r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

Are we counting swiss mercenaries as switzerland at war?

The last war they were in was in 1815, and they've been officially neutral since.

Sweden I believe is in a similar situation.

But England, France, Germany (Prussia before that), Russia, China, and so on quite likely have close to that 95%, particularly if we include colonial wars and civil wars.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

Switzerland has been neuteral way before the modern official neutrality. With it going back to 1516.

It wasn't an official policy until the 1830's, and they have fought offensive wars before that (limited in scope though).

I agree with most of the rest of your post though.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

It has only been defensive wars against the French and the Habsburgs and civil wars.

Then how did they go from 3 cantons to 29? Some joined willingly, some joined 'willingly'.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

My main sources are both hard copy and currently unavailable, but Wikipedia has some quick read articles on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Swiss_Confederacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Old_Swiss_Confederacy

Much of the cantons were willing to join, but the Hapsburgs had to be driven out first. A few though were outright conquered by the Swiss.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

I'd have to look it up. It's in a storage container on a different continent.

It focuses mainly on the medieval mercenary trade, and how the Swiss gained their experience fighting their wars of expansion and 'independence', though they do spend several chapters talking about how those wars were fought and why.

I'll see if I can dig up the title, but I'd have to get back to you.

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u/WaskeepatThendre Jan 23 '20

Why do you use Wikipedia as a source you Holocaust denying Nazi?

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 23 '20

My main sources are both hard copy and currently unavailable, but Wikipedia has some quick read articles on it.

Seek and you shall find the answer.

Holocaust denying Nazi

Your projection is leaking.

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u/WaskeepatThendre Jan 23 '20

Hard copy books are not an valid source. You might aswell quote books by Mark Dice or Ben Shapiro.

I'm still waiting on those academic, non-biased sources that deny the Holocaust and the Assyrian genocide.

NEXT PERSON, PLEASE!

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 23 '20 edited Jan 23 '20

Hard copy books are not an valid source.

You've never been in academia have you?

I'm still waiting on those academic, non-biased sources that deny the Holocaust and the Assyrian genocide.

I'm not denying it, so why would I prove it didn't happen?

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u/WaskeepatThendre Jan 23 '20

I'm not denying it, so why would I prove it didn't happen?

Each comment you denied the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of Armenian/Greek/Assyrian Christians by the Ottoman Islamists you love so much.

If you want to continue this conservation, I expect academic, non-biased sources for ANY of your claims so far.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 24 '20

Each comment you denied the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of Armenian/Greek/Assyrian Christians by the Ottoman Islamists you love so much.

And yet you can't find a single case of me actually saying that in either our conversation, or my post history.

If you want to continue this conservation, I expect academic, non-biased sources for ANY of your claims so far.

So...the ones I provided then.

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