a must see video for all Swiss. As a Swiss person, I am deeply unhappy about the move away from neutrality. Lets face it, Switzerland is too far from Russia to be ever invaded. We are more likely to be bullied by the EU and indeed, have been for decades. The push ever closer towards NATO, which is basically a business development and sales function for the western defense industrial complex and a political sword for the neocon politicians in the EU and USA, strips Switzerland of its own democratic decision making process. Might as well close down the UN agencies in Geneva!
I wondered when Switzerland began to move towards NATO. I remember a discussion with a Swiss friend in 2020, in Saignelegier, where he stated that the Swiss never fight, and they always remain neutral. I was so impressed. But not today. It is sad to see Switzerland move closer to NATO. Very sad.
swiss defense minister said in a interview earlier this year that in the event of war with NATO/ russia, that Switzerland would take the side of NATO and that they are already fully interoperable as they designed their military tech to seamlessly operate with NATO. the swiss are under no illusions that russia would just "go around" switzerland and we wouldnt be impacted here.
That Sweden, my homeland, became a member of a war alliance without us having a referendum is unforgivable and will be expensive for future generations both financially and in life.
@@Laelin123He talks about Sweden. Nobody in Sweden would confuse Sweden with Switzerland. Probably nobody in Europe. But Americans do all the time. But perhaps you refer to the joke where somebody was holding up a sign at a sports event, saying "Sweden is not Switzerland" (or the other way around). That was really funny.
very good talk. As somebody who grew up in Switzerland (and so was also doing service in the Swiss army), I completely agree with Ralph Bosshard. I'm also very concerned how Switzerland started to have closer and closer relations to NATO rather than staying neutral. A truly neutral country could have had a key role in any peace processes. Now all they could do was organize a ridiculous Buergenstock meeting which did not accomplish anything.
As a dual citizen Swiss\Australian this is all very disappointing, I was raised to believe Switzerland's neutrality was something to be proud of something that set us apart from other nations. What is happening to my country it's bad enough that Australia is a US lapdog, who will push for peace if not Switzerland.
Another Australian/Swiss dual citizen here.... totally agree with you. Most Swiss I meet, appear to be increasingly " un neutral" when discussing current geopolitics.
The US did not find a country against Russia. They engineered it leveraging on the division within Ukraine (starting with Maidan coup in 2014), as they have tried with Georgia too.
It started long before 2014. When I went to Kiev in 2011 there was already a well established western open air market where NGOs where selling colour revolution programs.
Putin made a coup attempt. The Ukrainian revoltet against it….. what Putin did was a coup against Ukraine, the Ukrainian population revoltet against it. It is a perfect definition between a coup and a revolt……. So at least get you defintions right. When you spread russian propagande
As a Swiss citizen, I am totally against any move closer to NATO. Neutrality does not allow for that, but then, our two "ministers" Cassis and Viola Amherd do not give a ..... about what the population wants and just override us. Same tactic with EU alignment, Ukraine support, Russian sanctions, arms sales, peace summit without both warring parties..... all that has shot down Swiss neutrality. And now opening a NATO bureau in "The House of Peace" in Geneva is a morbid joke!
A great and informative podcast and channel in general. Loved the use of voices rather than subtitles. As a Swede living in New Zealand, I miss European insights, not international propaganda.
I love this channel too, as a European living in USA. And I too appreciate the voice layover instead of text! You may also find the channel The Duran interesting. They are on YT and several other platforms, talk about EU, NATO, Russia. Sometimes have several guests. Alex is from Cyprus, son of a diplomat, grew up in USA, and the other man, Alexander, is from Greece, working as an attorney in London. They are both very knowledgeable. Alexander is also fluent in French and visited France during the recent elections and reported about it.
@helenblack9583. As Yvonneforsman8649 said The Duran are very good. Other channels equally good are The New Atlas by Brian Berletic, Jeffrey Sachs, Geopolitical Economy Report by Ben Norton, Garland Nixon, Rachel Blevins, Dialogue Works, The Grayzone, Chaz Freeman, Scott Ritter, Vijay Prashad, etc.
I'm a Swiss living in South Africa, when I was listening to a speech from Pres. Putin, that Switzerland gave up Neutrality by sanctioning Russia, I got a shock.
Mr Lüthi, I felt the same way. However Russia and/or its hacker groups have been attacking attacking us for a long time. Russia has never thought of us as neutral. They just expressed it now.
