Why Nobody Invades Switzerland

tony rogers dot com ^ | January 14, 2010 | T.Rogers

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Link to video; Why Nobody Invades Switzerland

[Does so]

"...another reason the Nazis chose not to invade Switzerland is because of the swiss alps..."

The Nazis (National Socialist Party) planned an invasion: "Operation Christmas Tree".

[Constitution Day]

Agreed

[SJSAMPLE]

Those SIG 210s were beautiful.

[TruthHound]

I've always wondered why The Swiss a country that is neutral and has no army, but still puts out some kick-butt knives.

[HIDEK6]

They also have all the money in the world.

Piss 'em off and you're broke.

[OldDeckHand]

"Another reason is that Switzerland has a non-interventionist foreign policy and minds its own business. A worthy model for us in more ways than one."

How noble. I'm sure it was especially appreciated by the 6+ million Jews who died right next door, as the Swiss made cheese and chocolate.

[Does so]

"...Another reason is that Switzerland has a non-interventionist foreign policy and minds its own business..."

There are thousands of Muslims who have "intervened" in Switzerland: the Swiss' turn is coming up.

[dragnet2]

This is a great video that needs to be shown far and wide.

Yep...I would seem ya go into Switzerland looking for trouble, you're going to be in a world of hurt.

[anonsquared]

Pay taxes and be given ammo in exchange. Sign me up.

Love the sticker in the guys gun closet:
Punish criminals, not gun owners

[dirtboy]

You cannot be too harsh with most Paultards AFAIC.

[ltc8k6]

They can throw those things 400 meters?

That is impressive.

[Pharmboy]

The Swiss also had some special deals with the Nazis, as I understand it.

A Swiss friend also told me that Hitler said something like this regarding the Swiss:

Wir werden mit dem kleinen Igel viel letzten (We'll deal with that little porcupine last)

[marktwain]

“Belgium had a similar policy and we see how that worked out.”

Certainly, Switzerland is more defensible than Belgium, but I have not found any references to indicate that Belgium required all of its citizens to keep military weapons at home, or that it had a policy of immediate activation of the entire male populace if invaded.

Do you know what percentage of the population kept weapons at home in Belgium? If it was similar to the Swiss, It would be most interesting.

[marktwain]

“Yeah so what if they make money off of Holocaust victims, it’s just business.”

You mean if politically correct lawyers make millions by rewriting history, it becomes fact?

[GonzoGOP]

There are only a few passages through and they are easily defended by the citizens.

Citizens who have all had military training and were dug into forts that made the Maginot like look like Fort Apache. The biggest difference was that the Swiss forts couldn't be bypassed and they had two years of food and ammo buried in tunnels under the mountains.

Now if you want to be a non-interventionist that is what you have to do. You must turn you citizenship into an army. Turn your borders into walls, and your entire nation into a fortress. Then, and only then, can you not worry about what else is going on in the world. In addition during WWI the Swiss converted all their railroads from steam to electric so they could use local hydro electric power and not have to worry about being cut off from supplies of oil and coal. Finally they were self sufficient in terms of food. The fortified borders and mountain passes meant that they could not be taken by storm and they could out wait any attempt at siege.

In contrast the United Stats has only a small fraction of its population with military training, no border defenses what so ever, and no fortified or hardened bases to fall back on. There are no great stockpiles of food or ammo to support a protracted battle on American soil. In addition, dependent as we are on imported fuel, there is no way for our economy to survive if we were to be cut off from foreign trade. The US is forced to fight its wars overseas, because fighting here is just not a winning option.

[marktwain]

“I've always wondered why The Swiss a country that is neutral and has no army, but still puts out some kick-butt knives.”

Switzerland doesn't “have” an army. Switzerland *is* an army.

[dfwgator]

What would have stopped the Nazis from simply bombing the Swiss into submission, like they did the Dutch in Rotterdam?

[dragnet2]

Pay taxes and be given ammo in exchange. Sign me up

Can you imagine our corrupt, controlling, socialist government sponsoring the worlds biggest practice shooting event, and furnishing the ammo too?

That's as likely as IRS employees sponsoring tea party events.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

One parallel would be the fins. It is a nation that highly values gun ownership to this day. Look at the trouble that the U.S.S.R. had in conquering them. The first winter war took a lot out of them and is one of the reasons that Hitler had confidence in invading the Soviets. Finland has a similar setup to Switzerland where it’s a small country that can mobilize it’s citizens to fight. Russia never truly conquered it and they signed a peace treaty in 1944.

[OldDeckHand]

"You mean if politically correct lawyers make millions by rewriting history, it becomes fact?"

There's no rewriting of history necessary. It is an indisputable fact that the war criminals that profiteered from the Holocaust used primarily Swiss banks to launder and store their loot. Swiss auction houses fenced paintings, statues, jewelry and other items of fine art that were all confiscated from Jewish families in German, Austria, Poland the Netherlands and several other countries.

The Swiss weren't "neutral" in WWII, they we accessories after the fact.