Switzerland must put up a united front with the NATO countries so that Vladimir Putin does not win the war in Ukraine, because a neutral state must rely on a functioning international order, which the Russian president has violated.
This, in a nutshell, is the argument put forward by Rob Bauer, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, the body of the Atlantic alliance that comprises the defence chiefs of the member states and which has Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general.
"It must be made clear that Switzerland plays an important role as a NATO cooperation partner," Bauer says in an interview published today by the Swiss-German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). 'It has been participating in the Partnership for Peace since 1996, so we have been partners for 27 years. We have just renewed our tailor-made cooperation programme." ...