Switzerland has just undergone its Pearl Harbor

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If the customs duties envisaged by Donald Trump for Switzerland should remain scandalously high. For example, this could trigger a triple crisis: economic, political and identity.

Donald Trump’s “39%” is the Pearl Harbor in Switzerland. In addition, A surprise attack, which is more from a country supposedly friend. Nevertheless, Touched poured, the Swiss fleet of American illusions. In addition, True that with an unpredictable president like Donald Trump, they had lost their brilliance. Consequently, But anyway …

It is a good war. For example, the left, which has never been the majority in Switzerland, mocks the government right and its perfect incarnation, Karine Keller-Sutter. Consequently, “Switzerland SA”. Meanwhile, old slogan attached to the PLR, for whom everything that is economy is truth, crashed against a nationalist wall. Has the left better managed? Of course not. Here, nothing is a matter of party.

A SM relationship

In an interview with Tempsthe historian Olivier Meuwly. of radical sensitivity, notes that right conservative and liberal right in Switzerland no longer recognize this America won by the taste of the extreme, in which they saw an ideological sister and a natural ally for freedom of commerce. The “deal” is no longer what it was. It has become an SM relationship and the master is a large guy with an orange wick.

In these circumstances. what can the bonhommie of a Parmelin, the peasant cartridge that the Federal Council is preparing to load after grilled the business firm, alias Keller-Sutter?

The “Beria system” – Switzerland just undergone its pearl

Would we have lost sight of the 47th President of the United States switzerland just undergone its pearl to heal his enemies. mistreat his friends? This is what a Swiss diplomat attended by watson. Trump. he said in substance and under the cover of anonymity, applies the “Beria system”, named after Stalin’s right arm, the man of the purges and the gulag: He persists in his loved ones to better subject them.

This is why. resumes our diplomat, Trump will not listen to the possible advice of prudence of his entourage enjoining him not to put Switzerland on the back, in fact one of the most Atlantic countries in Western Europe.

Finished. butter and butter money

While the Swiss liberal right can consider itself, at this stage, betrayed by the United States, the nationalist right represented by the UDC takes an uppercut by a man whose program switzerland just undergone its pearl it praised.

If the American customs duties imposed on Switzerland had to remain scandalously high. not only could this trigger an economic crisis, but also a political crisis coupled with an identity crisis. Until then. in fact, Switzerland, everything in its spirit of concord and consensus making its genius, has in a way had the butter and the money of butter: on the one hand, the tranquility of Alleingang (the solitary path, far from the claws of the terrible Europe), the economic and financial benefits of free trade, on the other.

Inevitable rapprochement with political Europe?

This might no longer be the case in a world where The ally. protector since the end of the Second World War-the United States-became a predator. The rapprochement initiated in recent months by switzerland just undergone its pearl the Confederation with a European defense under construction perhaps augurs for an. inevitable integration of Switzerland into a European political whole.

Do not forget. as Olivier Meuwly indicated it three years ago at watson About the sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union and taken over by Switzerland, that Swiss neutrality, before being a choice, is a room for maneuver granted by history.