Bundeswehr No Longer Procuring Swiss Arms Due to 'Neutrality' in Ukraine War
Bundeswehr No Longer Procuring Swiss Arms Due to 'Neutrality' in Ukraine War
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Deutschland will keine Rüstungsgüter mehr aus der Schweiz
Title (auto translated):
Germany no longer wants armament from Switzerland
A letter from Germany makes a big wave. Swiss companies are excluded from applying for procurement by the Bundeswehr.
The Swiss shouldn’t be surprised by this. They killed much of their export business by showing how many strings they keep attached to the sales.
"Here are some weapons of war. Though if you get into a war we won't sell you ammunition lmao"
that's not really what hapoened, they boight those weapons knowing the conditions that were attached to it. The swiss political context is complex, it's not a matter of one side vs the other but of consensus between a lot of actors defending various interests. This is why in this case the swiss left has been trying for years to stop swiss exports of weapons of war, while the right and far-right pushed for it.