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Why no one invades Switzerland.
Brasscheck TV ^ | 02/26/2010 | Brasscheck

Posted on 02/26/2010 9:40:34 AM PST by misharu

Something we all knew . . .


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1 posted on 02/26/2010 9:40:34 AM PST by misharu
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Darn it.... http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/754.html
2 posted on 02/26/2010 9:40:59 AM PST by misharu (US Congress = children without adult supervision.)
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400,000 machine guns in civilian hands. Good start.


3 posted on 02/26/2010 9:44:30 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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Mountains, too. The land itself is not terribly desirable. Most of the value is created by the character of the people living there.


4 posted on 02/26/2010 9:48:21 AM PST by proxy_user
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Love the stickers in his gun cabinet(filing cabinet).


5 posted on 02/26/2010 9:48:38 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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Dug into those mountains as well.


6 posted on 02/26/2010 9:52:55 AM PST by Suz in AZ
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Yep.
Switzerland is a good model for an armed citizenry/militia, but HEAVY WEAPONS make the difference.

If a division of armor could operate in Switzerland, game over.


7 posted on 02/26/2010 9:53:00 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: misharu

An armed society is a polite society.


8 posted on 02/26/2010 9:53:46 AM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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Mountains, too. The land itself is not terribly desirable. Most of the value is created by the character of the people living there.

Might be a little more to it than that. The country of Georgia is pretty moutainous. So is Afghanistan. Both seem to get invaded pretty much like clockwork.

Switzerland was valuable real estate when people were invading Italy from the north. Nobody has really done that in a while (except Austria-Hungary during WW1 and they didn't need Swiss territory to do it).

9 posted on 02/26/2010 9:55:35 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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Muammar Gaddafi calls for jihad on Swiss after ban on building minarets
10 posted on 02/26/2010 9:57:31 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: misharu

In an ideal world, I would have two long guns in my cabinet: An MP 7, for combating hoodlums in armor, and a Kryss Super V for everything else.


11 posted on 02/26/2010 10:02:36 AM PST by mikeus_maximus ("I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.")
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12 posted on 02/26/2010 10:05:09 AM PST by smokingfrog (You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... WWW.filipthishouse2010.com)
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Afghanistan gets invaded because the inhabitants keep coming out and making trouble. If they just sat there, nobody would bother the place.


13 posted on 02/26/2010 10:07:21 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: misharu

Also helps that they have SIG rifles that most fo us would die for or go broke buying one. Also on the range “he ain’t playin” spray or pray. Serious stuff.

The Soviets saw just how good Finnish farmers could shoot when they invaded Finland in 1939. Finnish Valmet rifles also helped. One of the most brutal wars no one ever heard of. Russians were slaughtered by the thousands and Finland lost about 20% of their population.


14 posted on 02/26/2010 10:10:41 AM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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Well, “Afghanistan” is really several rival nations cobled together and nobody really much likes anybody else, so you’ll get no argument there.

My point is that Switzerland stopped being a crossroads when France stopped trying to dominate the northern Italian mini-states after Napoleon. Since then Switzerland is kinda off the beaten path in a way that Afghanistan & Georgia are not.


15 posted on 02/26/2010 10:11:01 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: misharu

Since my family is Swiss-Italian, emigrating to California from Maggio in the 1800s, I agree with this whole-heartedly!


16 posted on 02/26/2010 10:12:09 AM PST by kaehurowing
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The Afghanis are tribes and their whole life and culture revolves around fighting and killing.


17 posted on 02/26/2010 10:12:11 AM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Rifles are often severly underestimated as a mainstay of national defense, scoffed at as little better than personal defense. But the dirty truth is, that tanks have to refuel and rearm. They need infantry along to not be at the mercy of infantry.

Think of our armored forces,, and think of the extreme difficulty we had for several years in iraq against AK’s and RPGs. Then imagine those guys were shooting like Swiss riflemen.

If Switzerland was as flat as Ukraine, the Nazis would have still stayed away.


18 posted on 02/26/2010 10:18:09 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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I disagree.
The problems in Iraq are because we aren’t there to CONQUER.

If you truly want to CONQUER, heavy weapons win every time.


19 posted on 02/26/2010 10:22:50 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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“In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.”


20 posted on 02/26/2010 10:37:24 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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