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Same as when they talk of Italy before the unification. See this glaring anachronism in the famous quote from The Third Man of Orson Welles:
Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
Five hundred years of peace and 'brotherly love', made us realize how terrible and cruel the wars are. Seeing the thousands of Italian, French and Austro-Hungarian soldiers dead and wounded on Italian battlefields during the Second War of Independence in 1859, a Swiss citizen created the Red Cross in 1864. Something that no 'genius' had ever thought of creating, perhaps because they were too busy on the battlefields.
Being a neutral and peaceful nation does not mean being naive and unwary.
Therefore, Switzerland has one of the most fearsome and efficient armies in the world. Even Israel's army, considered the best in the world, is based on the Swiss model.
The Latin quote 'Si vis pacem, para bellum'(in English means 'If you want peace, prepare for war) represents the guideline for defense of my country.