NATO is not a defensive alliance. They illegally bombed Yugoslavia (direct violation of the UN Charter). We must never forget what they did to Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria etc.
@@mickvonbornemann3824 Well I have seen with my own eyes what Serbian irregular troops are capable of while supported by the regular troops. Read about genocide in Srebrenica. NATO prevented the same or worse on Kosovo there is no doubt about it.
@@jasmins203about to do? So there was no genocide xD Nothing is "well documented" just naratives xD That court is joke, as we all know and it's now under sanctions by US, because of Netianiahu xD "Well documented hahahah I cant😂😂😂
One of the best interviews I've seen in the last few years. Paranoia and militarism spreading even on historically neutral European countries... it's frightening.
Thank you, as an American, it's always good to see what others are thinking about such things outside the sphere of our media. I don't blame you for being against the Law of the Jungle rule. And agree, the object of all this seems as in 19th century, to take Russia's natural resources.
“Operation Iraqi freedom” was the saintly title for the brutal invasion of Iraq. “Operation unified protector” was the angelic name for the destruction of Libya. “Operation enduring freedom” was the virtuous name given to the unjust invasion of Afghanistan. All in the name of "freedom and democracy".
A very enriching video on how to adopt a neutrality stance. Being able to remain neutral is crucial to the survival of a nation these days. Being easily swayed by any narrative can have disastrous outcomes. Zelensky is an example.
I was in Berlin in December of 1989... The Wall was coming down and I guessed that the only people worried were the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon and that Thatcher woman...
🇫🇮❤loves peace & neutrality, and would have voted against Finland joining NATO (Notorious Armed Terrorist Organization) if we would have had a referendum.
@@angelg3986 True, but it was not her only, but most members of our government wanted NATO & the media claimed that tne majority of the people did also.
@@tarmotyyri6733 here comes the next problem - who controls your media and how much they spent to form the society's opinion. In my country, the mass media shows only the u.s. democrats party version for everything and elaborates on it as a basis. An investigating journalist found official source that 47mil. USD were dedicated by the u.s. to our media. All that for a small poor Eastern EU country Bulgaria
Not only the WEF, the WHO and BIZ also, Swiss politician are stooges of this organisations. These organisations are stings in the flesh of Switzerland.
The Russian Federation government does not consider the Switzerland government as a neutral actor once you have joined western sanctions against the people of the Russian Federation. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement about it
Until 2014, 60% of the Ukrainian population considered Russian their native language. 02/23/14 The Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv abolished the status of the Russian language in Ukraine as a regional language, declaring Ukrainian the only state language. A week later, Russian troops landed in Crimea. If you are Swiss, try to imagine if your parliament tomorrow abolishes the status of the German language and declares French the only state language.
Not one western politician has uttered the phrase "negotiated peace". During my youth, many of us campaigned through CND - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - for nuclear treaties and a ladder towards reduced nukes. And it worked for many decades. Until the USA unilaterally dropped out of two major treaties during the last 10 years. The Russians have asked the Americans 4-5 times to come back to the table without success. NATO is now talking about placing long range, possibly nuclear, missiles on Euro/Russian borders. It also openly talks about regime change and breaking apart Russia, as if Putin and the Russian people will accept such interference! The annual revenue of the top 20 defense companies (excluding Russian and Chinese) is about $400bn, roughly the GDP of Denmark. Approx. 150 countries have a lower GDP...!!! These companies can ONLY grow if there is war and conflict (I am assuming their non-war products are not as significant revenue wise). They can easily spend just 1% = a massive USD4,000mio, on paying off politicians and generating social media and mainstream news media narratives that we consume like lemmings! Of that USD400bn, not one cent will go towards the reconstruction of Ukraine or Afghanistan or Kosovo or Bosnia or Libya or Iraq or ... As a business development / sales function of these companies, the new NATO narrative, now that Ukraine has been completely destroyed, is that it is needed in the Far East and so membership is being extended to Asian countries (Japan, Korea, etc). They will sell a lot more missiles, guns, ammo, services, jets, ships, drones, radars and shields...! Given, that the Global South is de-dollarising (using local currencies instead of USD to buy oil and other products), NATO is perhaps America's easiest option to reduce it's self inflicted and mortal USD35tn in debt.
If Russia is successful in stationing missiles in Cuba, has the US a legitimate reason to invade Cuba? if yes, then Russia has similar reason to invade Ukraine who wants to join NATO that will allow the US to station missiles in Ukraine.
