Complete and utter russian propaganda bs
Posted on 06/28/2023 5:23:09 AM PDT by RandFan
Bern, 28.06.2023 - On 28 June, the Federal Council rejected a request from Ruag AG concerning the export of 96 Leopard 1 A5 tanks destined for Ukraine as it is inconsistent with applicable law. It has therefore given priority to Switzerland's commitments as a neutral country and to the reliability of its application of the rule of law.
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I agree. Neutral Swiss means neutral. Providing arms to the Ukraine debacle is not neutral.
Right, so even other countries shouldn't help Ukraine against Putin's invasion? Okay
>>96 used and non-operational Leopard 1 A5 tanks. The tanks are currently in storage in Italy and would require refurbishment in Germany before being re-exported to Ukraine.
Tanks are owned by and in Italy.
As I read the article, they are stored in Italy but are still owned by the Swiss government.
Here's an earlier article that says Swiss State owned RUAG bought the tanks in Italy to use for spare parts or to resell, and are attempting to sell them to Germany to be sent to Ukraine.
Switzerland’s state-owned arms manufacturer RUAG wants to sell 98 old Leopard 1 tanks to Germany for later use in Ukraine, SRF reports. So far, the Swiss authorities are giving RUAG negative signals, but the company has now officially submitted an export application.
RUAG bought the 98 tanks in Italy seven years ago to later resell them or use them for spare parts. The tanks remain in Italy, but now RUAG wants to sell them to the German Rheinmetall armaments group for further re-export to Ukraine.
Exactly! The sooner this is over, the better. Ukraine will not and cannot possibly win this thing.
If any lessons are learned from this three of them have to be that 1.) It’s a good idea to keep large stores of ammunition on hand and 2.) Older equipment is not necessarily obsolete and 3.) They had better hang on to that reserve system they have...there is value in having a large pool of men trained for war.
>>RUAG bought the 98 tanks in Italy seven years ago to later resell them or use them for spare parts. The tanks remain in Italy, but now RUAG wants to sell them to the German Rheinmetall armaments group for further re-export to Ukraine.
Get them out of Italy and maintain them.
Feel the same way about Taiwan? Invaders should not be hampered?
I know the Swiss are disappointing to you, but you could always volunteer and fight the RuZZians yourself, oh mighty armchair warrior.
OTD in 1940 USSR annexed parts of Romania.
Imagine annexing bits of other people’s countries in this day and age…
We fomented a Ukraine revolution/coup in 2014, caused a civil war and sided with the neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists that wanted to exterminate the ethnic Russian population.
We encouraged Ukraine to ignore the Minsk Agreement it signed that would have brought peace to the region.
We armed Ukraine with offensive weapons, teased NATO membership for Ukraine (Reagan and Gorbachev agreed on dismantling the eastern Soviet bloc on condition that we would not bring countries bordering Russia into NATO) and opened biological weapons labs there.
Then we built the Ukrainian army into the largest army in the NATO zone besides us, and massed it for deployment in the area of the Donbass in obvious preparation for an attack.
And finally, when Russia responded to all that, we claimed they invaded Ukraine for no good reason to annex territory.
Not interested in Taiwan at this time. Please try to stay on topic.
Complete and utter russian propaganda bs
Thanks for NOT answering, very telling.
Yep, you got that right, it would be helping Degenerate Nazis degrade Civilization.
I suppose that you are the kind of naïf that believed in Francis Fukuyama's book ‘The End of History’ which is crazy because nation states have interests and territorial concerns that overcome any sense of Kumbaya.
How old are you? 12?
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