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    Die Schweiz stoppt Waffenexporte in die USA aufgrund des Iran-Krieges unter Berufung auf die Neutralität


    Die Schweiz stoppt Waffenexporte in die USA aufgrund des Iran-Krieges unter Berufung auf die Neutralität

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/switzerland-halts-weapons-exports-us-due-iran-war-citing-neutrality-2026-03-20/

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    1. Playwithuh on

      „March 20 (Reuters) – Switzerland on Friday said it would not issue licences for ​companies to export weapons to the United ‌States due to the ongoing attacks on Iran, citing the country’s neutrality.

      „The export of war materiel to countries involved in ​the international armed conflict with Iran cannot be ​authorised for the duration of the conflict,“ ⁠the government said in a statement.“

    2. AthenianVulcan on

      If neutrality is to be maintained, Switzerland should not be manufacturing any weaponry at all. All weapons exported will break Switzerland neutrality.

      Edit: Above is the Original^

      In my haste, made slight mistake in my second line (added bold 2 words for FOR EXPORT), what I meant to say is

      If neutrality is to be maintained, Switzerland should not be manufacturing any weaponry at all **FOR EXPORT**. All weapons exported will break Switzerland neutrality.

    4. Chraum on

      Switzerland cutting arms exports to the us matters less for raw volume than for the precedent: once a formally neutral state starts treating Washington as an active belligerent under its neutrality law, the war stops looking like a regional strike campaign and starts creating real political and supply-chain costs for America’s partners too.

    5. Upstairs-Inspection3 on

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_world_wars#Financial_relationships_with_Nazi_Germany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_world_wars#Financial_relationships_with_Nazi_Germany)

      >Between 1940 and 1945, the German [Reichsbank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbank) sold 1.3 billion francs (approximately 18 billion francs adjusted for inflation to 2019) worth of gold to Swiss banks in exchange for Swiss francs and other foreign currency, which were used to buy strategically important raw materials like [tungsten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten) and oil from neutral countries.[^([37])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_world_wars#cite_note-ICE_107-37) Hundreds of millions of francs‘ worth of this gold was [monetary gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard) plundered from the [central banks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank) of occupied countries. A total of 581,000 francs‘ worth of „Melmer“ gold taken from [Holocaust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust) victims in eastern Europe was sold to Swiss banks.[^([37])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_world_wars#cite_note-ICE_107-37)

      history repeats itself, switzerland has always been complicit with the enemy

    6. buck70 on

      The Swiss position has nothing to do with whether the customer started a conflict or not, since they did the same thing to Ukraine after they were attacked. Which leads one to ask: why would anyone purchase Swiss armaments in the first place?

    8. marmot9070 on

      Is hiding the money of dictators or criminals essential for maintaining a country’s neutrality?

    9. RLewis8888 on

      What did they think the US was going to use those weapons for? Maybe use them against themselves (which is seeming more and more like a possibility).

    11. ExecutivePhoenix on

      The U.S. isn’t using Swiss weapons in combat though? All Swiss imports are being used for civilians, collectors etc… nothing associated with the military?

    12. mist_kaefer on

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

      All I know is my gut says “maybe.”

    14. slingbladde on

      Carns was there..told them we got the ammunition covered for the military complex..just stay neutral..just like..where all the..located

    15. omnigear on

      USA shot itself in the foot. Part of why we have do many allies is our perceived capabilities to defend and protect them. But this incompetent administration has shown we cant protect sht.

      When ukrain started i mentioned how war had changed and like Russia , USA would lose any gorilla war where cheap as drones are involved

    16. plan_with_stan on

      Wait, so in peacetimes they can be neutral but when the weapons they supply are being used, they go “NO! We didn’t give you those to blow up shit!”?

    17. 3DprintRC on

      They export weapons of war and then when the countries go to war they go: „No. Not like that!“

    18. PlumpHughJazz on

      > Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

      ~ George Orwell

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