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Originally Posted by tomsem
'I am Switzerland' is a metaphor for neutrality. No referendums are implied.
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All that about MTP said before, and it's File System that's hidden. The OS is irrelevant anyway, as even USB Mass Storage FAT32 was used on Android and is still used with non-MS OS clients. In fact the client OS over USB Mass Storage using FAT32 is nearly never Windows or DOS. It's used because it works with all Host OS. Also a USB Memory stick has no OS. On USB Mass Storage, USB Networking USB PTP or USB MTP the client knows nothing about the host OS. A USB keyboard, mouse, or memory stick will have no OS. You can have a USB MTP or Mass Storage client on a PIC microcontroller with no OS as such. An HDD (IDE, SATA, SCSI or native USB Mass storage) probably has some sort of small OS, but the host can't tell, and it doesn't care about host OS. USB connections of ANY KIND are OS agnostic.
The directory listing via MTP is slower than Mass Storage everything else being equal and can be very slow even with a few hundred files on Android. I don't know why, but it's true.
'I am Switzerland' is a terrible metaphor for neutrality.
Just say you are neutral, if you mean it.
Switzerland means so many things. The most significant unique thing is how the Confederation is governed (formed 1848). Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland and other places have had various kinds of neutrality (Sweden over 250 years till 2022, Austria after WWII, Ireland since 1922).
Sweden's was self imposed and abandoned due to 2nd 21st C Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite being neutral, a major arms exporter.
Austria's was imposed by winners of WWII, and voluntarily ratified in 1955.
Ireland's is 'customary' and not in Law or Constitution. Troops serve in UN forces. No fighter aircraft, warships, missiles, artillery or tanks. No longer any AA guns (though those were rubbish during WWII). Allied airmen 'escaped' and German airmen interned during WWII.
Switzerland Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain and Sweden) agreed at the Congress of Vienna in May 1815 that Switzerland should be neutral, final ratification was delayed until after Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated so that some coalition forces could invade France via Swiss territory. It's now in their Constitution. One of last in Europe or the World to join UN (Isolationist rather than neutral) in 2002. or give women the vote (Some Cantons 1959, federal 1971, last Canton 1990). During WWII both sides attacked Switzerland and all combatants were interned till the end of the war. See air battles and bombing. Switzerland has four official languages and no sea access. Very high cost of living.
You do not want to be Switzerland.
The UN principles are based on The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 which was the start of the idea of Swiss Neutrality. It's League of Nations 2.0.
However they have joined sanctions against Russia. As their Constitution forbids supplying weapons to a country at war they can't supply Ukraine. They are 'supplying' Germany.
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Swiss companies exported tanks, weapons, and other war materiel worth CHF955 million ($1.02 billion) to 60 countries in 2022. This is nearly a third more than last year, and the highest level ever recorded.
This content was published on March 7, 2023 - 11:34
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/busines...level/48338420
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There is really no such thing as a neutral country. Either it's self interest, isolationism, imposed by a defeat or avoiding liabilities.
Sweden, Austria and Ireland were neutral when joining EU. Only Sweden has completely abandoned neutrality.