smart petits suisses.....

The lower house of Switzerland’s parliament has voted against a proposed amendment to the national War Materiel Act that would allow Swiss weapons to be re-exported to Ukraine from third countries. The US and several European nations have repeatedly criticized Bern for its refusal to play a more active role in supporting Kiev.

In the vote on Thursday, 98 members of the National Council opposed the so-called ‘Lex Ukraine’, with 75 in favor. The initiative proposed by the lower chamber’s security policy committee in January is now off the table as the corresponding commission of the upper house has already shot it down.

The rejected legislation called for a temporary waiver until the end of 2025 that would have allowed the handover of Swiss-made weapons specifically to Ukraine.

Several lawmakers who voted against the initiative told local media that the move would have undermined Switzerland’s long-standing neutrality.

In March, the National Council actually gave the green light for Swiss-made weapons to be re-exported to Ukraine, with one crucial caveat – the UN Security Council should declare Russia’s actions in Ukraine as an aggressive war in breach of international law. This, however, is highly unlikely to happen as long as Moscow has a veto.

While the ‘Lex Ukraine’ is no longer under consideration, several similar motions have been put forward.

Meanwhile, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper reported in March that the Swiss government was looking into how several Swiss-made Eagle armored vehicles had ended up in Ukraine.

At least two such cars were photographed in different locations along the frontline.

According to the article, authorities in Bern were investigating an unnamed German company that might have been involved.

Switzerland’s staunch adherence to its neutrality has come under fire from some politicians at home, as well as major Western powers.

The US has reportedly been putting pressure on the Alpine nation to change its tack, with Ambassador Scott Miller telling the local press that the re-export ban only benefits “the aggressor.”

https://www.rt.com/news/577340-swiss-mps-against-weapons-reexport-ukraine/

smart eritrea......

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is in reality a war declared by NATO and waged by Washington against Moscow over the past 30 years, President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki told Sputnik.

Eritrea, a Horn of Africa nation located on the Red Sea coast, became one of five states to vote against the Western-sponsored anti-Russia resolution in the UN General Assembly in March 2022, after the beginning of Moscow's special operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine.

Later, the African state resolutely condemned the West's unprecedented sanctions regime weaponized against Russia. So what's behind Eritrea's firm stance?

"This is not because we are doing any favors to the Russian Federation," President Afwerki told Sputnik Africa. "This idea of 'war in Ukraine' or 'war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine' is not true at all. This is a war declared by NATO and Washington against the Russian Federation for the last 30 years. And Russia has a right to defend itself. You can't force or even use force, all sorts of coercion, to subdue nations. This is not acceptable. This is the law of the jungle. We need to get out of this law of the jungle and people will have to be free to live like human beings. Our position was very clear. We are against containment. We are against the domination or hegemony of one nation. We can't accept it. And our support for the Russian Federation against these hegemonic policies was a natural phenomenon or outcome of what we did also.”

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230602/president-of-eritrea-ukraine-conflict-is-part-of-us-30-year-long-war-on-russia--1110863206.html

IN FACT THE AMERICAN EMPIRE HAS WORKED ITS DEVIOUS ACTIVITIES AGAINST RUSSIA SINCE 1917 (106 years) — SINCE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. WE WILL IN SOME INSTALMENT IN THE FUTURE DEVELOP THE STUDY: WAS THE RUSSIA REVOLUTION NECESSARY?

WE KNOW THAT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS MOSTLY DUE TO THE POOR PEOPLE AGAINST THE SYSTEM, WHILE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS ABOUT RICH DUDES WHO DID NOT WANT TO PAY TAX.

WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE FRENCH KING HELPED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AGAINST THE ENGLISH — AND THAT THE AMERICAN —"ONE LIBERATED"— REFUSED TO PAY FOR THE FRENCH CONTRIBUTION TO THE REVOLUTION. THE AMERICANS INVENTED VARIOUS PRETEXTS NOTTO PAY... BEWARE, THE GREATER AMERICAN SPIRIT IS NOT BASED ON IDEALISED FREEDOM, BUT ON OPPORTUNISTIC DECEIT OF SUCH.