Perhaps you don't remember that the Azov Nazis, a group which is part of the Ukraine army, was shooting and killing Ukrainians in the east part of the country for 8 (eight) years, and the reason was that those Ukrainians in the east had Russian roots, b/c Ukraina was in the past part of the former Soviet Union. No military in Cuba are killing Americans living there, so the USA has no reason to invade Cuba to stop any killings. The Ukrainians with Russian roots asked Russia for help. After a while they did get help. And also, the ppl there held elections and voted to belong to Russia. Russia has been offering peace to Ukraine again and again. Zelensky, who used to be the president of Ukraine but whose presidency time ended May 20, 2024, accepted peace but was told by the British and Americans not to and therefore changed his mid several times. It is NATO running this war circus, not Ukraine, not Zelensky.
here is what western media fail to tell the world ...JFKennedy was not the winner , it was Russia who won , Krushchev got the US to remove their missiles from Turkey as part of the agreement if they want Russia to remove the missiles from Cuba.
Great video, thanks! Hopefully people will be properly informed when they vote on the Initiative for Neutrality. Greetings from a Swiss citizen in Scotland!
“…political elites are weak and it’s quite easy to put them under pressure…”_Ralph Bosshard. Also “NATO is under pressure..” Wow! Who really leads NATO?
This is all about building a military industrial complex in Europe. With Ursula Von der Leyen orchestrating it, she is deeply involved. With her controversial background, tax payer’s money disappearing in shady weapon affairs, she is now the leader of the European Commission and probably reelected, says it all.
USA pressure and propoganda. Look at Finland. Had no issues with the USSR and all of a sudden crap their pants over Russia in Ukraine. Grow a brain Finnish govt
Unfortunately from my analysis Suisse has lost his neutrality long time ago and as country of direct democracy is just mater of time when you going to wake up hearing on tv that you are members of NATO with out of vote like Finland and Sweden
Amazing! There is actually a country where it has sane people left in Europe? Excellent talk, excellent interview and excellent points raised Herr Bosshard.
In the west we might have seen too many warmovies and gave too mych value to "the winner" using MORE force/violance to win. Now we do not know the value of peace. We seem to fail our persons with the very poor + negligent choices we are making. To value "winning" above "peace/stabilty" has a HUGE price tag consequence, as we have now found out. Confusion/chaos now reigns but let CLARITY be our sole guide out of this self-made mess!!!
Forget it, I live more than 70 years in this so called democracy or federalism. Usrael/UK is commanding and controlling the West. They behave like a Pavlov's dog.
Roughly 5:45 onwards, Swiss officers seconded to NATO only learning 'counterinsurgency and crisis management', in contrast to other secondments with a focus on national defense (70%) in Moscow and 30% offense.
Neutrality is just a Concept. In world war II Switzerland followed the request for darkening to the disadvantage of the allies bomber pilots. If you choose to do or not to do you automatically favor one side or the other. and in consequence you get the blame for not being neutral regardless your position.
"Fifty years ago the streets of Lengingrad taught me one thing: if a fight's inevitable, you must strike first" Putin said. The politician of the West think he is bluffing.
I recall my history syllabus at high school late 1970`s on the Treaty of Versailles. The famous cartoon of the children crying on the steps outside as the leaders of France Britain and the USA drew up the terms for Germany. Who are those children and why are they crying? They are the next generation doomed to die in another war by the vindictive arrogance of the statesmen within. And of course, how we marveled at the patriotic propaganda that had stirred populations to march merrily into industrial slaughter assured by the press. Home by Christmas. People were so naive back then. Uneducated foolish naive masses led by pompous politicians & lying nationalist press barons. Tolstoy was right. Human beings never change. We are the insane once again. Only the stupid would think otherwise.
Hello Pascal, I advise you to invite Mr. Jacek Bartosiak from The Strategy & Future for a chat. He is the leading Polish geopolitical strategist and number 1 Russophobe, that brainwashes young people around University campuses and has enough influence to shape Polish geopolitics. This would be a phenomenal interview.
You couldn't be more wrong: the Swiss (except for perhaps a few brave souls) and the Swiss government play along with NATO just like they played along with the Germans during WW2. Why do you think that that recent so-called "peace summit" (where Russia was deliberately not invited) was held in Switzerland?
I only remember that time when Switzerland hosted a "peace summit" without inviting Russia. Switzerland is just another US lapdog. Meanwhile Hungary is making real efforts for peace. Greetings from Switzerland.
