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It is obviously at the core of the two world wars, but it can "retreat from the whole body" and has maintained a record of no war for more than 200 years.
This is a magical country, a country that can truly enjoy peace, even if the whole world is shrouded in the shadow of the possibility of three wars, it dares to say: no one dares to fight me!
This issue depends on the content to comprehensively analyze, where does the country's confidence come from?
Today, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is still ongoing, so many people are always worried about when the third world war will break out? And the third world war also means that it will be a nuclear war that "destroys the world and destroys the earth".
If World War III does break out, which country do you think will be the safest?
According to common sense, under the influence of nuclear weapons, the safest countries should be those that are indisputable and far from right and wrong, or those that are remote and material-scarce.
Some think Iceland has the highest global peace index, some think it's remote New Zealand, others think it's the isolated island of Fiji, or Denmark has Greenland.
But the safest country we are talking about today is not Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand, or a remote island country.
Iceland
If you look at the map of the European Union, you may see that there is one country in an extremely awkward location that always seems out of place.
It is located in the middle of Europe, surrounded by France, Germany, Austria and Italy, but it is very "out of place", it does not join either the European Union or NATO, and did not join the United Nations until 2002.
The country that is so unique and different is Switzerland, which has always remained neutral.
Switzerland is shown in red in the picture
Switzerland's neighbors, all restless masters, have historically been extremely aggressive countries, but Switzerland can stand alone and not "join in" with it.
Even for more than 200 years, Switzerland has not fought a war, and in both world wars, it was clearly at the heart of the war, but it was still protected from the ravages of war.
Switzerland is so stable and safe that we think it is not afraid of World War III and is the safest country in the world.
But is this peace and security in Switzerland just because of their statement of neutrality?
I think there are at least three reasons why Switzerland is very safe.
Two mountains – natural barriers
Geographically, south of Switzerland lies Europe's tallest Alps, which occupies almost 60% of Switzerland's territory and is of great geopolitical importance to Switzerland.
The Alps start off the southern coast of France, cross Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and northern Italy, and follow Slovenia to the Adriatic Sea. The straight line is about 1,200 kilometers long, with an average altitude of about 3,000 meters.
The Alps act as a natural barrier to the south of Switzerland, separating it from Italy, Austria and other countries.
To the west and north of Switzerland are the Jura Mountains, also known as the Jura Mountains, an arc-shaped mountain range about 360 km long.
Although the Jura Mountains are not as tall as the Alps, they are enough to separate Switzerland from France, creating an impassable natural border between Switzerland and France.
This "two-mountain advantage" also makes Switzerland easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Between the two mountain ranges is the plateau in central Switzerland, which covers about 30% of Switzerland and has a rolling terrain with hills interspersed with partially flat areas.
There are also numerous rivers and lakes among them, such as the main rivers such as the Aare, Sarin and Rhine, as well as Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchâtel, Lake Zurich and Lake Constance.
Lake Geneva, located on the border between France and Switzerland, is the largest lake in Western Europe, with an area of about 580 square kilometers.
This makes the Swiss Plateau the most densely populated region in Switzerland, where Switzerland's major cities are located, and are important economic and transportation centers.
Numerous nuclear bunkers - "national fortresses"
Although God has given Switzerland such an innate geographical advantage that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, its neighbors are all "jackals, tigers and leopards".
As early as the 1880s, the Swiss government began to formulate relevant defense plans and countermeasures against the enemy, and the "National Fortress" plan was born.
Especially during World War II, in response to the threat of invasion from Nazi Germany, Switzerland once again expanded and perfected their fortifications and took full advantage of the natural geography of the Alps.
High in the Alps, Switzerland has built more than 26,000 underground bunkers and fortifications, from anti-tank guns to anti-aircraft or machine-gun nests.
At a glance, you think that this is just a simple stone, but in fact it is really an anti-tank gun.
There are also these two buildings that look like barns, but in fact the left one is a machine gun nest, and the right one is an anti-tank gun.
It is worth mentioning that there are underground tunnels under the ground of the two of them, which can be connected through underground tunnels in wartime.
In addition to camouflage facilities in the Alps, there are many shelters and underground bunkers throughout Switzerland.
It can be said that Switzerland is the only country in the world today with enough nuclear radiation shelters to accommodate the entire population, and the coverage of bunker shelters is extremely high, and it has the most bomb shelters per capita.
Even the United States cannot match the rigor of defense against nuclear war.
According to statistics, there are as many as many in Switzerland today.
According to 2021 statistics, Switzerland's total population is only 8.738 million, but its bomb shelter coverage is as high as 114%.
This means that even if there is a large influx of refugees into Switzerland during wartime, it still has enough shelter for these refugees.
According to Swiss law, every house built after 1978 must be equipped with an underground nuclear shelter, and every Swiss citizen has an average underground bunker of about 1 square meter.
These shelters also need to be able to withstand the enormous power of a 12-megaton nuclear explosion from an altitude of more than 700 meters.
This means that the whole country of Switzerland is like a huge booby trap and at the same time an impregnable castle in the middle of Europe.
All the people are soldiers and armed neutrality
In peacetime, although Switzerland does not have a standing army, it has the same compulsory military system as South Korea, Israel and other countries.
Men aged 20-25 and in good health are required to perform military service, while women can choose to enlist voluntarily.
After being drafted, Swiss recruits undergo 17 weeks of basic military training, after which they are required to go to the army in 3 stages until you are 50 years old, and even allowed to keep their rifles at home after they are discharged.
Under such a military service system, Switzerland does not seem to have a regular army on the surface, but in fact, Switzerland is full of militias, and it is a country where "all the people are soldiers".
In 1815, Switzerland promulgated its first national constitution, which formally established "all the people as soldiers" and "armed neutrality" as the basic national defense policy.
Today, the Swiss army has only 220,000 men, including 80,000 reservists and 20,000 cadets, but their main duty is to defend territory and prevent terrorism.
They will never take the initiative to participate in external disputes, let alone invade other countries, but they will not participate in international peacekeeping missions.
Although Switzerland retains only 3,500 professional soldiers in peacetime, in the event of an emergency, Switzerland can mobilize more than 350,000 formally trained militias to participate in the war within 48 hours.
In addition to the "soldiers", every road, bridge, tunnel and railway in Switzerland has been covered in a special way, so that in wartime, it can be easily destroyed by long-range bombing and hinder the invaders in transportation.
Even in the mountains of Switzerland, there are many tipping points, and when these mountains are detonated, they can instantly cause landslides to block the road.
How, I was so hard that I blew myself up. Because one of the military strategies adopted by Switzerland is to directly abandon the city in case of emergency, retreat the entire army to the Alpine region, take advantage of the Alps, condescendingly, and strike at the enemy.
At this time, those camouflage facilities in the Alps began to come in handy, and who would dare to provoke such a country?
In summary, such a Switzerland is not only in terms of natural geographical location, but also in terms of military defense, it is enough to be called the safest country in the world, and it is a "national fortress" in the true sense.
Now that you know Swiss banks, why would you dare to claim to be the "safest bank in the world"?