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Originally Posted by Royal Tiger
Agree with you on a lot of that. The Nazi invasion part though wasn’t about armed Swiss though. The government was aligned with Berlin, bought German military equipment, shot down allied aircraft, and even kept allied POW’s. Switzerland is one of my favorite countries. It’s also a small fraction of the size of the US, extremely xenophobic, and highly structured & regulated, so not easy to compare to other nations, the US in particular.
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Small? How about 8 million citizens, a third of whom are out of the country at any given time. Don't discount that the Nazi's kept billions of $ in stolen wealth there. Why invade your wealth. Not just extremely Xeno-hostile (not phobic, that means afraid. CERN was perfecting back pack nukes by 1956), but also ethno-centric and patriarchal. Highly structured and regulated? Like the gun laws in Detroit, Chicago and NYC? The facts of Switzerland are easy to compare with any country and not just the gun violence ones. Seen a luxury retail store looted there? How about a fast food or pharmacy store front? "fiery but peaceful demonstrations"? My employer, The Political Instability Task Force, has a web site that makes comparisons easy, of all the 195 nations of the world. We don't make the news, but we do report it.