Is it viable for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to remain effectively neutral as the West grapples with rising Chinese and Russian threats?
to Western media but salivates about them to Russian audiences. Take Putin’s “I’m a modern-day Peter the Great”views Taiwan’s subjugation as an almost divine responsibility. Xi also views the South China Sea as his private swimming pool and all other nations therein as subjects that must bow to his regime. China and Russia are cooperating politically, economically,, which led him to repudiate many in his party and advance additional military aid for Ukraine.
Consider the examples of Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. All are Central European powers bordering one another. All have had the benefit of traditional distance from Russia and a traditional assurance of unquestioned American support and protection. Switzerland presents a similarly interesting case. Switzerland has supported sanctions imposed on Russia since the war in Ukraine. But it remains determined not to send weapons to Ukraine or adopt a tougher stance against Russian threats to Europe. A top Swiss journalist recently challenged Switzerland’s historically neutral status. Eric Gujer decried the “joke” of armed neutrality alongside a “lack of weapons.” Switzerland, he said, wants to be neutral but also “be a little important.
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