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1. 

   @notihing

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   Swiss are smart

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   @user-uv1qp3sd2x

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   Thanks TLDR. Excellent video like others. God save the King 🇬🇧

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3. 

   @user-uv1qp3sd2x

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   I hope that Swiss can send guns and join with NATO.🌏🌎🌍🇨🇭🇺🇦

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4. 

   @dariosteiner6454

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   I fear this will not be read four months after the video release by the people responsible for the research done for this video, but I'll say it anyways.

   At 3:39, you show a clip of Alain Berset talking at the WEF 2023 and quote "the Swiss president at Davos last year" (meaning WEF 2022). In 2022, Ignazio Cassis was the president of Switzerland and he was also the one to say "Democracy must be stronger than tyranny, …".
   I only noticed this because I had already watched an earlier video of yours ("Putin's Forcing Switzerland to Take a Side – TLDR News", at 7:19) rightfully attributing this exact quote to Cassis.
   While I don't know how and where from you collect such quotes and source material and thus can't comment on whether it was an easy mistake to make, this really isn't an example of great journalism.

   Also, I haven't once in my life – all of which i spent in Switzerland – seen and I couldn't find any online publication besides stock image websites claiming that there even is such a thing as a symbol for the Swiss franc as the one presented at 2:46. Internationally, the official abbreviation for "Swiss francs" is "CHF". In Switzerland, you may also find "Fr.".

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5. 

   @robertezergailis

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   There is discussion again about Swiss neutrality. We have to question why Switzerland, as a self identified "neutral" country is manufacturing arms for other countries. There is something terribly mixed up and wrong in that. How can you be neutral and be an arms supplier ? An arms supplier to anyone ? It does not make any rational or logical sense. Switzerland, as an arms and munitions manufacturer, cannot claim neutrality at all. It is simply impossible. Weapons and munitions get used in war. That is what they are made for. The mere fact of selling such things to any others means that those things can be used against any possible enemy of whom you sell the weapons to. That isn't neutrality. Not at all. Unless you are selling weapons and munitions that cannot ever be used and what is the point in that ? It shows that Switzerland is a bit crazy in its thinking. A bit out of touch with reality and self contradictory in the same measure. Switzerland needs to sort itself out and realize that manufacturing and selling arms to others is NOT neutrality no matter whom you sell them to.

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6. 

   @chh6741

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   Swiss leadership can’t do anything it likes as they are bound by referendums. European leadership can do anything they like since referendums don’t exist there. If referendums were allowed in the EU , most European countries would probably share the Swiss position.
   And in general Switzerland has nothing really to learn from the EU as it’s generally better managed then the EU.

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7. 

   @mattias5157

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   Sweden´s shift should have been mentioned in the video too, for perspective.

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8. 

   @mattias5157

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” JF Kennedy (falsely) quoting Dante.

   Switzerland is not even threatened by Russia like Finland, Sweden, the Baltic states, Polonia and Romania are. I think it´s insistance on being neutral is just downright shameful.

   The Swiss banks hade no problems in making huge gains from protecting tyrants and colonizers money. Switzerland is a parasite on Western economy.

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9. 

   @androgynousblob4835

   February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

   Neutrality is not blindness. A neutral party allowing a country to commit crimes is not neutrality, it is siding with the criminal.

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10. 

    @whitetiana3022

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    as a swiss i can safely say NO!
    you have to understand, the word neutral is to the swiss what the word freedom is to the US: it doesn't need to be true in order for it to be part of their identity.
    they will stay neutral no matter what even if they have to redefine what neutral means.

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11. 

    @Kuwandi

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Our Group has totaly stopped Swiss Products

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12. 

    @Kuwandi

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Switzerland is DOUBLE FACED ; Only Money matters to them NOT MORALITY . Plus It’s more convenient to pretend to be Neutral while haurding secret oligarch money. Zwitserland needs to stop Cherry-picking only what suits their interests.

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13. 

