But they didn't look so tough when Napoleon steamrolled the Confederation and installed leftist urban bureaucracies that killed the nation within two lifetimes https://twitter.com/L4serbear/status/931562642174631936 …
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
you mean the same Napoleon who destroyed the complete Holy Roman Empire? Oh no the shame
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Replying to @L4serbear @QuasLacrimas
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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Replying to @L4serbear
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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