>be switzerland>avoids fighting in ww2 despite being surrounded by Germany and Italy>refuses to join NATO>refuses to join EUHow do they keep getting away with it?
>>53416682099% mountain with no natural resources worth trying to invade them for.
Careful diplomacy.
>>534167133Shooting down american aircraft.
>>534166820its where all the jews stash their cash. it can do whatever the fuck it wants
>>534166891From the military takeover viewpoint, can you guess what is the single most valuable resource in Switzerland?
>>534166820 >How do they keep getting away with it? By secretly (and openly) collaborating. It would be time to pay more attention to real historical facts such as the economic agreement of August 9, 1940 in historical reviews of WWII, even if the dominant, nationalistic tales were to take a back seat. The fact that Switzerland successfully survived WWII was neither due to the political resistance of the people nor to the military retreat into the alps - the decisive factor was a large economic cooperation with Nazi Germany initiated with the treaty of August 9, 1940. On that day, Switzerland signed an important trade treaty with Nazi Germany in Berlin. This treaty was a fundamental act that determined the existence of Switzerland. It opened the way for economic cooperation, although fraught with conflict, which both parties considered necessary. As long as this worked, military action by Nazi Germany against Switzerland was not possible. This treaty was essentially about docking the industry and financial power of Switzerland to the German war economy. The central point of the agreement was a loan granted by Switzerland, which Germany used in particular for the purchase of war material. For its part, Switzerland saw in this trade a means of creating jobs and securing essential imported goods, because the country was never even remotely self-sufficient economically (that's simply a myth) and was therefore dependent on imports. Without this agreement, neither the much-vaunted "Anbauschlacht" (plan to avert a food shortage in the face of a looming Axis embargo) nor the "Réduit" (alpine fortresses) could have been realised. Germany urgently needed foreign exchange and a secure and exclusive cooperation with Swiss industry, as well as free access to the Alpine routes. Switzerland was also to break off trade with countries at war with Germany. However, Berlin waived a de jure obligation, since Bern was willing to de facto prevent corresponding exports.
>>534167217 A large majority of representatives from business and politics supported these trade relations, which were geared towards Germany. In a way, it was the only political project that gained broad support during this difficult time. In fact, economic cooperation with Germany and the countries dependent on it has not only secured Switzerland's existence, but also the country's economic power. It allowed Switzerland to successfully enter the post-war period. These economic relations were understandably a thorn in the side of the Allies. Towards the end of the war they forced the Federal Council to restrict the movement of goods. However, Bern insisted on maintaining economic relations with Germany. The law of November 8, 1934, which establishes banking secrecy, effectively protects these mountains of gold, foreign exchange and securities from the prying eyes of foreign tax authorities, the plundered states - and sometimes also the legal successors of the creditors. Example: Hundreds of millions of dollars and assets of all kinds have been deposited in Swiss banks since 1933 by Jewish communities, trading companies and families from all over Europe. Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. Around 7,000 survivors (or legal heirs) demanded that their assets be handed over after the war. Until 1990 only 96 of them received satisfaction (if one can put it that way): the country gave them 9.5 million Swiss francs. The remaining astronomical sums, which according to the law are classified as "without known creditors". By the way this has changed, there was a huge deal with Israel in the later 90s where the Swiss banks paid some sort of "reparations". It was the US that forced Switzerland to pay. On May 7, 1997, a report on the gold trade between the neutral states and Nazi Germany is published. The report shows that the Swiss National Bank took over vast amounts of Nazi looted gold from occupied countries.
