To WEF Switzerland
St. Gallen, 15 January 2026
Dear WEF-Switzerland,
The Great Bully—the man who governs by threat and blackmail—is in the process of swallowing Greenland, and you are rolling out the red carpet for him. He will arrive with the largest delegation Davos has ever seen: aircraft, swarms of security personnel, helicopters, dozens of armored vehicles; even the fuel will be flown in. A small army entering our country. And yet he does not need any of this to take Switzerland. A flag is enough.
Europe is under threat, and not only from Russia. We downplay hybrid attacks because business comes first. We “muddle through,” as our foreign minister calls it with disarming sincerity. Neutrality—an elegant code word for our business model. Now the unthinkable is happening: the United States is attacking Europe. Anyone who does not stop the Great Bully now is inviting further assaults.
That is exactly what we are doing: opening the doors wide to the raiders, in anticipatory obedience. Because the U.S. might retaliate with tariffs. Haven’t you understood it yet, dear WEF Davos, dear official Switzerland? They will do it anyway. Whoever shows weakness will be steamrolled by strength. It will not end with Greenland. The plundering will continue: first against the weaker, then against the neighbors, then against us.
We can meet this madness—and the looming loss of our democratic sovereignty—only with resistance: honesty. Publicness: no restriction of our right to demonstrate. Parliamentary pressure: no flirting with the politics of intimidation as a principle of foreign policy. No excessive importing of military hardware. No lawless security zones. If we play along as well, we become nothing but a vassal state.
When they came for Venezuela, I kept silent; I was not Venezuela.
When they came for Greenland, I kept silent; I was not Greenland.
When they came for Switzerland, there was no one left to protest.
Martin Niemöller, paraphrased (the original lines hang in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
I expect no reply—but I do expect a stance.
Yours faithfully,
Christoph Keller
Writer and driver of a non-armored wheelchair
