The United States has placed Switzerland on a list of countries with “unfair trade practices”.

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    LOL… well the clowns were elected to the presidency… why are we surprised at the never ending circus?!

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      As Belgian I do think Switzerland is one of the best countries on the entire planet. There’s a reason why they have 30% immigrants, and it’s not because German is a fun language to learn 😁

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        German

        you do not need to learn german, switzerland has german, french and italian speaking regions

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    The US is so fucked. People are not going to give the bully their lunch money. They’re going to team up against the bully.

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      Which is good, and I say that as an American. The current leadership cannot be trusted. It’s going to be a long time before we can be trusted again. If ever.

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    Switzerland might really be one of the few countries no one can ever take over. Even if no one else cared — they will — sending troops running up a mountain where everyone has rifle skills and hidden bunkers is definitely not a military strategy I ever heard of.

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      …no one can fully ever take over.

      ftfy

      Reason why the country is what it is, is because quite a few have tried an kinda stuck around.

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      The Nazis had every secret fortification, every hidden bunker, everything mapped out, they were just leaving them for later. Probably wouldn’t have come to that Switzerland would’ve done a San Marino, which almost holds the record as the only country to ever elect and de-elect fascists, and elect and de-elect Bolsheviks. “Almost” because the fascists went AWOL upon Mussolini’s death, before they could be voted out.

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    How many months is it going to take for the Magats to realize they fucked America over?

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        Or they’ll say they need to go through this difficult transition in order to return to their former glory.

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      They won’t, they’re immensely supportiv"

      I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. .-- John Stuart Mille

      These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

      1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

      2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

      3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

      1. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

      2. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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    And we have been doing exactly what President Trump wants for a long time.

    And now you can see where it put you. Nowhere.

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    Welcome to the Trump’s list of bad countries, lets trade with each other.
    We’re growing fast …

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    He’s either completely senile or doing Putin’s bidding by destroying whatever is left of the US’s international credibility.

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    Does Trump want to fuck with the impenetrable banking fortress nation that is Switzerland?