Imagine waking up as a small country with Nazi Germany to your north, fascist Italy to your south, and every neighbor being swallowed into their spheres of influence. That's Switzerland in 1940—a nation whose only real asset was its commitment to being uninvolved, and whose only real threat was the absurdity of that commitment holding. The Swiss story is fundamentally about how identity and preparation can substitute for military might when geography hands you an impossible hand.
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