Who is familiar with what happened to Alexander Dorin - a very few people - know that "democracy" in Switzerland is skin deep, and underneath is fascism. He authored and published a book documenting that the Western (US/NATO) propaganda myth about "genocide" in Srebrenica is just that, and was thrown in jail for months, beaten, mistreated, under false, never substantiated accusation of participating in drug trafficking, prevented from using his house that was his main source of income etc. That was a coordinated action that had to start at a high political level, through the police apparatus, showing that Switzerland - like most of Europe - is not an independent country.
@28:30 Who appointed UN Security Council as a world tyrant who can decide on aggressions against nations or peoples? What moral right it has to this power?
Original Video in German: ua-cam.com/video/1x_xwwHjwfU/v-deo.htmlsi=AaORUPLM2Lx5bbf-
You need to cover your Russian financing and being a Russian agent a little bit better.
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No to Nato
a must see video for all Swiss. As a Swiss person, I am deeply unhappy about the move away from neutrality. Lets face it, Switzerland is too far from Russia to be ever invaded. We are more likely to be bullied by the EU and indeed, have been for decades. The push ever closer towards NATO, which is basically a business development and sales function for the western defense industrial complex and a political sword for the neocon politicians in the EU and USA, strips Switzerland of its own democratic decision making process. Might as well close down the UN agencies in Geneva!
you are a 100% right!
Better move to Africa and Asia
One result of this is that Switzerland is no longer considered middle ground for negotiations of peace treaties.
Correct. But look how few watch this video…
Not even their we are free for this evil unfortunately
I wondered when Switzerland began to move towards NATO. I remember a discussion with a Swiss friend in 2020, in Saignelegier, where he stated that the Swiss never fight, and they always remain neutral. I was so impressed. But not today. It is sad to see Switzerland move closer to NATO. Very sad.
Who actually is nato?
@@mihaliprefti2507it is a warmongering machine ran by EU and warmongerers in the u,s (neocons)
Presso from Washington . If you refuse then the country might be in political chaos and might lead to political collapse and economically disaster .
swiss defense minister said in a interview earlier this year that in the event of war with NATO/ russia, that Switzerland would take the side of NATO and that they are already fully interoperable as they designed their military tech to seamlessly operate with NATO. the swiss are under no illusions that russia would just "go around" switzerland and we wouldnt be impacted here.
That Sweden, my homeland, became a member of a war alliance without us having a referendum is unforgivable and will be expensive for future generations both financially and in life.
Let’s not confuse Sweden and Switzerland!
@@Laelin123He talks about Sweden. Nobody in Sweden would confuse Sweden with Switzerland. Probably nobody in Europe. But Americans do all the time. But perhaps you refer to the joke where somebody was holding up a sign at a sports event, saying "Sweden is not Switzerland" (or the other way around). That was really funny.
Yes, very upsetting indeed!!! A completely wrong thing to do! For Finland too!
"Expensive"? It might be fatal.
Nobody cares about fake neutrality anymore
Pascal is asking great questions on the insanity of why and how the Swiss relinquishes neutrality.
Technically they revoked neutrality when they started harboring the WHO and hosting all these big wigs in Davos ...like the WEF.....ect ect....😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this interview which strongly reflects the way I feel about Switzerland joining NATO as a Swiss citizen.
very good talk. As somebody who grew up in Switzerland (and so was also doing service in the Swiss army), I completely agree with Ralph Bosshard. I'm also very concerned how Switzerland started to have closer and closer relations to NATO rather than staying neutral. A truly neutral country could have had a key role in any peace processes. Now all they could do was organize a ridiculous Buergenstock meeting which did not accomplish anything.
As a dual citizen Swiss\Australian this is all very disappointing, I was raised to believe Switzerland's neutrality was something to be proud of something that set us apart from other nations. What is happening to my country it's bad enough that Australia is a US lapdog, who will push for peace if not Switzerland.
Same here, as a dual Swiss Canadian. Canada is following the same disgusting path as AU, where Gaza and Ukraine are concerned.
Swiss neutrality was a just a lie for long time
Another Australian/Swiss dual citizen here.... totally agree with you. Most Swiss I meet, appear to be increasingly " un neutral" when discussing current geopolitics.
I'm sick of Australias arse licking to anything the US suggests
And lapdog is usa?
I'm glad I found this channel!
Glad you enjoy it!
Pascal: many thanks - you are one of the most sophisticated I've seen...Well done!
The US did not find a country against Russia. They engineered it leveraging on the division within Ukraine (starting with Maidan coup in 2014), as they have tried with Georgia too.
