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Zack wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2024, 19:46

Ethiopia never had a port so it cant claim to have a port or to claim a port ,if god didnt give a port u just have to live with it.how ever ethiopia can uses all the countries in the region to access the sea. nobody refusing them that

Dr Zackovich

Cigar wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2024, 22:24

The simple answer is that the Switzerland people have an IQ equal or a little less than the Eritreans but you the Ethiopians have the lowest IQ in the world.
You dumb as’ses love to shoot your own ugly feet while in a process shoot us your neighbors feet with your shrapnels.
Well you can keep on going all the way to South Africa to find ‘free lunch’ but it ain’t happening specially in Eritrea.
When your sh’it hit the fun and you realized that you might need to use Eritrean ports, in advance, you will be asked to pay the 100ds of billions of dollars you owe us for using our ports for over 40 years for free.
So, you might as well keep on begging or searching ports in Mongolia, Haiti or Jiffy for all we care.
Soon you will learn how to respect your neighbors, now that you yet again start to destabilize your neighbors Somalia and Sudan.
Learning from what Eritrea did you didn’t get in your quenti filled brains that you are acting like neighborhood hooligans.
You are stupid to not figure out that you will gain more from your neighbors than your neighbors can get while respecting them.

Abdisa wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2024, 18:48

BBC

Why Switzerland never takes sides



Back in the Middle Ages, the Swiss were very good at winning wars. So good that they turned it into a thriving business. “Basically [mercenary service] was due to economic reasons,” said Laurent Goetschel, professor of political science at University of Basel and director of the research institute Swisspeace. “[The old Swiss confederacy] was a very poor country – it was not suitable for large-scale farming and it had no access to colonial resources and no sea access, so being mercenaries was just a source of income.”

And the Swiss were reliable winners, so it continued to be a good source of income – until they lost. The reckoning came at the Battle of Marignano in 1515 when the French and Venetians arrived with artillery and armoured cavalry, and the Swiss brought pikes and spears. Sadly, technology had passed them by.

“After that defeat, they realised they were good soldiers in their way but halberds are not much good against artillery,” Church said. “They then stepped back from getting involved in Europe’s major political things.” Instead, the Swiss rented themselves out almost exclusively to France, which kept them in the black and also solved the inconvenience of occasionally finding themselves on two sides of the same battle. “It didn’t happen all the time but when it did happen, it was extraordinarily worrying and encouraged moves to neutrality,” Church said.

During this time, it became clear that the Swiss had fought too many wars on too many sides to be able to safely pick one for the long haul, especially when all the big powers wanted Switzerland for themselves because of the country’s strategic location guarding the Alps. So when the Congress of Vienna met in 1814–15 to sort out European peace after the French Revolutionary War (during which the Swiss had continued to serve as hired bodyguards for the French monarchy, including the last king, Louis XVI) and the Napoleonic Wars (during which the French invaded Switzerland and broke up the old confederacy), the Swiss put forth an elegant win-win solution for the whole continent: let us be neutral. This validation was key. As Goetschel points out, “Neutrality only makes sense if the other powers recognise you.”

Since then, Switzerland has basically been the non-partisan state we’ve all come to know. Stop by the statue of Charles Pictet de Rochemont to say thanks next time you’re in Geneva; he’s the soldier-[deleted]-diplomat who personally wrote the Swiss declaration of neutrality ratified by the Vienna Congress.

But then the World Wars happened, and that reputation was sorely tested, especially during WWII when Switzerland controversially bought Jewish gold from Nazi Germany and refused Jewish refugees. “From a Swiss perspective, [neutrality] was successful in so far as Switzerland wasn’t involved in fighting,” Goestchel explained. “There have been many debates if Switzerland was really neutral, especially in WWII, but it wasn’t involved in fighting activities.”

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2017 ... ose-a-side

Zack wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2024, 19:46

Ethiopia never had a port so it cant claim to have a port or to claim a port ,if god didnt give a port u just have to live with it.how ever ethiopia can uses all the countries in the region to access the sea. nobody refusing them that

Dr Zackovich

Swiss neutrality is one of the main principles of Switzerland's foreign policy which dictates that Switzerland is not to be involved in armed or political conflicts between other states. This policy is self-imposed and designed to ensure external security and promote peace.

Fiyameta wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2024, 23:22

OMG! The Wealth Per Adult for Naturally Landlocked Switzerland (former Mercenary) is $561,900, while it is only $3,085 for Naturally Landlocked Ethiopia, the difference of $558,815.