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Re:Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more m... by shjake on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:14AM (#35179110)
> 1814

I think it’s much older than that, though. The Swiss confederacy had been trying to be neutral since the 16th-17th centuries.

Also Austria does have some significant pro-Russian tendencies for some reason..

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Re:Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more m... by red-iron-pine on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:14PM (#35184976)
The Russians exerted a vast amount of effort to recruit and generate sympathetic leaders in Europe (and elsewhere; i.e. Trump). They had a lot of sympathizers in Germany, and a small cadre of NATO-skeptics in France.

Austria is a lot smaller and easy to influence.

It's also not in NATO, and there is strong public sentiment to stay out of NATO -- which means there is a vacuum Russia can enter in ways that it cannot with full-on NATO members.

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