Remember very well, Victoria nueland, the cookie lady of 2014
And after the coup they simply bought Ukraine. It now exists entirely on the western support.
Exactly
It started long before 2014. When I went to Kiev in 2011 there was already a well established western open air market where NGOs where selling colour revolution programs.
Putin made a coup attempt. The Ukrainian revoltet against it…..
what Putin did was a coup against Ukraine, the Ukrainian population revoltet against it. It is a perfect definition between a coup and a revolt……. So at least get you defintions right. When you spread russian propagande
As a Swiss citizen, I am totally against any move closer to NATO. Neutrality does not allow for that, but then, our two "ministers" Cassis and Viola Amherd do not give a ..... about what the population wants and just override us. Same tactic with EU alignment, Ukraine support, Russian sanctions, arms sales, peace summit without both warring parties..... all that has shot down Swiss neutrality. And now opening a NATO bureau in "The House of Peace" in Geneva is a morbid joke!
A great and informative podcast and channel in general. Loved the use of voices rather than subtitles. As a Swede living in New Zealand, I miss European insights, not international propaganda.
I love this channel too, as a European living in USA. And I too appreciate the voice layover instead of text! You may also find the channel The Duran interesting. They are on YT and several other platforms, talk about EU, NATO, Russia. Sometimes have several guests. Alex is from Cyprus, son of a diplomat, grew up in USA, and the other man, Alexander, is from Greece, working as an attorney in London. They are both very knowledgeable. Alexander is also fluent in French and visited France during the recent elections and reported about it.
@@yvonneforsman8649 Thanks, will check it out!
@helenblack9583. As Yvonneforsman8649 said The Duran are very good. Other channels equally good are The New Atlas by Brian Berletic, Jeffrey Sachs, Geopolitical Economy Report by Ben Norton, Garland Nixon, Rachel Blevins, Dialogue Works, The Grayzone, Chaz Freeman, Scott Ritter, Vijay Prashad, etc.
Much respect from an Italian here.. Great work Pascal
I'm a Swiss living in South Africa, when I was listening to a speech from Pres. Putin, that Switzerland gave up Neutrality by sanctioning Russia, I got a shock.
Mr Lüthi, I felt the same way.
However Russia and/or its hacker groups have been attacking attacking us for a long time. Russia has never thought of us as neutral. They just expressed it now.
it was damage control. switzerland itself would have been sanctioned if it hadnt complied.
A well open minded well balanced military man. My respects to you Sir.
I salute you!
Thanks for the translation, a priceless window for the mono-lingual.
Great interview. You're these great Swiss people who I love to see more and more.❤❤❤
NATO is not a defensive alliance. They illegally bombed Yugoslavia (direct violation of the UN Charter). We must never forget what they did to Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria etc.
Yugoslavia was about to commit a genocide in Kosovo and had to be stopped. Everything is very well documented in ICTY.
@@jasmins203 the Kosovo thing was highly exaggerated by the western media you know
@@mickvonbornemann3824 Well I have seen with my own eyes what Serbian irregular troops are capable of while supported by the regular troops. Read about genocide in Srebrenica. NATO prevented the same or worse on Kosovo there is no doubt about it.
@@jasmins203about to do? So there was no genocide xD
Nothing is "well documented" just naratives xD That court is joke, as we all know and it's now under sanctions by US, because of Netianiahu xD "Well documented hahahah I cant😂😂😂
@@IlijaZmaj there was no Genocide in Kosovo because NATO prevented it.
One of the best interviews I've seen in the last few years. Paranoia and militarism spreading even on historically neutral European countries... it's frightening.
Thank you Ralph Bosshard. Thank you Pascal.
Thank you, as an American, it's always good to see what others are thinking about such things outside the sphere of our media. I don't blame you for being against the Law of the Jungle rule. And agree, the object of all this seems as in 19th century, to take Russia's natural resources.
I am a dual Swiss/New Zealand citizen. I used to be very proud of Swiss neutrality, but I fear that is now seriously being compromised
“Operation Iraqi freedom” was the saintly title for the brutal invasion of Iraq. “Operation unified protector” was the angelic name for the destruction of Libya.
“Operation enduring freedom” was the virtuous name given to the unjust invasion of Afghanistan. All in the name of "freedom and democracy".
The majority of the world perceives these as such. It’s sad
Thank you for this interview!
Thank you, Pascal.
