you mean the same Napoleon who destroyed the complete Holy Roman Empire? Oh no the shame
But they didn't look so tough when Napoleon steamrolled the Confederation and installed leftist urban bureaucracies that killed the nation within two lifetimeshttps://twitter.com/L4serbear/status/931562642174631936 …
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tbh that was a beating we needed to take we were way more divided in the time of the old confederacy and the french territories were still opressed by Bern back then
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it's not a neg... Switzerland as it stood in the 20th c. was the strongest argument still standing for republican federalism, and w/o Napoléon's malign influence might have done even better
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the HRE was a joke and Switzerland, if it hadn't been afflicted with a tragicomic-version of the HRE's internal disharmony, surely could have followed the Guisan strategy to good effect
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