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By Gus Leonisky at 3 Jun 2023 - 6:30am
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belgium's beef....

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - Belgium said it would demand clarifications from Ukraine after it reportedly used Belgian weapons and hardware supplied by NATO allies in a raid on Russian villages, media reported Sunday.

Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder and Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said they would raise the issue with Ukraine at the earliest opportunity, Le Soir daily reported citing sources in the know.

Belgium has been supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine on condition that they will only be used to defend the Ukrainian territory, a source familiar with the matter told the newspaper.

The Russian military said a sabotage and reconnaissance group entered the western Russian region of Belgorod on May 22, killing a civilian and wounding 13 others. Russian troops killed more than 70 militants. A Polish armed group confirmed on Sunday that it took part in the raid.

US Media reported Saturday, citing US officials familiar with intelligence findings, that Ukrainian militants were armed with Belgian and Czech rifles and at least one AT-3 anti-tank weapon, which is used by US and allied troops. The Ukrainians drove mine-resistant MRAP armored vehicles donated to Ukraine by the US and Poland.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230604/belgium-to-demand-answers-after-ukraine-uses-its-weapons-in-russia-raid-1110908022.html

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By Gus Leonisky at 5 Jun 2023 - 11:59am
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swiss slosh....

by Francois Meylan

«The Swiss super magistrate who has just passed away, at the age of 78, following cancer, was renowned as a keen observer, humanist and tireless investigator.».

In an interview published in early December in Swiss newspapers Freedom et The mail, the former senator and lawman Dick Marti estimated that “democracy in Switzerland was going through its most significant crisis since the last century. We are witnessing a shift in power towards the executive, to the detriment of the legislature and the judiciary.», he lamented.1

The internationally renowned magistrate who was also rapporteur at the Council of Europe and member of the OSCE Human Rights Commission cited the example of contracts worth billions of francs for anti-inoculations. Covid. “No information on the subject has been made public. However, one of the cardinal principles of democracy is precisely transparency.". Marti also criticized the Federal Council and its use of the right of exception.

The disappearance of this character who will remain the most appreciated Swiss personality on the international scene of the last 20 years should, at the very least, not mark a punctuation but encourage us to continue his work. Because it is far from complete. He wrote, among other things, “A certain idea of justice», Favre, 2018, where he recounts his investigations into secret CIA prisons; on organ trafficking organized by members of the “Kosovo Liberation Army”, the KLA, and on Chechnya.

We discover there, or rather we rediscover, the supreme sense for justice of Dick Marti who began his career as a prosecutor in the canton of Ticino and was already very effective against drug trafficking and money laundering resulting from organized crime. But we also discover a very Swiss “cowardice”, even an ineptitude or unpreparedness, when these arise from federal institutions such as foreign affairs, justice or even the intelligence services. The recent debacle of the country's second bank, Credit Suisse, or the pitiful management of the fallout from the war in Ukraine (among other things, trampling on the sacrosanct Swiss neutrality) are there to remind us of this.

Dick Marti and his family have paid the price for this “neglected aspect” of the Swiss institutional system and have had to live under very high police protection (the highest, level 5) since December 20202. In a Switzerland whose highest institutions were incapable of defending it! The 46-minute documentary “Dick Marti, a righteous man risking his life»3reveals how the man whom the Swiss government should have defended very proudly and with unfailing tenacity had to live his last years hidden and separated from his family.

A few years ago, I was invited to a garden party organized by an entrepreneur and politician from Vaud during which the lawyer and former senator Luc Recordon explained to us how Dick Marti was considered and respected in Western Europe, in Eastern Europe. East, in the Balkans and even by the Russians when it was a question of investigating the abuses in Chechnya.

Hence the legitimate question: “Was the country up to the grandeur and influence of such a magistrate?»

https://en.reseauinternational.net/dick-marti-la-suisse-traverse-une-crise-democratique-sans-precedent/

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By Gus Leonisky at 31 Dec 2023 - 3:27pm
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