Thank you, Mr. Bosshard
A very enriching video on how to adopt a neutrality stance. Being able to remain neutral is crucial to the survival of a nation these days. Being easily swayed by any narrative can have disastrous outcomes. Zelensky is an example.
This channel is an oasis of intelligence and common sense in a desert of ignorance, greed and folly.
I was in Berlin in December of 1989... The Wall was coming down and I guessed that the only people worried were the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon and that Thatcher woman...
🇫🇮❤loves peace & neutrality, and would have voted against Finland joining NATO (Notorious Armed Terrorist Organization) if we would have had a referendum.
It's easy for our leaders to make decisions without consulting the people who put those in power
Europe is cursed with wars and bloodshedding
You had a pretty young brainwashed female minister if I remember correctly.
@@angelg3986 True, but it was not her only, but most members of our government wanted NATO & the media claimed that tne majority of the people did also.
@@tarmotyyri6733 here comes the next problem - who controls your media and how much they spent to form the society's opinion. In my country, the mass media shows only the u.s. democrats party version for everything and elaborates on it as a basis. An investigating journalist found official source that 47mil. USD were dedicated by the u.s. to our media. All that for a small poor Eastern EU country Bulgaria
The WEF is in Switzerland. What else do you expect?
They do not - NOT - represent swiss people or their mindset. The Swiss are occupied by those evil forces like the entire rest of the collective West.
Not only the WEF, the WHO and BIZ also, Swiss politician are stooges of this organisations. These organisations are stings in the flesh of Switzerland.
The first zionist conference was held in Basel. Switzerland is still a convenient venue for sinister people and their designs upon the world
Who’s Swiss’ boss?
Yes and all other countries join there. So does it matter where it is, or who joins in on? Don't be dumb, that makes you part of the problem
The Russian Federation government does not consider the Switzerland government as a neutral actor once you have joined western sanctions against the people of the Russian Federation. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement about it
thank you both wish you all a Good day
Ein Mann der noch ein funktionierendes Gehirn hat. Bravo.
first class neurons.@
Until 2014, 60% of the Ukrainian population considered Russian their native language. 02/23/14 The Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv abolished the status of the Russian language in Ukraine as a regional language, declaring Ukrainian the only state language. A week later, Russian troops landed in Crimea. If you are Swiss, try to imagine if your parliament tomorrow abolishes the status of the German language and declares French the only state language.
I definitely agree with you my friend 1000 percent 🥂👍😜♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
and was talking about stopping Russian's lease of Crimea Naval base to give it to NATO !
Thank you ! This is arguably the best episode you have given us.
Not one western politician has uttered the phrase "negotiated peace".
During my youth, many of us campaigned through CND - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - for nuclear treaties and a ladder towards reduced nukes. And it worked for many decades.
Until the USA unilaterally dropped out of two major treaties during the last 10 years. The Russians have asked the Americans 4-5 times to come back to the table without success.
NATO is now talking about placing long range, possibly nuclear, missiles on Euro/Russian borders. It also openly talks about regime change and breaking apart Russia, as if Putin and the Russian people will accept such interference!
The annual revenue of the top 20 defense companies (excluding Russian and Chinese) is about $400bn, roughly the GDP of Denmark. Approx. 150 countries have a lower GDP...!!! These companies can ONLY grow if there is war and conflict (I am assuming their non-war products are not as significant revenue wise).
They can easily spend just 1% = a massive USD4,000mio, on paying off politicians and generating social media and mainstream news media narratives that we consume like lemmings!
Of that USD400bn, not one cent will go towards the reconstruction of Ukraine or Afghanistan or Kosovo or Bosnia or Libya or Iraq or ...
As a business development / sales function of these companies, the new NATO narrative, now that Ukraine has been completely destroyed, is that it is needed in the Far East and so membership is being extended to Asian countries (Japan, Korea, etc).
They will sell a lot more missiles, guns, ammo, services, jets, ships, drones, radars and shields...! Given, that the Global South is de-dollarising (using local currencies instead of USD to buy oil and other products), NATO is perhaps America's easiest option to reduce it's self inflicted and mortal USD35tn in debt.
Thank you both for a very relevant discussion .
Thank you both
If Russia is successful in stationing missiles in Cuba, has the US a legitimate reason to invade Cuba? if yes, then Russia has similar reason to invade Ukraine who wants to join NATO that will allow the US to station missiles in Ukraine.
Perhaps you don't remember that the Azov Nazis, a group which is part of the Ukraine army, was shooting and killing Ukrainians in the east part of the country for 8 (eight) years, and the reason was that those Ukrainians in the east had Russian roots, b/c Ukraina was in the past part of the former Soviet Union.
