Why won’t the Swiss think of the American children that need access to those guns?! /s
School supplies
I was very annoyed at them when they did it to Ukraine, but it’s honestly a lot more based in this context
With Ukraine they refuse to support a country that is being attacked, with the USA they refuse to support a country that is attacking another. While I don’t condone the former, the latter is definitely based.
At least no one can complain that they aren’t consistent
Switzerland has been selling weapons to Israel since 1955 from what I can tell, and I haven’t been able to find any info that they’ve stopped recently
I see new licenses have been suspended in recent years, but I’ve also read that doesn’t prevent sales from older licenses.
So they’re as neutral as they were during WWII when they continued trading with the Nazis.
Its actually just a mirror image at that point.
But Israel called Switzerland anti semitic and will do it again if Switzerland doesn’t do what they ask
Well gee, we could return the things stolen from Jews by Nazis… or we could just sell weapons to Israel. That’s easier and more profitable!
Does Switzerland export much in the way of weapons to the US?
Apparently what I can find
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Aerial vehicles SwissDrones
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Ammunition SwissP
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Small arms Swiss Arms parent to SIG Sauer AG
Having said that, Sig Sauer’s US arms is entirely US manufactured and some how independent of their parent. Ammo is also made in the US. So the M17, M18, MCX, and others are unlikely to be affected. Drones though… I didn’t dig on that.
This sort of political cutoff and worse is why the US military has required domestic manufacturing. LE still might be impacted, but can probably deal without more guns and drones.
Having said that I do respect the swiss for cutting the US off and sticking to their neutrality.
I would too if someone hadn’t just pointed out they sell weapons to Israel, and despite suspending new licenses continue selling to them under old licenses. They get no credit as far as I’m concerned.
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