Learning: no sudden collapse, but methodical erosion
Swiss Sovereignty responds to a reader's analysis. The response is: «everything's fine, move along». This is precisely how you break a model that works: not by attacking it head-on, but by letting it erode little by little, through “weak signals”, biased guidance, social prestige and decisions [...].
Silence from the Confederation and subsidised propaganda: when Switzerland abandons one of its own
There are silences that protect. And there are silences that betray. In the case of Jacques Baud, the silence of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs is deafening. While foreign institutions stigmatise a Swiss citizen without judgement, a public platform, SWI swissinfo.ch, financed by the SSR SRG, meekly relays the political wording [...].