Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted?

zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• 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.

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• codewizard@hear-me.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @zxqwas @Patnou what's swiss knife then ??

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  • 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.

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Survival tool. :)

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