, Australia, Japan, Canada ... But these mfers didn't add Ukraine to that list...  I get it with the amount of corruption in ukraine before the war, but it's tonedeaf at best and I f****** hate it. That is if the law passes a referendum against it... Which will be another story in and for itself as a pretty big alliance of pacifists and ukraine supporters don't want it in the current form. 

> switzerland blocked their allies from sending their stocks of swiss-made ammo to ukraine 1. Switzerland has no allies. 2. It's literally in the contract: no sending of swiss-made military products to countries in conflict.

Hostile = not saying yes to everything?

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Yeah I wonder how the revolution who put the crazies in power happened by the way...?

Dafuq u r talking about?

Noone has been worrying about supporting iran at all, that's nowhere near the point Not to mention that the UK complaining about Iran being a pain would be peak irony, they are the ones who caused everything that's going on in iran

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran\_and\_state-sponsored\_terrorism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism) >Denmark >In October 2018, [Denmark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark) said the Iranian government intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-Demark=-ABC-2018-4) The planned assassination was of an exiled leader of the [Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Struggle_Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_Ahvaz) (ASMLA). Sweden extradited a Norwegian national of Iranian background to Denmark in connection with the foiled plot against the ASMLA leader.[^(\[35\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-jpostAlbaniaplot-35) In February 2020 Denmark arrested three leading members of an (ASMLA) group on suspicion of spying for Saudi Arabia and for supporting an attack in Iran in 2018.[^(\[36\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-36) >France >Main article: [Iranian diplomat terror plot trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_diplomat_terror_plot_trial) >In October 2018 France froze Iranian financial assets in response to an alleged bomb plot to be carried out against an opposition group at a rally in Paris. The plot was said to be against the [National Council of Resistance of Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Resistance_of_Iran), which styles itself as Iran's [government-in-exile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-in-exile).[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-france-thetimes-2018-5) [Assadollah Assadi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assadollah_Assadi), an Iranian diplomat in the [Vienna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna) embassy, was arrested in [Germany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany) in connection with the alleged plot to blow up a meeting of Iranian dissidents in [Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris) in June.[^(\[35\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-jpostAlbaniaplot-35) >The rally was attended by an estimated 100,000 Iranians and hundreds of international dignitaries. A [British Member of Parliament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) who attended said "Had the plot succeeded, it would have been the deadliest terror operation ever carried out in Europe. The US would undeniably have declared war on Iran – and it was only because the plot was foiled, world war three was averted." [Belgian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium) police had been informed of a possible attack on the rally, and found 550g (1lb 3oz) of explosive and a detonator in the car of Amir Saadouni and Nasimeh Naami. Saadouni, Naami, Assadi (believed to be the mastermind), and another Iranian went on trial in [Antwerp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp) on 27 November 2020. Court documents allege that Assadi was ordered by Iranian authorities to smuggle the explosives into Europe on a commercial flight, and give them to Saadouni and Naami, who were arrested two days later.[^(\[37\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-37) >In February 2021 Belgian court in Antwerp sentenced Assadollah Assadi to 20-year jail term for this bomb plot. Amir Saadouni and Nasimeh Naami and a fourth man, Belgian-Iranian poet [Merhad Arefani](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merhad_Arefani&action=edit&redlink=1), who was arrested in Paris and accused of being an accomplice, were convicted of taking part in the plot and given jail terms of 15 to 18 years.[^(\[38\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-38) >Sweden >According to [Doku.nu](http://Doku.nu), two men in Sweden, Mohammad Heidari and Shayan Tousynezhad, are linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and allegedly used false identities to gain asylum. Despite warnings from German authorities and suspicions they planned to target Swedish Jews, they were granted residency and are believed to pose a threat to Swedish security and the Iranian diaspora. Experts warn they may be part of a broader network of Iranian agents operating in Sweden.[^(\[90\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#cite_note-90) you were saying?

Authentic Listnook big brain opinion right here

The US have been the bad guys for a long time. In this century alone, the estimated death toll of both direct and indirect action by the U.S is around 4.5 million. >An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who died “indirectly,” as a result of the wars’ destruction of economies, healthcare systems, infrastructure and the environment. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting. https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

No, because the US does not carry out terrorism and Trump is not a tyrant (he may want to be one but he isn't one because we have a democracy with checks and balances that has limited his power).

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