Annoyed at Switzerland being neutral?

I thought switzerland was notorius for being extremly heartless when it came to helping the jews?

Anyway it seems a bit unfair to judge them now on this

On the contrary, the Swiss were responsible for taking in a lot of jews during WW2. Even today, Switzerland has a lot of Jews.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

JS Mill

A load of rubbish in my opinion. Even if you live in a country that has wars, the average citizen doesn't get any exposure to it and the majority of Westerners aren't "miserable creatures with no chance of being free". If anything, war is more emotionally damaging than peace.

The Swiss were fairly harsh and have been criticised for it according to the wiki article you posted.

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality? - Zapp Brannigan on the Swiss.

Or maybe a rational way of thinking? They know that fighting wars for no apparent reason is futile.

Quite right.

You stayed out of WWI, while we foolishly entered it.

We followed our Treaty obligations and do you honestly think we could have stood back to see Germany become a credible rival? Yes the war could have been run better but that doesn’t mean the original reason to fight was flawed.

Aside from your unjustified and flawed tirade of insults WW1 reduced the power of the old ruling elites, there were destroyed in Germany and Russia for a start.

I think you'll find they started it, they invaded Poland....

Each to there own but I would rather have an Empire that fuelled the Industrial Revolution than remain isolated and make clocks.

Each to there own but I would rather have an Empire that fuelled the Industrial Revolution than remain isolated and make clocks.

The war was started by a Serb killing an Austrian, not Germany.
How the hell did Austria getting on the bad side of its Slavic subjects have anything to do with us?


The arrogant, useless, inbred elites started WWI because they had a tiff with their cousins.

A generation of young men suffered the consequences.

Lions led by donkeys indeed.

America was the fastest developing country in the world during the 19th and early 20th centuries and held an isolationist foreign policy until 1917.

I respect the fact that Switzerland has managed to stay out of other people's problems...the UK should have taken a leaf out of the same book!

But I am in favour of everyone invading Switzerland just to see what would happen.

Why?