    @Satoshi.gmxorg

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    No they won't period

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14. 

    @malindafrank.028

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    🤔 ALL OF PUTIN MEN THAT WENT TO 🇺🇦 FOR PUTIN WAR GOT KILLED PUTIN MEN JUST GO 🏡 TO YOUR 👪 DON'T GET KILLED FOR PUTIN WAR 🇺🇦💪

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15. 

    @Draktand01

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    As a Swede (not Swiss), I have to point out just how central our neutrality used to be to our collective national identity.

    Had ig not been for Russia being a threat to us directly, we’d have kept our neutrality, just out of national pride if nothing else.

    Switzerland, a country that Russia can’t easily invade, just doesn’t have enough insentive yet to ditch such a culturally important ideal.

    Not to mention Russia’s lack of insentive to nuke Switzerland during a nuclear exchange.

    Even if it is insenstive, even if it is morally incorrect, the fact is that ending neutrality is a slow process which you have to ease your population into.

    Sweden and Finland didn’t end neutrality over night, we ended it slowly by integrating into various western institutions, and by having the Russians literally send submarines into Stockholm.

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16. 

    @mikebovigny86

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    neutrality is not to support the side that the USA designates as the good one, neutrality is to support both sides in the same way or not to support at all… think about it

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    @mikebovigny86

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Can you explain to us, the Swiss, why we should give up 200 years of neutrality to arm a corrupt regime, fighting a war 5000km away from us?

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18. 

    @vortexgen1

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Air defense weapons should not be breaking any neutrality definitions. I can understand the Swiss not wanting to supply ammo for tanks. It sounds like the Swiss are playing fast and loose with the neutrality definition. The Swiss are for a strong military defense of their country and people, which everyone has the right to do, but is willing to scrap some old air defense weapons that a nation that was neutral and was invaded unprovoked by Russia, could use. We all know that Ukraine was not a threat to anyone. After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine gave up its nuclear stock pile. Ukraine knows as much as anyone about nuclear fallout being, it has Chernobyl located within its borders.

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    @TheBiggreenpig

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    I can understand its refusal of handing over tanks, but air defense ammo? Come on. We all know that air defense is needed to protect civilians.

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20. 

    @Metratch

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    You don't ask bankers to get involved with wars.

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21. 

    @jeanschaeffer4225

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    COMMENTATOR…. RUBBISH,,,,,,,,

    WELL
    THE SWISS,,,,,,HAVE ,,,,,3 ,,4 CANONS
    HALF A PLANES,,,,
    ,,,
    2. TANKS,,,,,
    ,, THEY ARE ,,VERY STRONG,,,,,,,

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22. 

    @ems4884

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    The question for Switzerland is what best serves their interests. They are at no risk of being attacked. But, Switzerland needs Europe intact and ecnomically healthy – a Europe that continues to share their fundamental values. If Europe is destabalized, the Swiss will feel the pain. If Russia invades more territory, problems come that little bit nearer the Swiss borders once again.

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23. 

    @floatingblaze8405

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    I live in the EU, closer to the eastern border than I'd be comfortable with if the war were to be escalated with NATO involvement, and I fully understand and support Swiss neutrality… Afterall, I'd be in the first batch of 10000 people crossing the Swiss border if something really were to happen.

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24. 

    @GVAlexandrov

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    So much propaganda in such a short video! 😅 How many times did you say "Putin's war"? 3 times? 4 times? I guess somebody is paying a lot for this exact phrase to be used across Europe. And you are advertising an app for a "transparent" media? Who is funding this app? 😂😊

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25. 

    @Ganjor420

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Well it’s Switzerlands choice… but other European countries should remember this and stop exporting their weapons to the Swiss, just in case they might need them to defend themselves/friends in the future… let’s the Swiss build their own weapons if they don’t wanna share!

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26. 

    @gamer42go21

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Swiss neutrality. We’re not going to be pressured

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27. 

