So basically Switzerland is a bunker disguised as a country

It's pretty simple, they had strong allies in the west. Unfortunately the US is perceived as extremely weak currently and the real China will likely soon fall to the ccp

Simple, we have the biggest moat. Plus, USA.

That would be the most basic of video and boring. Smh

They already made one

I want the video as well

What an interesting story and history that comes with your chalet! I bet you could make a bundle on Air B&B or by renting it out yourself and cutting out the middleman-of course when you do that, you can't have anything real personal or nostalgic in there-you know, those things that transform a house into a home.

Bro lives the dream💀 Nah fr tho I’m glad your family has such a nice house in Switzerland

I’d really like to hear this as well. I’m Australian but I have no idea what my government would do. Probably follow whatever the US did. I have a lot of friends in or from Taiwan so it’s worrying.

@@--enyo-- The failed Russian war on Ukraine should luckily deter China from invading Taiwan, especially since its a mountain fortress

For one, Taiwan interior is mostly steep mountains covered with forest, very favorable to guerilla. They had plenty of time to build something similar to the National Redoubt. Ho, and being an island, we can assume any usable beach have been prepared for artillery. The casualties to pay to have a viable beach head would be staggering, and then you would have to maintain those beach heads, with US navy pounding your supply lines : you would have to submit the island quick, which is hard being the guerilla paradise it is.

Yeah, I second the motion. Motion passes! ;)

Or Singapore

@@FortuneZer0 that would be a good one too

Indeed.

"We can't know precisely what was in Hitler head during World War 2." But we all know what was in it at the end of World War 2. 🤣

It's important to point out that the Swiss saw a lot of profit in it. How do we know? They've been caught trying to destroy bank records showing deposits for Jewish families, to prevent the heirs from getting their family money back. This is post war, with no Nazi war machine. Sure they didn't let Hitler walk over them, but look at the kind of people they were protecting.

They just profited from all the looted valuables pouring in. It’s easy to stay “neutral” if they need you to launder your cash.

They also shot down allied planes.

Allied planes had the same fate. The Swiss saw no sides, just foreign invaders surrounding them.

That's being called truly neutral I suppose

It's been war gamed to death. There's plenty of information about the results. None are even remotely desirable. Fingers crossed the dick wavers on both sides never get enough power to put the gamings to the test.

Seconded.

It would have taken years for an army to conquer Switzerland. They would have to snuff out every nook and cranny.

Damn that is tough

Even with modern technology, there is no easy way to capture your land. Not in any profitable way, that is. Dozens, maybe hundreds of enemies would die to kill one of yours. That's what I call government assistance, taxes well spent, lessons well learned.

Switzerland doesn’t have an army. Switzerland is an army.

they were at one point the most commisioned mercenaries in Europe.

@@theawesomeman9821 True, and very expansionist until the Battle of Marignano. Nowadays only the Swiss Guard serve as mercenaries in the Vatican

Hell even their fondue dish can b promptly turned in2 a weapon

😂 don't kind yourself. It's their bankers that matter. Gold teeth from the Jews aww that's fine. Drug money from the cartels aww that's fine. The swiss don't care where it comes from as long as it ends up in their banks.

Switzerland has taken up the mantle of Prussia.

Second

It's called "si vis pacem, para bellum", brain boy.

It's basically. "You can't touch us or the US is going to drop several thousand tons of freedom and democracy packages on you." 😂

As I understand: - sea-mines - anti-ship missiles - air defenses + an interceptor-based airforce - lots of hidden bunkers in the mountains, from which artillery can fire on the landing beaches It’s an island with lots of mountains, and most of the coast is cliffs. That means you can either land in the ports, which are defended and regardless lands you in urban combat immediately. That’s hell for an attacker The few beaches that exist lead into inhospitable terrain, and have said artillery bunkers watching. Airforce & hidden / hardened emplacement help place enormous costs on any incoming transports

