Has Switzerland Always Been Neutral? (Abridged History of Switzerland)
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Here is a non-European history video czcams.com/video/oojb6MvpLWk/video.html
Hey, I just want you to know, I exist.
Drew Durnil do a sweden pne
Nice video! Best wishes from Switzerland🇨🇭🙏
3 kingdoms AI only!
The whole country is a big plus
“Instead of the trees speaking, the mountains would yodel”
Lol damn I’m gonna remember that one
Swiss army in a nutshell
czcams.com/video/erC4FFHPONQ/video.html
I can hear the song already.
It scares me
Soldier: The Germans are invading! Sound the yodels!
Franzl Lang: I’ve got you!
@@Vigilante-3-1 guess I'll join the Swiss military
When you just tryna bypass the maginot but then the mountains start yodelling!
*visual distress*
Wars: *exists*
Switzerland: Ima pretend i didn't see that
SuperGaming53 Napoléon: Well yes but actually no
@@argentik7294 Swiss: *Brandishes sticks* Well yes but actually yes
Yes but actually I don’t really know
more like Switzerland sees war "ooo money to be made want to hire some mercs. do we want to join ... nope, but if you want to send money for our services feel free"
We got War of Sticks to do!
Drew and the Swiss do one thing best, observe
you right
This seems like a roast on this video
He’s a lot like Bran Stark in that regard
Did you live in Cuba for part of your life? If so what’s your opinion on communism? I realize this may seem offensive and I’m sorry but I’m genuinely curious.
Mikee 1234444 Only lived in one country, the US and not a fan of communism
Switzerland: neutral for like 200 years
Poland: Is it possible to learn this power?
"Not from the neighbours you have."
First step is living on top of a mountain.
Second step is not having anything anybody really needs which they do not have already.
Switzerland existed through the 20th century because of location and that they weren't worth the effort to be bothered with at the time conflicts were going elsewhere. Being well armed for the population present in in phenomenally defensible terrain helped! Have no doubt that they would have had different success with their neutrality if either world war had gone differently.
git Gud...... actually get mountain
as a swiss I can tell that what you said is pretty correct (and that's rare for a foreigner) and I approve this video !
After watching this I’m just picturing a bunch of Swiss soldiers Yodeling as they leap of a mountaintop onto a Panzer 3.
I find that both Hilarious and Badass.
Aaron Kitzmann that’s probably how it would go, Switzerland has thousands of bunkers in the Alps
Yes, really correct.
Most Swiss don't know (or remember cause they've been taught in secondary school) their history.
Wow, so it’s similar to the Maginot line then?
@@aaronkitzmann9419 pretty much, but also imagine every single road, bridge, and tunnel in the country being packed with explosives and ready to blow at any moment
Dang, I was hoping you'd meme the fact some cantons in Switzerland were neutral in their own civil war during the Sonderbund war.
Yeah that's like swiss squared
Kantons not cat -tons just trowing that out ther ;)
@@antraxosazrael8480 Oof, uh, you saw nothing!
Antraxos Azrael actually in English it is Canton and in German Kanton...😂
@@dariusniederer856 Lol, this is great
_France: Invades Switzerland_
*_Sticks: I'm about to end this man's who career._*
Basic English Grammar That Literally Every Freaking Normal Citizen In The Entire World: Exist
RacistTweetFrom5YearsAgo: I'm About To End The People Who Work Their Blood And Sweets And Tears To Make Dictionaries So You Can Put A Basic Sentence So Everyone Can Sound Like A Normal Person Like Everything Else In The Universe So Everyone Is Happy And Doean't Have To Worry About Putting A Sentence Together.
@@theinquisitor2220 Doean't
you sure?
The French did succeed in invading though lmao.
The Inquisitor:Exist
Everyone:Dam we kinda don't care
ou yeah
"Our -words- neutrality is backed by nuclear weapons"
- Switzerland
-almost Switzerland
Just imagine watching Zurich and Geneva nuke Ghandi in Civ 6
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 Gandhi : you underestimate my power
@@aneesh2115 Zurich and Geneva: Don't try it Ghandi
*Are suzerained by pre-nerf Hungary*
The only reason why we don't have nuclear weapons is that our breeding reactor melted down in the 1950s.
Still waiting for "Has Germany Always Been Trying To Take Over Europe?"
Same
No... Cuz they already did.
It's called the EU
@@doingmoms3483 Well yeah, but not *all* of Europe is in the EU.
@@TheJesterCW at least half of it is.