>>534167290 Partly also sacrificial gold: melted gold teeth and jewelry of the victims from the concentration camps. With gold purchases and clearing credits, Switzerland helped to prolong the war considerably. During WWII, the German Reich was cut off from the western financial markets. Zurich's major banks exchanged the gold stolen by the Nazis from all over Europe (artworks, securities, etc.) for the foreign currency needed by the German war economy - dollars, pounds sterling, Swiss francs. The Swiss deliveries of arms (AA cannons, small arms) to the Third Reich, for example those from the Oerlikon-Bührle company - last delivery: April 1945 - were of vital importance to the Germans. According to the American trust company McKinsey, the total amount of private assets managed by Swiss banks and financial institutions currently amounts to 200 billion Swiss francs. That wealth has grown 20 percent over the 1980s, half from reinvested earnings and half from the influx of new capital. According to the McKinsey study, 40 to 45 percent of the funds came from Europe, around 25 percent from Switzerland itself, 15 percent from Latin America and 10 percent from other regions of the world. In 1990, with their global network and their investment opportunities on the international scene, the five largest banks in Switzerland were of almost dizzying proportions. In 1988 it was 483 billion Swiss francs. Their ability to intervene in the world markets and their ability to compete with other international financial empires are primarily based on the extent of their own funds. Where do such funds come from? These streams of money fertilizing the lands of the country carry with them three kinds of money: clean money, derived from normal, lawful transactions; gray money, withheld from the tax authorities by the elites of France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, etc., or embezzled by Third World rulers, and finally the black or dirty money, which by far predominates.
>>534167316 Billions of dollars, the spoils of the international drug and arms trafficking networks and other criminal activities, were smuggled in, hidden, laundered and reinvested by the Swiss every year. In December 1997, UBS, the second largest bank in the world, was founded. The US Banking Commission under Alfonse D'Amato had to grant UBS access to the existential American market. The new UBS bosses knew that without access to the US market, the bank will lose billions in profits every year. Half a year later Senator D'Amato announced the settlement. The major Swiss banks were paying holocaust survivors $1.25 billion in compensation. In 2020 Switzerland has signed a trilateral agreement with Peru and Luxembourg on the restitution of illegally acquired assets. The assets come from acts of corruption in Peru. Cooperation with the Peruvian authorities enabled the recovery of around $16.3 million in Switzerland and around 9.7 million euro in Luxembourg. The three states have joined forces to find a restitution solution in line with international standards. The repatriated assets from Switzerland and Luxembourg (around $26 million in total) will go into projects to strengthen Peru's courts, law enforcement and judicial authorities. In concrete terms, the digitization, the standardization and harmonization of processes, the training and further education of personnel as well as the acceleration of the implementation of the new Peruvian code of criminal procedure are promoted.
>>534167357 But even today, there are practices in this country that are highly questionable to say the least. In 2022, journalists publishing leaked data of the Credit Suisse bank. The massive leak from one of the world's biggest private banks has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes. Details of accounts linked to 30,000 CS clients all over the world are contained in a list, which unmasks the beneficiaries of more than 100bn Swiss francs held in one of Switzerland's best-known financial institutions. But fear of criminal sanctions prevented Swiss media from participating in the "Suisse Secrets" investigation and raised questions over freedom of speech in Switzerland. Since 2015, Swiss journalists risk a conviction if they write about stolen bank data. This is why the Swiss media had to give up investigating Credit Suisse clients. A spate of data leaks to Germany and other countries saw banking laws extended in 2015 to make it an offence for anyone to make use of such stolen information, including journalists. This placed Swiss media in an awkward situation when a whistleblower offered details of CS clients, including dictators and criminals. While media from a variety of other countries sifted through the evidence, Swiss journalists decided that the potential cost was prohibitively high.
>>534167316>Partly also sacrificial gold: melted gold teeth and jewelry of the victims from the concentration camps.Glad I saw that fist and saved myself from having to read whatever other nonsense you have written.
>>534167217>>534167290>>534167316>>534167357>>534167405Jesus Christ dude, nobody is going to read your wall of text.
>>534166820They virtually threw their based neutrality away over Ukraine. Pathetic.
>>534167509Oh wow I didn't expect a jeet paid in rubles to shill for russia to join this thread.
>>534166820Jew gold being used for bribes. The elite has money deposits being held as ransom.
>>534166820>How do they keep getting away with it?By being based.
>>534167831You don't want to mess with this.
>>534167470I actually read it all just now lol
>>534167932got the next model down
>>534167470I read it too.
