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> We shall disperse the Swiss Armed Forces. We have signed a treaty with the Russian Federation, in which we pay them $1B a year (less than 20% of our previous defense budget). and they promise to nuke everyone should someone invade us. We believe that renting a nuclear umbrella is a cost-effective way to maintain territorial integrity.

Does not compute.

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I don’t know if they’re naive enough to believe that they’ll nuke anyone at all for them.

Russia nor any other country won’t take the risk to be nuked in return if they’re not facing evident life-threatening events.

As a Russian I would certainly negotiate with the invader on how to split and share the invaded country.

I would say nuclear weapons in general are posthumous weapons.

I think the point of the Russian hypothetical scenario is that the government does not care anymore.

> I will not interfere in your lives in any way, neither as a tyrant nor as a friend. I will not light up the night sky, but neither will I block out the stars.

But I think the Swiss, in this hypothetical world, still misunderstood Russia's defense position.

> The only way, in which I shall “govern” is that I will take the nuclear football with me, and should we get invaded, I will nuke everyone. Not just the invading force, mind you, but literally the entire world.