@@jacencade4019 Yup, that's what I mean, it's still not *all* of Europe.
"Thats not just a plus its a GIAnt plus" Ghandi probably
No, not that one, he said something about nukes
"Hanz, thez mountains....tey 'yoodal'.....hold me Hanz"
*far off gunshoot followed by Franz going limb in Hanz's arms*
"Franz....NOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
Zey veren’t in ze mountainz, zey vere ze mountainz!
this is a documentary about how franz ferdinand REALLLY died, the serbs just covered it up for the swiss
@@theguyyourandomlyfound.8440 LMAO
Let me correct that for you.
"HANS , IN DEN BERGEN... SIE JODELN... HALT MICH HANS"
"Jodolidulidu johoho dijohoho"
"FRANZ...NNNEEEEIIIIIINNNN"
@@antraxosazrael8480 ok..yes...LMAO
You forgot when Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein.
Which time?
Twice.. we did it twice
(one day we get then)
Mythic Paper irgendwenn kiregemer die uere Fürste ;)
Ihr labert scheisse.
We did it, officially, twice. But due to no border marking and just random luck swiss soldiers end up in liechtenstein at least once a year lol
“The mountains would yodel” that is actually a great line
"The Swiss basically had a monopoly on pikes"
*silently rages in Scottish*
SILENTLY RAGES IN ANCIENT GREEK!!
Well I mean we used halberds, more so than pikes. So ye.
We have a saying in Switzerland. "We get along well because we do not understand each other"
That must be a french saying, I can't recall ever having heard that in the germanspeaking parts of our country.
That's really funny, but I guess this counts for all countries because dialects *coughs in Tirolerisch*
The Swiss building the nuke would have made them being nuketral for ever
Excuse me sir but i would like you to see yourself out
You better delete this comment before i make your disappearance the gangs next mystery
That would have been such a meme. Which countries have nukes? Ex-great European powers, the cold war superpowers, China, India and Pakistan (xdxd), a small dictatorship ruled by a madman, Israel and the Swiss.
Nice 👌
Get out
1:21
Who's that Pokémon?
It's Switzerland?
*Surprised Pikachu face*
UwU
@@rens2030 ```B E G O N E W E E B```
Rayya Aksara whats this?
Everyone: goes to wars
Switzerland: wow this is garbage u guys actually like this?
I have the ability to teleport passed down from my father and can hike mountains so if I wanted too, I could invade the Swiss for their cheese. I did grow up there after all
Thats true
More valuable information about glorious leader how could anyone apose them
Kim Jong-un actually went to school in Switzerland when he was a kid
@@Fangoros i know right
He studied in Switzerland. As a kid he wasn't in swiss as far as I know
The Swiss: Have 7 Civil Wars
The Chinese: *Raughs*
*laughs
@@solomonkirby7493 Who's gonna tell him?
@@axlr8deathpls294 ?
@@solomonkirby7493 cuz of the chinese accent the letter L is replaced by R since it sounds more akin to the chinese accent though it isnt too popular so I wont blame you for not knowing just a fun fact =)
@@axlr8deathpls294 I actually do know that, and mocking it can be considered discriminatory as there have been harmful stereotypes behind it
"zurich fightint almost the rest of switzerland" and that has not changed ever since. (my fellow swiss people will understand)
definetly not
I understand. I think… (btw vo St.Galle)
Nöd immer eifach als Zürcher
As someone who lives in Winterthur, i relate.
Person: Is the glass half full or half empty?
Switzerland: *Yes*
Stolen from Instagram.
Signed by AntiServer
The glass contains half its maximum capacity.
@@mortiferletifer2412 Peepee poopoo
Signed by ur mom xddddddd
@@Starjumper2821 No, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Switzerland: it contains half water and half air.
Gopfri stüdeli no male
Endlich her er es gmacht
Sagt man nicht "Endlich hat er es gemacht?" oder ist das Schweizerischen Deutsch?
@@AunknownMan Das ist Schweizer Deutsch
@@johannesvogler7319 eine fo der dialäkt jede kanton red chli andersch
@@antraxosazrael8480 I weiss scho I ha im afach gzeit das dass Schwizer Dütsch isch
Bis uf die ganze Schribfähler sötts äue scho Schwizerdütsch darschteue xD Himmuheilanddonnernomau! 😂
This Moment a californian guy tells you about the story of your own country and is discussung the kappel war. (I live near Kappel btw)
Ya know, this thing called the "Internet" has a lot of information that anyone anywhere can study
When you place the switz people in mountain
Switzerland: *total defense*
As a swiss, I have to say this was accurate and damn good
@ნიკა ელისაშვილი , not really, just barely bilingual (french and german(excluding english)) and unfortunately not a banker.
