Switzerland has faced a lot of backlash for the US's actions regarding Iran, but they really need to watch out. Trump has the power to cut them off from the financial system, and US exchanges and big institutions have a strong grip on the market.
Switzerland should realize they’re walking a tightrope here. If they don’t align with Trump, they could end up facing economic collapse and a banking crisis. That would be a disaster for major banks like UBS. How are they going to explain that mess to their wealthy clients in Switzerland, Monaco, and France? Those clients are linked to the CME Group, Cboe, and Comex, all of which are under US control.
How are the bankers and the government going to justify putting their clients’ wealth at risk by taking a political stance? If Switzerland loses access to US markets, crypto won't save them either since it’s also under the thumb of US institutions.
Trump isn't just talking; he’s making things happen.
A lot of Switzerland's exports to the US are pharmaceuticals and chemicals. They can't produce that domestically if they have to import them from that far so what would they do without them?
A lot of Switzerland's banking sector is already in other countries due to a lack of privacy that was initially guaranteed. A lot of people needing complete privacy and decent backing routes can use other countries (I'm assuming there are banks doing what HSBC used to do that are small or exclusive enough to keep them undetected).
With Donald Trump in the white house nothing is impossible, any country or person that fails to do his biding and does not agree with him in certain issues Trump will somehow find a way and call the person a bad name . In a bid to take the person out Switzerland used to be one of the world safe heavens when it comes to securing your money in the past. But with the current global order that we are seeing I think that, that is gradually shifting and if Switzerland doesn't align well with trump I will not be surprised if trump cut them off.
Actually he is busy with war in the middle east and its repercussions on the global economy. If the war will run for a longer time than expected, I guess Danemark can Switzerland from being annexed to the USA as planned. The cost of the war will drains american power and influence over the world. Meanwhile, the USA always consider Switzerland as a strategic security zone with already existing US military bases, such as Petovik base. The USA can reduces tension against the island to garantee the support of Europe in the war in the middle east since all europeean countries are against the annex of Switzerland as Trump has planned.
I think the situation is more complicated than that, it is not as simple as it sounds. Because Switzerland is a very important financial center and has strong connections with many global markets, not only the US so he will have to think twice.
Even though the US has a lot of influence in the global financial system, completely cutting Switzerland off would be very difficult and could also create problems for many international institutions and investors. Countries usually try to balance their political positions carefully to avoid damaging their own financial systems. So its not as simple as one country just shutting another out completely.
I dont see how it benefits the US to put sanctions on Switzerland. The most Trump might do would be to threaten them with tariffs, like he has done to Canada and Denmark. Switzerland is in good standing with most of the world and doesnt pose a threat to the United States. Punishing them for pushing back slightly against an extremely unpopular war would look like a weak and desperate move by Trump.
If they were able to criticize Trump and his actions, theyre probably not worried about not having USA on their side. Most countries just say nothing even if this war is affecting them badly because USA is on their side and they dont want to piss of Trump.
You probably confused Switzerland with Greenland. Greenland is an island, and Switzerland is a European country in the Alps.
Greenland will inevitably be captured by the United States sooner or later, since it is needed more as an asset (the island's potential resources) to maintain the dollar's financial system than as a direct source of resources or a military foothold in the Arctic (it already is).
Switzerland is absolutely dependent on the dollar system, just like the Euro area. Neither can exist without dollar loans. In other words, these financial systems will collapse if the dollar supply disappears. And the dollar system is supported by the petrodollar monopoly (in fact, the dollar is provided with energy).
It was unintentional mistake while doing researches as English is not my first or second language and Swizerland in my local pronounced completly different. I would like to thank you for the correction. But the meaning in my ppst is clear that the USA is about to delay its plans with Greenland to attract support from the europeans after finding that the war has desastrious damages than what it was ready for, and that it may last for unditermined time. Britain already allowed the usa the access to ise its military base in Greece and French went through marathonic procedures to treat the issue in the Strait of Hermuz.
Refusing them access to their airspace so as to attack Iran brought about all these rumours of cutting them off this and that.
He has not just attacked iran but also attacked his allies prior to the war and during the war. He now moans on truth social like a lady who's not had good sex and satisfaction for years. I dislike that he has stupid people around him who can not table his dull brain cells and ego. All they said is no to zionist killing children and no to accessing their base against iran. The empire is crumbling right before our eyes ad you can see their allies saying no to them.
Trump is a toy for the rich, he does whatever his rich friends asks him to do, so much so that before all of this Iran stuff, he has actually cut off medical help for people who had no money while at the same time giving trillion dollar worth of tax cuts to his rich friends.
Why do I mention this? Because we are talking about someone who does what the rich want sand all of the rich in the USA hides their money in the Swiss banks and that's why I do not think that they can do this.
No he can't and no he won't. While people around him let him do whatever he wants whenever he wants that doesn't damage them, if it starts to damage them, they stop him for sure. The whole Greenland thing for example, he wanted that as much as he could and he tried whatever he can but at the end of the day it didn't work out and instead he attacked Iran because people around him let him do that.
So that's the difference and if he ever wanted to do something about the Swiss banks then he would be in big trouble because that's not what he could be doing without losing all the donations he gets from the billionaires who has money in those banks. This should be the difference maker, if he could do something about this then he would have done to many EU nations but he couldn't.
You are right, Switzerland ain't China in any regard because Switzerland is the money capital of the world holding more financial responsibility than many countries of the world, and if Trump were to go to after them causing an economic collapse, despite having his mind of the current war, those big investors would flee to the US or Singapore or even Dubai.
This thought alone is enough to make the swiss strive to remain very useful and too relevant to ignore, by being sort of back channels for the US and other major countries that you think are firing at them currently for saying 'no'.
Yup, he does do, he does do everything that makes America weaker in the eyes of everyone around the world - he's a total failure of a president. Anyone that still supports him at this point needs their head checked out and maybe should go back to school. He is not looking out for Americans, he is simply creating distractions while he enriches himself and his family - he's been engaged in more corruption, insider dealing and scams that any president. He's spending $500 million on a ball room for the White house, he has spent almost half of his entire term on the golf course, he promoted his crypto token while cashing out at every opportunity, he's all over the Epstein files and just every single day we wake up to a new scandal. Switzerland don't care and will wait out this old man until a decent president comes along again.