The statement is still legendary. In addition, how many shots are fired each year during compulsory shooting, field shooting and other voluntary shooting events? Shooting (orderly and safely in appropriate shooting ranges, i.e. not Rambo-style) is one of the Swiss leisure activities, which means that you know how to aim and how to shoot (and it can therefore be assumed that the Swiss will also hit!).

a cute story but unlikely to have been uttered. Its Dutch equivalent was the Dutch Queen visiting Berlin and being shown the elite German Imperial Honor Guard, the Emperor leaned over to the Queen and hinted of the prowess of his guards who stood at 2 meters; Queen Wilhelmina was said to reply when the Dutch opened their dykes the waters stood at 3 meters deep.

Hitler would not attack the Swiss. He and his cronies were actively using the Swiss banking system for their plunder deposited into their personal accounts. After the war, Swiss banks were flush with unclaimed accounts from German and Jewish depositors.

Damn shame the rest of the world can't be the bankers of criminals

Nah it's fine, we like being special. Switzerland may not be a world power but it's pretty unique in many regards which most Swiss people like. It's definetly a point of pride the Nazis considered it too costly to invade. Besides you can't just become Switzerland, you need the Swiss. We are a strange people. Switzerland is what it is because most of believe in what it represents and uphold those values such as direct democracy, autonomy from Europe and that stuff. The mentality is kinda special. It had many bad aspects but some good ones are politness in person and in traffic. You let people pass and because everyone is courteous in traffic it works and keeps flowing. Go to Austria and all you here is yelling and honking everyone pretending they own the road. And generally people will be quite friendly. But it does have dark sides too. I would lie if I said feelings of superiority weren't wide spread. We are much like Americans. Much too patriotic and way too proud of our little fortress. Well the alps. The plateau would fall in days which is most of Switzerland and where all the cities are. So it would still be catastrophic. Everyone would have to flee towards the alps, Zurich, Bern etc... would have to be abandoned and burnt. It would have been costly. The Nazis would not have taken it but how much of Switzerland would have been left? Not a lot. They would have all the industry while the army hides in the alps, maybe do some guerilla type stuff against the occupiers but 80% of the country would have to be abandoned likely using scorched Earth tactics.

We even had airports inside the mountains. With massive gates that could be opened, large enough for fighter jets to take off and land on a runway built inside the mountain. Rumour has it some of those are still active or at least ready to be reactivated. Not sure if thats true tho, as i doubt that the cold war runways would still be long enough for our more modern FA18 and F-35 jets.

This is called armed neutrality and is still todays approach. Considering our size we still have a fairly large and well equipped army, as we have no allies that can be relied upon to defend us.

Agreed. I'd sooner use a K31 than just about anything else.

@@petergaskin1811 one of the first center fire rifles I ever purchased. I still have it and when I die it's going to be passed down to my nephew's who will enjoy shooting it for another whole generation

Given there was no state of war and they were neutral, It's likely the Swiss simply bought them. The Nazis weren't about to say no to money, and if they were purchased in the first half of the war the Nazi's could have spared them.

The Swiss bought them before the war. (Swiss Messerschmitts shot down some German planes in 1940 during the invasion of France as the Germans violated Swiss air space.) They got some more during the war as an advanced German night fighter by accident had landed on a Swiss air field and the Germans made a deal with the Swiss. Destroy the night fighter so its technology doesn't reach the Allies and you'll get some new BF109s. The Swiss blew the plane up with German spectators but the new planes they got from the deal had either been sabotaged by the Germans or the quality had just dropped massively as they had multipule accidents with them and stopped using them. (I think)

Full male conscription, so those rifles are part of the military, as every man is expected to grab said rifle along with uniform from the safe at home, report to his pre-assigned rallying point, receive ammo there; and then start military defensive operations

Obviously not, the Red Army fielded multiple times more soldiers than Switzerland had inhabitants.