I could see my house.
At 8:52
No joke. The village is called randa.
That's cool
Great vid, Drew. Glad to see so many Swiss in the comments. I'm a mutt myself and not in Switzerland but I was born and raised in New Glarus, fantastic little town that carries the Swiss pride in the US
KalebAsmadi Would I be able to talk swiss german there? ^^
@@intetx Yeah! There's still a fair few folk around town who speak it well, though English is primary. If you ever visited, there are some people you'd want to meet and some places you'd want to see.
@@KalebAsmadi Verstosch du au schwizerdütsch oder nid? So Ortschafte wie New Glarus sind scho no interessant.
KalebAsmadi Im from the original Glarus in Switzerland 🇨🇭 so hey distance Cousin
*"but instead of the tree speaking, the mountain yodeling"*
that killed me lmao
Im from lucerne 😂🤘🏼🇨🇭 greetings from switzerland🇨🇭
Arian hello fellow swiss person
grüzi
gruezi
@@lepetitsuissepseudo4772 Ah, regard, un autre romand!
Hoi zämä
I'm not biased, but can you do Denmark next?
totaly not biased/20
Title: "Has Denmark always never existed?"
@@davidp2537 We're saving that for Australia.
Yeah Denmark could be really interesting, especially their rivalry with Sweden. As a half Swede half Dane history is always entertaining...in the hardcore porn way because Denmark always gets brutally fucked by the swedes.
@@apotato6278 Excuse me, what did you just say?
Am in Switzerland, can confirm everything daddy paintbrush said
Very nice video :D
Being from Switzerland it is nice to see a forgein person having a pretty good insight into our history. Liebi Grüess vo Basel am Rhyknüh 🥰🇨🇭🇺🇲
Liebo grüas vu Diepoldsau (vu da rhiinsla)
The Swiss is very Happy with this Video ❤🇨🇭
Switzerland is soo Neutral even One of Swiss State decided to be "Neutral" during sounderbund war (Swiss Civil war)
can we all get an F to thank general dufour for the extremly low casualties during the Sonderbundeskrieg?
F
Me as a Swiss guy, "heyyyy, that's pretty good."
Title: Has Switzerland Always Been Neutral?
Napoleon: Am I a joke to You?
Can you do abridged history of luxemburg?
m e h The history of Luxembourg is already abridged, like the whole of the country
It would years to explain it so no
Lolz im rn on vacation in luxemburg
Love from Switzerland drew!
Scipio Africanus **chocolate Itensifies**
This is one of the best researched presentations on Swiss History. Thank you for your work and sharing. Wish they would use a material like that in schools.
Great job on the video, you really did your research!
I love this learning videos! Keep the work up
Loved this abridged history! Keep it up!
Just little correction it wasn’t Napoleon who invade the Swiss, it was a revolutionnary gouvernment named the directoire
Me: Did Switzerland ever go to war
History: Yes but also No
I was really impress with the quality good job
Thanks for sharing some if our history!
The trees are speaking vietnamese
The snow is speaking finnish
The water is speaking german
And the mountains are yodling in swiss
To all of the people who are saying swiss is not a language, *I already know* and i have said it before
Isen't
In Swiss?😂
The water is speaking english*
@@Redshift2077 the water is speaking swamp German
@@Redshift2077 It depends on where you are. If you are on the ground you'll hear the water speaking English. If you are at sea you'll hear it speaking German instead.
Switzerland has been eating popcorn for 150 or 200 years
Edit: Thank you all for the likes :)
Second Edit: How does Switzerland have that much popcorn?
Swizerland ate 1 piece of popcorn per year
Faiz Pitsuwan-Meier That makes a lot of sense *tbh*
Popcorn!!!!! Swiss chocolate flavor!.......hmm.....is that a thing?
Sweden have not been in war for 200 years
They had chocolate popcorn.
I'm really enjoying the history series so far. ^^ Keep it up.
Awesome video!
I‘m from Switzerland myself and I have to admit this is pretty accurate! You forgot one major War against Savoy and France though that kick started the Swiss Confederation off. ;)
6:47 Switzerland is so neutral that even during a civil war some cantons stay neutral
Lol that was what I was thinking
God I love when drew does this history stuff its AMAZING!
This one stands out from the other history episodes. Keep it up!
