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14 days agoHe is picking the easy target. He tries to keep the alliance together and probably knows that talking to US Americans is meaningless or too difficult, so he chooses the easy way out.
The Europeans won’t deprive him of his Amazon account after all.
They never were neutral. Austria never was neutral. This is just a diplomatic term but ultimately doesn’t mean what it implies.
Switzerland is always happy to launder and store money for any despot or pariah state. That is not neutral.
Austria’s companies made (and still make) good money with Russian oligarchs. Anything but neutral.
It’s a made up concept to have some sort of argument for the newspapers and common ground between diplomatic talks.