zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Swiss have managed to stay out of wars for a very long time and are famously neutral.
codewizard@hear-me.social 8 hours ago
zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They did not stay out of war by not being armed, rather the opposite. A mountainous country with a large army would be very difficult to invade in the first place and then very costly to control.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Survival tool. :)
hedders@fedia.io 7 hours ago
Back in the day, Switzerland was one of Europe's main sources of armies-for-hire. We see the echoes of that today in the Swiss Guard in Vatican City, for instance.