Posted on 02/17/2014 5:23:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Help me out here. Is that a satire site?
No, usually it’s a TEOTWAWKI financial news site, followed by comments blaming Jews and Banksters.
Waiting for “Hitler finds out he could have taken Switzerland over the weekend.”
The Swiss Air Force is not the Swiss militia.
I heard Italy scrambled jets and escorted plane
lol?
According to Stephen P. Halbrook, author of a book called “Target Switzerland”
“Shortly before World War I, the German Kaiser was the guest of the Swiss government to observe military maneuvers.
The Kaiser asked a Swiss militiaman: ‘You are 500,000 and you shoot well, but if we attack with 1,000,000 men what will you do?’
The soldier replied: ‘We will shoot twice and go home.’”
Anyone really belive this? I mean, really?
As far as I’m concerned, this is literally an announcement that Switzerland has technology that no longer requires intercepter fighter jets to keep them safe.
And if they have it, everyone has it - including the US, of course.
And if you believe that’s too over the top Star Wars, then you just go back to your regular programming and let yourself believe all those international banks and bankers were actually totally unprotected, know they are unprotected, and are just fine with that.
It was a good-natured prod at a somewhat humorous story. It was not a comment on the Swiss Militia or Swiss military capabilities in general, and I didn’t expect it to be taken that way.
This whole scrambling jets thing is largely a farce anyway.
shrewd of the SAF to save on fuel and wear on their airframes by letting the French and Italian AF escort them in.
also, if the worst comes to pass and a 9-11 scene unfolds,
the Swiss can disassociate themselves from the incident.
LOL, those unionized soldiers have it made!
The Italians were there for the complimentary chocolate.
The story left out the part where the French surrendered as they were flying over the Alps.
One of my favorite quotes.
HAHAHA, that was a funny moment in that movie!
I also figure that their view is that a hijacking not a matter of national security. A lot of people in danger to be sure, but more a police matter than an existential threat to the country, so they don’t bother breaking out the military jets.
Just a different view from the US’s wanton militarization of response to everything down to growing the wrong kind of plant.
Interesting....if I were a member of a certain pseudo religion in a certain country run by rabies infested
mullahs I might, once I gained access to nuclear devices
decide that I did not need an ICBM or other high tech
delivery device to eliminate Zurich and other infidel
money grubbing cities in Switzerland. I’d just fly a
plane there after hours, enjoy the neutered not allowed
to shoot me down escort and detonate the device once I
landed at the airport.
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