No military in Cuba are killing Americans living there, so the USA has no reason to invade Cuba to stop any killings.
The Ukrainians with Russian roots asked Russia for help. After a while they did get help. And also, the ppl there held elections and voted to belong to Russia.
Russia has been offering peace to Ukraine again and again. Zelensky, who used to be the president of Ukraine but whose presidency time ended May 20, 2024, accepted peace but was told by the British and Americans not to and therefore changed his mid several times. It is NATO running this war circus, not Ukraine, not Zelensky.
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here is what western media fail to tell the world ...JFKennedy was not the winner , it was Russia who won , Krushchev got the US to remove their missiles from Turkey as part of the agreement if they want Russia to remove the missiles from Cuba.
It already happened. "The Bay of Pigs" invasion.
Exactly
Even the PFP is a shame for the Swiss. A shame!
Fascinating! This confirms in an amazing way the contrarian views on Russia held by Col. Doug McGregor
Great video, thanks! Hopefully people will be properly informed when they vote on the Initiative for Neutrality. Greetings from a Swiss citizen in Scotland!
at least some countrys
eyes opened to nato shit
Thanks for this very informative presentation
Thank you for your telling me the truth you are amazing to listen to very intelligent I have learned a lot from you sir thank you 🙏
Pascal, Love your interviews. Love listening to intelligent people,
Thank you, gentlemen.
Je vois qu'il y a encore des gens réalistes chez nous , le problème, c'est qu'ils ne sont pas aux manettes
We messed up when we gave women the right to vote... downhill ever since.
How so?
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Rule 1: Don't appoint anyone as Secretary of Defence that did not serve in the army
Rule 2: Don't appoint a woman to that position.
Tulsi Gabbard might work
You are amazing ! Best wishes to you and good luck with your splendid Chanel !
“…political elites are weak and it’s quite easy to put them under pressure…”_Ralph Bosshard. Also “NATO is under pressure..” Wow! Who really leads NATO?
This is all about building a military industrial complex in Europe. With Ursula Von der Leyen orchestrating it, she is deeply involved. With her controversial background, tax payer’s money disappearing in shady weapon affairs, she is now the leader of the European Commission and probably reelected, says it all.
So Europe has been manipulated into providing the US with another overseas military fortress.
A lady famous for mismanaging the German military funds. She just keeps failing upwards.
Pascal!!!
This is gold
Thanks loads man.
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I don’t understand what all the neutral countries are flocking to NATO ?
birds of a feather flock together. Follow the trail of money.
USA pressure and propoganda. Look at Finland. Had no issues with the USSR and all of a sudden crap their pants over Russia in Ukraine. Grow a brain Finnish govt
Cause they don't have real democracy anymore. And media is full corrupt there.
I don't know how you make these translations, but they sounded great. Awesome videos, congratulations!
These shows awareness
Amen
Unfortunately from my analysis Suisse has lost his neutrality long time ago and as country of direct democracy is just mater of time when you going to wake up hearing on tv that you are members of NATO with out of vote like Finland and Sweden
Pascal, is there a link to the original in German. Also would it be possible for you to produce French version of your interviews ?
Il y a déjà les interviews de Pascal et d’autres sur Sanevox français , UA-cam.
I forgot again. Original is here: ua-cam.com/video/1x_xwwHjwfU/v-deo.htmlsi=AaORUPLM2Lx5bbf-
I wonder what hold the USA has over the Western countries, making us so jingoistic?
Swiss has much of US money holdings. Just follow the money
Want to become free, become free of US dollar first.
@@xzox That is what I was thinking too!
Amazing! There is actually a country where it has sane people left in Europe? Excellent talk, excellent interview and excellent points raised Herr Bosshard.
Excellent analysis.
I liked that phrase: “preparing a bed and only pretending to not be tired.” Is that a common idiom in German speaking Switzerland?
An excellent interview.
Merci 👍
La vidéo existe aussi en FR - UA-cam.com/watch?v=WKcZ-XBxook
In the west we might have seen too many warmovies and gave too mych value to "the winner" using MORE force/violance to win. Now we do not know the value of peace. We seem to fail our persons with the very poor + negligent choices we are making. To value "winning" above "peace/stabilty" has a HUGE price tag consequence, as we have now found out. Confusion/chaos now reigns but let CLARITY be our sole guide out of this self-made mess!!!
THANK YOU, highly interesting and important.
