Yes, Switzerland is part of Western Europe and it is very wealthy and beautiful, but aside from that, it has no strategic importance, as it is a landlocked neutral country. You didn’t join the EU despite being in the heart of Europe, so why should anyone prioritize your military needs when you are neutral, not part of NATO and not part of the EU?
You are not very well educated therefore you are speaking absolute nonsense.
1.Switzerland did apply for EU membership, but later it was withdrawn since on a referendum it was voted by the people against EU membership (By a narrow margin just so you stop speaking nonsense again), the UK is also not in the EU anymore after brexit which was also by a narrow margin, does that make them not important strategically and to Europe? What a bounch of cr*p.
Switzerland also despite not being an EU member is closely tied with the EU by many bilateral agrements and is almost like an EU member despite not being officialy in EU.
2.Switzerland does not join NATO because of its long term standing on neutrality and not participating in wars, and yet Switzerland cooperates with NATO in alot of peacekeeping operations and security operations so again it has very close ties with NATO.
You seriously have no clue about the things you speak
First of all, the foreign country you are talking about is a future EU country, so it is natural for Europe to care about it and help it overcome its problems. When it will join the EU, it will not be a foreign country anymore, but an EU member state, so more integrated than Switzerland.
As for European economy being sh*t because of the sanctions on Russia, this is just another big lie propagated by Putin’s propaganda. Europe’s economy has been stagnant since 2008, because of the very high bureocracy, high taxation, bad demographics, big governments as a percentage of the economy (bad resource allocation) and high debt burden. Europe’s economic problems are old and have nothing to do with the sanctions against Russia.
Its not an EU country as of this moment is it? So whether it will or not be is just speculation and has no bearing on the current reality. Ukraine has nothing to do with the EU and NATO as of this moment, no matter what you write or what potential future you are talking about here.
And yes, at least something you wrote has some truth to it, European economy has a wide range of problems and many of the problems you listed ar indeed responsible for that, however before the Ukranian war the European economy was in a much better shape and those are just facts and the reality of the situation, European economy was hit quite hard since the war, its only natural, denying it is ignorance.
And I can say the same about you. You don’t give a sh*t because you live in Switzerland, and are far from Ukraine. I am Romanian, and my country borders Ukraine, so I care a lot more than you do about this conflict. I don’t want my country to be neighbors with Russia. I want Ukraine and Moldova to join the EU and NATO and act as a buffer between my country and Russia. The fact that I live in another country doesn’t mean that I don’t go home often, and I still have family and friends at home, so of course I care about what happens in Europe.
Actually due to my job im abroad a lot and have stayed in a fair amount of EU countries for quite long times, and im not talking about weeks or 1-2 months here. So EU is extremely important for me on a very personal level, so I have alot to do with how the EU is and its economy, but nice try.
And while your little reasoning for your care about Ukraine since you are from Romania, go there alot, have family and friends there etc... has some validity, its negated by the fact that Romania is a member of the EU and NATO, so its completely safe from Russia.
Everybody with some common sense know that Russia simply will never attack a NATO country because it would get completely wiped out in a week and have no military left, any other reasoning and logic simply does not exist here, it is simply IMPOSSIBLE to ever happen, no matter how some people here try to paint it.
This is the only part where I agree with you. Europe should look for its own interests, and make sure Russia is crushed, so it can no longer pose a threat to Europe. Right now, Europe needs to push for more military spending and a stronger military, to deter its enemies and to defeat Russia.
Ukraine is helping us fight Russia without sending our own men to die, so we should be very grateful to them and help them more. Those Europeans who don’t want to help Ukraine are either misinformed or are just traitors. You choose which of the two categories you belong to.
Throwing labels on someone is not a very intelligent way to talk, but whatever you wish to do, I don't really care, you are just wrong period.
Russia will nevr be "crushed" or "destroyed" its just wishful thinking, Europe will need to find a way to coexist with Russia, those are just facts, anything else is delusion and ignorance.
What a great military strategy, to hope that war will never happen. And what if it happens? You want Europe to be caught with its pants down?
Wasting? So having a powerful military is wasting money? You do seem to be a traitor, since you want Europe to be weak and powerless, so that every big power can bully us. Look at the state of the world. The US is threatening with annexing Greenland from a European country, Russia is waging war against Ukraine and it is constantly threatening the Baltic states, which are part of NATO and the EU. Trump is saying that if Europe doesn’t spend more on its military, the US will not help it in case of war. And you want Europe to spend less on military?
Europe needs to get its sh*t together, and make a common EU military. It needs to boost its domestic MIC and stop relying on the US, which is an ally today, but it can become an enemy tomorrow. Look at how Trump is threatening a trade war with Europe. A trade war is basically economic war. You can’t rely for your defence on a country that is willing to wage economic war on you. It is insanity.
Russia will never attack NATO as stated before, they are not completely insane and they realize they would be completely wiped out.
And Europe having a decent military is not bad, I never said its bad, Europe already has a very strong military now, those are facts. But it is lacking in some areas thats true, should it improve them? Improve their military? Get stronger and more powerful? Sure... it makes sense, but throwing out 5% of GDP is just insane and absolutely st*pid in so many levels. You do realize that only a portion of the GDP is actually used and available for things like infastructure, medicine etc etc... so that 5% figure is actually more like 20-30% in terms of budget. its completely insane, Europe has many other priorities at the moment to improve to make it better for the people. 2.5-3% would be MORE THAN ENOUGH to ensure a very powerful military.
And Trump is insane, and will be out of the white house soon enough, he is absolutely crazy on every level and once he is gone things will be back to normal, the US was always a strong ally of Europe and we have ties that are impossible to sever.
You continue to regurgitate Putin’s propaganda insinuating that what keeps the war going is Europe and the US helping Ukraine, and that it would somehow be peace if the West just stopped helping. There is only one way to achieve peace, and that is to defeat Russia. As long as Russia can gain ground, it will continue the war. If we stop helping Ukraine, Russia will continue the war and won’t accept any peace proposal. They would continue to steal territory, and they will NEVER stop unless defeated on the battlefield.
If they conquer the entire of Ukraine, they will just open another front elsewhere, maybe in Kazakhstan, or maybe in the Baltics or Moldova. They are a dying empire with a war economy that cannot return to a normal peacetime economy. They have to fight until they lose. So the sooner they lose, the sooner we will have peace. Delaying help for Ukraine only prolongs the war.
This is just delusion upon delusion upon delusion, every war is ended by peace talks and peace terms and this one will be too, the sooner it happens the better, time to sit down and get a peace done, now, sacrifices will have to be made but thats life, but the war needs to end.
