Quote Originally Posted by ConjurerDragon View Post
You forget the militant and violent history of Switzerland.
They did not only once control the northernmost parts of nowadays northern Italy (the areas in light green and the white areas with green lining in the southeast of that map of the "Acht alte Orte"/the eight old towns as Switzerland at that time was known

but made for a short while the Duchy of Milan a swiss protectorate.
Everything in Europe has a violent history , that's kinda who we are. I wouldn't underestimate the instability in Belgium, the only thing that keeps it intact is that the Flemish dislike the Dutch more, I don't like Belgium there's this passive agression when you are from the Netherlands, if stares could kill I would be dead they really dislike Dutch people. But they don't need us to dislike eachother they are very good at hating eachother. Italy is kinda different, north and south, north is rich, south is poor