Posted on 10/08/2012 5:35:18 PM PDT by Kartographer
Do the Swiss know something the rest of us don’t?
Ueli Maurer, the Swiss defense minister, has been making coy statements about the European crisis getting ugly – as in really ugly, like needing armed troops to deal with it. This sounds more like Greece, where the rioting is regular and increasingly scary, than anything in Central Europe, but where the whole EU furball is headed does seem less than clear of late.
The Swiss are famous for preparing for everything and having an absolutely huge army, relative to their population, to deal with any eventuality. They maintain their special military system, based on training for nearly the whole male population but a very small active duty cadre (plus a few, tiny UN peacekeeping-type missions abroad, since the Swiss have an actually defensive defense force): the Swiss can call up over 200,000 trained troops, which is but one-third of what was on-call twenty years ago – like everyone, they have downsized as the threat has receded since the fall of the Soviet bloc – but that’s still pretty huge in Swiss terms. In America, that would mean a mobilization strength of nearly 8,000,000 for the U.S. military (it’s a hair under three million, in case you were wondering).
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no offense to those that serve, but i will be in a militia before being conscripted and forced into the us army.
Folks, you can keep Switz. and Iceland, or Belize, or Outer Butthurt, or wherever you like.
I and countless others are staying. This is OUR land, OUR fight, and we will defend ourselves against Fedzilla, their EBT-card-wielding pawns, and all others who will make up the target-rich environment to come.
Whadda cutie :)
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