    @annalord1002

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    After the war it will be high time to bankrupt Zwiss banks.

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28. 

    @annalord1002

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Zwiss banks are NOT neutral. Zwitzterland is the most corrupt country in Europe. Of all oligarch money in Zwiss banks, less than 10% is sanctioned.

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29. 

    @jungleboi6544

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    They send chocolate to Ukraine

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30. 

    @absak

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Shorts answer:

    Absolutely fucking not

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31. 

    @bettyswallocks6411

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    The official Swiss position is that they won’t supply Ukraine with offensive munitions. However, the Flakpanzer Gepard is an anti-aircraft system, from top-to-bottom. It could be used offensively, but given the small number of Gepards that Ukraine has, they would be foolish to not keep them for anti-drone and aircraft purposes. The Gepard is therefore arguably a purely defensive weapon and the Swiss should, by their own rules, be able to supply.

    I guess all of those billions in oligarchs’ (and Putin’s) Swiss bank accounts are more important to the Swiss, which surprises nobody.

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32. 

    @carlosfurtado1164

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Swiss army knives

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33. 

    @ce1834

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    From a Swiss point of view and its neutrality, actively signing off arms to be used in a war would be a dumb

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34. 

    @jondoe1622

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    No. There are simply too many fiscal paradises for RU oligarchs… 😂

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35. 

    @dragos_serghie

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Switzerland is the most badass country in Europe. No joke!

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36. 

    @Hgkd2

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    I find it idiotic how Swiss self determination is shit on for not taking part in the arms export 😅
    When the justification for sending things is a country's right to do as they like 😮

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37. 

    @Maplelust

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    you could have just said no. this is a video that amounts to nothing.

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    @AS-np3yq

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    The Swiss people need to vote on this. Thats the point.

    It is a direct democracy.

    Sone years ago they voted for not allowing arms producer to profit from wars.

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    @polasragge1844

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Just a small hint as a swiss:
    The Logo of the FDP party is the wrong one. There are two party and the larger one, thats also in the swiss Parlament, had a logo with Blue FDP letterd, a line under them and then either german „die liberalen“ or the same phrase in french/italian

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40. 

    @martijnknol8690

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Hi, I have been watching your videos for a while, and love them! However, I have the same light as you have in the shelf on the background, and it is not properly put down. Your light is at a slight angle, since you did not route the cable to the slot cut out (the slot that is cut out for routing the cable is visible on camera, right next to the silver play button). It would be very nice/funny to see you fix it, after having it like this for the past months ;P. Keep up the good content!

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41. 

    @Big.Bad.Wolfie

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Switzerland works only with nazi (german nazi, russsian nazi so on). Everithing for money.

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42. 

    @nirutivan9811

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    I‘m Swiss and I really don‘t get our law against reselling Swiss arms… I mean we sold them already, they aren‘t ours anymore. Why do we still need a say in what is done with them?
    But at least it could lead to one good thing (in my opinion): It could lead to an end of the Swiss arms export. Cause in my opinion the arms export doesn‘t fit Switzerlands neutrality policy and this policy would be much more believable without it.

    And it won‘t happen, but in my opinion there should not be neutrality, if there is a clear aggressor who attacked a country against international law. Cause in such a situation the neutrality benefits the aggressor more than the attacked country (and that‘s not neutral either).

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43. 

    @garethbrown9191

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    You nailed it on the head at the end "If Switzerland enters the war", that's not neutrality. The EU doesn't control Switzerland and isn't part of NATO. Stop trying to bully them.

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    @michaelmazowiecki9195

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    Switzerland is only paying lip service to the sanctions against Russia. It continues laundering dirty Russian money and denies others from transfering weapons to Ukraine against Russian aggression

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45. 

    @dylandavis3518

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    🇨🇭 + Bloodmoney = True!!

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46. 

    @raycharles1752

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    long answer: no

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47. 

    @jonybe5854

    February 19, 2024 at 6:37 am

    They are afraid of PutinaZi

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