Does anyone have a link to the global bridge site Mr Bosshard mentions?
Could you post links to the mentioned whitepapers?
Tack!
Thank you very much!
Could you explain Pascal how the swiss could ever consider themself neutral when it was and still is the safe haven for big capital and company?
Thought the Swiss had a functioning democray where Cantons vote on national issues?
Forget it, I live more than 70 years in this so called democracy or federalism. Usrael/UK is commanding and controlling the West. They behave like a Pavlov's dog.
Left media taking over
Insightful , thanks .
sind sich einig, dass die Schweizer sich davon fernhalten sollten, aber andere Nationen beeinflussen sollten, die diplomatischen
Roughly 5:45 onwards, Swiss officers seconded to NATO only learning 'counterinsurgency and crisis management', in contrast to other secondments with a focus on national defense (70%) in Moscow and 30% offense.
Thanks Pascal. God bless your voice. From Ireland 🇮🇪 God bless Russia, may they prevail against evil design.
Ralph Brossard is really outstanding he is totally right.Unfortunately the majority of the Swiss people do not agree with him.
I've got no words only to praise God for the light
Amen
Neutrality is just a Concept. In world war II Switzerland followed the request for darkening to the disadvantage of the allies bomber pilots. If you choose to do or not to do you automatically favor one side or the other. and in consequence you get the blame for not being neutral regardless your position.
Excellent
Never will happen history Russia will never surrender nazi Ukraine😅😮 and and nazi Germany and ja
Nato are link with Nazi
"Fifty years ago the streets of Lengingrad taught me one thing: if a fight's inevitable, you must strike first" Putin said. The politician of the West think he is bluffing.
No to NATO!!!!
Merci cher concitoyen
The Swiss in Afghanistan? ..I,ll always thought they were a Neutral Country,
I recall my history syllabus at high school late 1970`s on the Treaty of Versailles. The famous cartoon of the children crying on the steps outside as the leaders of France Britain and the USA drew up the terms for Germany. Who are those children and why are they crying? They are the next generation doomed to die in another war by the vindictive arrogance of the statesmen within. And of course, how we marveled at the patriotic propaganda that had stirred populations to march merrily into industrial slaughter assured by the press. Home by Christmas. People were so naive back then. Uneducated foolish naive masses led by pompous politicians & lying nationalist press barons. Tolstoy was right. Human beings never change. We are the insane once again. Only the stupid would think otherwise.
How You would control masses other way?
I am as a Swiss vote for the self-determination of the peoples in Ukraine.
Great interview, but I would like to watch it without the English translation, is this possible and where can I find it?
No to NATO, yes to peace.
Hello Pascal, I advise you to invite Mr. Jacek Bartosiak from The Strategy & Future for a chat. He is the leading Polish geopolitical strategist and number 1 Russophobe, that brainwashes young people around University campuses and has enough influence to shape Polish geopolitics. This would be a phenomenal interview.
You couldn't be more wrong: the Swiss (except for perhaps a few brave souls) and the Swiss government play along with NATO just like they played along with the Germans during WW2. Why do you think that that recent so-called "peace summit" (where Russia was deliberately not invited) was held in Switzerland?
I only remember that time when Switzerland hosted a "peace summit" without inviting Russia. Switzerland is just another US lapdog. Meanwhile Hungary is making real efforts for peace. Greetings from Switzerland.
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That was the main reason why Gorbachev dismantled the Warsaw Pact only to belie the Western narrative of its aggressiveness.
Counter insurgency and crisis management speaks volumes about the nature of the Western business by showing what they are most afraid of.
Ich fürchte, dass die Neutralitätsinitiative jämmerlich baden geht. Und dann ist es ganz schnell vorbei.
Who is familiar with what happened to Alexander Dorin - a very few people - know that "democracy" in Switzerland is skin deep, and underneath is fascism. He authored and published a book documenting that the Western (US/NATO) propaganda myth about "genocide" in Srebrenica is just that, and was thrown in jail for months, beaten, mistreated, under false, never substantiated accusation of participating in drug trafficking, prevented from using his house that was his main source of income etc. That was a coordinated action that had to start at a high political level, through the police apparatus, showing that Switzerland - like most of Europe - is not an independent country.
SWITZERLAND MENTIONED🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭WTF IS A WAR?!?!?MOOOH🐄🐄🐄🐄🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
@28:30 Who appointed UN Security Council as a world tyrant who can decide on aggressions against nations or peoples? What moral right it has to this power?