Kaiser Willhelm II was speaking to a Swiss militiaman at a military exercise. He asked the man, “You have an army of 500,000 men, but what would you do if I brought and army of 1 million men?” The militiamen replied, “We’d all shoot twice and go home.”
You see drew I have one thing to say
Ambulance
AND missing
Excellent video, much that I didn't know about the Swiss!
This is becoming really nice
SwissAargau is gonna be really happy about this.
True
someone: you can't just watch a game and get views
drew: *observe*
*observing intensifies*
I love these history vids
This was actually the best history video you've done, I think. Really, really well made. Although, please show more of your sources; I trust you have them, just I like seeing them, it makes me happy inside :D
Love Switzerland I want to visit and I loved this video
well, if you've got the money for it (it's damn expensive) go for it, you won't be dissapointed.
I've desiphered it!!!
This video is just drew saying "in another words, I, having the swiss as my spirit county, means I had a history of playing the game and being good at it"
Quite the elaborate plan here, Drew.
Thanks for this good video ;)
thanks. intresting point of view.
Love these history videos. Ps go on the official podcast
Neutral does not equal pacifist.
I believe they shot at both sides in both world wars for not remembering their neutrality.
Actully, we shot them because it was an "aggressive neutrality", meaning that we would defend if attacked (also some plames wich appened to fly over the territory have been shot down to avoid bombing on swiss cities, wich had already happened before that)
@Markhos Finnic yeah, I didn't think that through😅
(I'm swiss, btw)
@Markhos Finnic i mean its not uncorrect to use we as a nation. Every body does that.
really nice video 😉👍👍
MOAR history with Drew please :)
We still fight each other, but with swiss memes about other regions.😅😂
Did you know that Sweden hasn't gone to war for over 200 years to. They have so much in common. Eas neutral during both world wars and traded with Germany. The also wanted to build a nuclear bomb during the cold war.
This was really good! Do one of South Africa
You got me with the mountains would yodeling.
I learned more about Switzerland in this video than In school
That joke at the end though. Definitely the best in the world
Drew thank you
With this video you basically confirmed that you will one day visit Switzerland. Make sure you do a fan meetup when you come here. :P
gurri's tech swiss bronies still exist? I saw that community burn down
Do History of China, the history where nothing happened
*Edited By the Chinese Government*
The thing in Tainanmen square that never happened
This awesome, I just visited there and saw this video and thought, How Perfect!
Hell yhea new country vid 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Why does England love tea?
Just an idea for another video drew
"We now know the Swiss aren't the secret Ingredient against Russia, maybe we'll find it one day"
We have found the secret ingredient against Russia, it's called Russia
as stalin has taught us, it is finland.
No it's the mongols.
@@theguyyourandomlyfound.8440 but Finland lost that war.
I love this tipe of videos
Europe:WWI and WWII
Switzerland:Gets popcorn and watches both wars
AND learns the enemy weakness
when your so early the mountains yodel
From a hoi soy boy viewer to a actually decent history teacher
How the times have changes
I think another reason why switzerland manages to be so neutral and rarely to never gets attacked is the amount of Troops it can still march up. Every Swiss man has to go to the military (unless excused for reason of health or believe) and after passing military, they take their gun and a pack of ammunition home. In case of war most Swiss men would be ready to fight on command and again, the alps are a huge tactical advantage, I’ve even heard that there are plans to blow up bridges, streets and so on in case of an attack
Fun fact, the Alps are full of bunkers to fall back to in case of invasion and the bridges between mountains must be high enough as to allow fighter planes to fly underneath.
So when's Lithuania getting a vid?
Next pleas the neutral giant minus Austria. (Possible Title:"Is Austria truly the polar opposite of Switzerland?")
3:52 near the middle at the back mountains you can see the outlines of the Balkans and Turkey.
Very cool video.
I would like to see one on Canada if you can muster up the courage to read about their roll in history.
drew is 99.999999 swiz person with some gud old american 0.1 procent
probably a Swiss immigrant, thats also why he has so many goldchains
Swiss profession-*neutrality*
_France_
*Im going to end this mans whole career* !
An interesting thing is that invading a nation can sometimes be more easy for weaker nations than for Strong ones.
For example France invaded italy 9 times and lost everytime, meanwhile Spain Litteraly asked to the Archduke of Tuscany to give up his throne and he just let them in his country without opposition and they didn’t even send an army .... And the year before the Austrians tried to conquer Tuscany and the Archduke defeated them . It’s incredible thinking how much relations between nations can affect wars.
Finally more abridged history!
just love the sound of your voice , you should do audiobooks :p