> It is not entirely clear why Switzerland is not one of the allied countries.
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It is not entirely clear why Switzerland is not one of the allied countries.
I mean, Switzerland is explicitly neutral. They might be aligned with the US on quite a few matters, but they are not allied with the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country
A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO, CSTO or the SCO). As a type of non-combatant status, nationals of neutral countries enjoy protection under the law of war from belligerent actions to a greater extent than other non-combatants such as enemy civilians and prisoners of war. Different countries interpret their neutrality differently:[1] some, such as Costa Rica have demilitarized, while Switzerland holds to "armed neutrality", to deter aggression with a sizeable military, while barring itself from foreign deployment.
I'll grant that "allied" is sometimes used in a looser sense, but I don't think it's very controversial to say that the US and Switzerland are not allied.
The US is allied with a lot of countries, but Switzerland isn't in them:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/119l1w6/map_of_united_states_military_allies/
And I think that this came up pretty recently in the dispute over Switzerland refusing to provide ammunition for German Gepard SPAAGs that Germany had provided to Ukraine and where Rheinmetall's production facility was in Switzerland. Switzerland said that they would not do so, they considered themselves bound by their assertion of neutrality not to do so.
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Well the US forced Switzerland to lift their bank secret because of tax avoidance, while being the biggest tax oasis themselves (Delaware)
And being afraid of Swiss Military Might is complete Bullshit, just as most things in the US they explain with "National Security". (Just as they put up an Import Duty on Swiss Watches for "National Security" Reasons under Eisenhower)
