Switzerland is not so neutral on Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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In an emotional address to the Swiss people on Saturday — which was livestreamed at a solidarity rally outside the Federal Palace in the capital, Bern — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions on oligarchs and asked, "Why can't we live like the Swiss?"

Why it matters: Switzerland is famously neutral, but not when it comes to the war in Ukraine.

Driving the news: Swiss President Ignazio Cassis spoke at the rally on Saturday, praising the Ukrainian people's spirit of resistance but drawing a rebuke from the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), which provides two of the Swiss government's seven ministers.

"A demonstrating federal president is the last thing Switzerland needs," the SVP said. One of the party's leading figures has called for a referendum to ban sanctions to preserve Switzerland's neutrality.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/switzerland-not-neutral-russias-invasion-124503217.html

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1. long past time to rid the western world of the right wing parties

German, French, Hungarian, Sweden...and, apparently, the Swiss...

Not to mention the USA and Canada... all have the cancer of authoritarianism.

We need to remove this cancer.

Putin and Xe are demonstration just how unhealthy this trend is to people of earth.

South America has long known this. And yet there is Brazil.