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[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

EU already absorbed Switzerland in this pic despite them not wanting it, so there's that.

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[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Undid Brexit too already

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[–] stetech@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

No Iceland either 😔

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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Or Canada.

What? That hasn't happened yet? Oh, sorry. That's the problem with being from the, er, can't say. Temporal prime directive and all that.

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[–] albert180@piefed.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Switzerland is 100% dependent on the EU.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not true.

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[–] albert180@piefed.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They are completely landlocked by the EU and their Airspace.

Also most of their imports/exports go there.

They don't even farm enough to sustain themselves. So yes, obviously it's true

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Landlocked does not mean dependent.

They also are not completely dependent which 100% means.

Last time I looked into imports and exports of countries Switserland was around 50-60%.

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[–] albert180@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Of course it does mean that.

If the EU wants, they can fuck up Switzerland quite badly.

All they have to do is to close the borders and airspace.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The claim was "100% dependent" which is extremely incorrect.

Not a single country in the world is 100% dependent.

Furthermore, the threat of an attack does not imply dependence.

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[–] sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

That phrasing was obviously hyperbole, since 100% dependence isn't even a well-defined statement (you can not assign a simple percentage to degree of dependence). Using it as a point to argue against is misguided at best, disingenuous at worst. You should read it as "it is definitely dependent [to a high degree]" rather than "it is entirely dependent".

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

I mean they mostly are, they're approx. 50% dependent for agriculture, so if the EU were to block all borders and halt all exports to them the Swiss would become significantly skinnier than they were before.

No shame in that by the way, the Swiss also provide the EU with lots of stuff and services that are valuable.

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