Driving through rural Switzerland. Cows, church steeples, the whole postcard. Then a billboard: "No to war. Yes to neutrality."
For a second I wasn't in Switzerland. I was in Georgia.
Same slogan. In Georgia "No to war" is on the lips of every pro-Russian politician and every government official, while the war Russia started sits 40 km from the capital. Same simulated war-news videos, same "they want to drag us into war," same voice telling you the only danger is your own government.
Let me spell it out: nobody is dragging Switzerland into a war. No one is invading Switzerland. No one asked Switzerland to send troops. The only "war" this billboard is against is the sanctions on the guy who actually started one.
That's the trick. It's not a neutrality campaign. It's a Kremlin script with a Swiss cross on it: "war" means "helping the victim," "neutrality" means "helping the aggressor," and "peace" means "shut up and buy Russian gas."
I watched this exact script eat Georgia. Now I see it in Germany, France, Switzerland. The KGB doesn't need tanks to win in the free world. It needs a billboard and a voter who thinks the aggressor is somewhere else.
Russia is not coming to Switzerland. Russia is already here. It's on the roadside.
Leseempfehlung, über die russische Propaganda in der Schweiz, mit Fokus auf die offiziellen Kanäle, Uni St. Gallen, Ulrich Schmid.
https://t.co/5nnC18MXz1
Wer die Neutralität als Schutzschild sieht, hat aus Konflikten nichts gelernt.
SVP-Neutralitätsinitiative: Die Folgen eines Ja für die Sicherheit des Landes wären fatal.
https://t.co/f3Jh8jrrke
Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”
If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.
He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.
France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.
Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.
Honestly? Understandable.
Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Austria and Switzerland don’t get enough hate for not sending any military aid to Ukraine.
Neutrality in the face of aggression always favors the aggressor.
These beautiful countries receive far too little criticism for their traitorous, pro-Russian, and anti-European behavior
Kleiner Tipp für alle, die bei der Halbierungsinitiative JA stimmen wollen: Deine Stimme zählt doppelt, wenn Du auf dem Abstimmungszettel direkt hinschreibst, welche Sendung der SRG Du blöd findest.
Unten ist eine Übersicht der Kriegsmaterialexporte der Schweiz an Nazi-Deutschland während des Zweiten Krieges zu sehen. Weitere Lieferungen erfolgten auch vor dem Krieg, als die Nazis massiv aufrüsteten.
Besonders brisant:
1943–1944 lieferte die Schweiz ca. 50 % aller Zünder für die deutsche 8,8-cm-Flakgranate.
Oerlikon-Bührle lieferte 1944 noch 20-mm-Kanonen, obwohl die Alliierten bereits protestierten.
Die Schweiz soll gemäss Ansicht einiger Historiker durch Kriegsmateriallieferungen den Zweiten Weltkrieg um Monate verlängert haben.
Diejenigen, die hier neutralitätspolitische Bedenken äussern, sind wohl der Ansicht, dass die Schweiz während des Krieges nicht neutral gewesen sei...
Kriegsmaterialexporte der heutigen Schweiz ist für die eigene Landesverteidigung notwendig. Man sollte mit den Linken keine unheilige Allianzen bilden und der Wehrkraft der Eidgenossenschaft schaden.
Zölle von 39% für die Schweiz auf Exporte in die USA. Warum?
Weil wir wettbewerbsfähig, klein und wenig Gewicht haben. Kein verhandeln 10 Jahre lang, keine Rücksicht.
Willkommen in der schönen neuen Welt, in der der Stärkere einfach bestimmt.
Aber ja, die EU ist böse.
„Am Ende kamen die gravierendsten Fake-News nicht aus Telegram oder von der AfD, sondern aus einigen der „großen“ Medien. Sie kamen aus dem Axel-Springer-Verlag.“
Diese 5 einst seriösen Medien verbreiten jetzt Desinformation - Volksverpetzer https://t.co/eu1YGU05SP
IS X CROOKED? French prosecutors have launched a probe into whether X is manipulating its algorithms. Prosecutors say, “...an informational bias, extreme on the X platform, was being used to serve Elon Musk’s political opinions....” Ya THINK?!
Despite views in the millions, Indications & Warnings has seen almost ZERO viewer growth for 18 months... coincidence?
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Help us fight the bias. RT, Like and follow Indications & Warnings and other accounts bringing you TRUTH form Ukraine’s battlefields.
Diese Version der ukrainischen Nationalhymne ist viel zu gut, um sie nicht zu teilen.
Habt ihr auch noch welche?
Wäre schön, wenn daraus eine kleine Sammlung wird.
Wer das auch so sieht, dranhängen und teilen.
@davidnauer@Ch_Franzen Es wirkt für mich, als würden sie ohne Zögern ihre Seele dem Teufel verkaufen, nur um einem Traum nachzujagen, der sich letztlich garantiert als Alptraum entpuppen wird.
@davidnauer@Ch_Franzen Ein wirklich sehr gut gemachter Film! Erschreckend ist, wie sie vom Wunsch, ihr Ziel zu erreichen, besessen sind. Sie sind anscheinend sogar bereit, die Schweiz – ihre Heimat, in der es ihnen zweifellos gut geht – zu diffamieren, ja regelrecht zu verraten.
The BRICS do not represent “half of the world’s population” because in dictatorships and authoritarian systems people’s interests are not represented in the governments.
15) We lack the politicians, leaders, communicators, and societal resolve bold enough to tackle this challenge and defend the democratic world.
16) Subtle and covert influence is something we almost completely fail to detect!
Hey guys,
@MartinFussen from https://t.co/m9uBDJEuw6 in Switzerland 🇨🇭 is helping Ukraine 🇺🇦 with humanitarian aid since the beginning of the full scale war. He has transferred goods for ~ CHF 1.5 Mio to Ukrainians in need. He supported all our @sumlenny@EuroResilience fundraising campaigns. Now he started a „winter fundraiser“ and if you are able to help with a donation, please support it. All details can be found on the website.
Argentine President Javier Milei criticized the UN for being powerless in preventing conflicts, particularly due to the veto power of permanent Security Council members, which he said is used to protect their own interests. He condemned the organization's inability to resolve global conflicts, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.