> Switzerland didn't get wealthy by being easy to invade. Yeah, back before modern missiles, satellites, fighter jets, and drones. Back when the physical stora

> Switzerland didn't get wealthy by being easy to invade. Yeah, back before modern missiles, satellites, fighter jets, and drones. Back when the physical storage of gold was economically significant. Back before technological infrastructure started creating outsized productivity. In the modern day, what actually creates and protects Switzerland's way of life is their economic and political connections to their neighbors. > We can be aggressive imperialists Repeat after me: Ukraine wanting to join the US economic empire is not aggression. Ukraine wanting to join NATO to protect themselves from Russia is not aggression. Now write it on the blackboard 100 times. > if you threaten the bear it will still claw your eyes out More like when the bear occasionally comes out of the woods and wanders into yards, it will be tolerated. When the bear starts routinely posing a danger to humans, the bear will be shot. > Destroying western Ukraine ("demilitarising") as a viable functioning state also renders it much less useful to the west I agree this has become their open goal. Russia failed at stealing it, so they'll try to destroy it and kill everyone living there. Ultimately the more Russia destroys, the larger Ukraine's IMF loans and other foreign indebtedness will be. That indeed disgusts me, but not as much as genocide.