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It’s still formally neutral, but it’s neutral in name only. The economic and military benefits of being part of a scaled empire were too great. See post above.Unfortunately for Switzerland, it’s losing its neutrality at a bad moment in history, by being sucked into the gravitational black hole of the Western sovereign debt crisis. It’s getting pulled into a declining empire, instead of benefiting from a rising one. Maybe it suffers less damage than its neighbors due to legacy neutrality, but it won’t be uns ...