Switzerland Invades (Accidentally) | Tales From the Bottle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2020
- Switzerland is famously neutral - they don't get involved in conflict, and they would never invade another country, right? Wrong (sort of).
"Switzerland has a relatively active military due to ongoing conscription. Several incidents have occurred during routine training:
On 14 October 1968, five Swiss artillery shells accidentally hit Liechtenstein's only skiing resort, Malbun. The only recorded damages were a few chairs belonging to an outdoor restaurant.
On 26 August 1976, just before midnight, 75 members of the Swiss militia and a number of packhorses mistakenly took a wrong turn and ended up 500 meters into Liechtenstein at Iradug, in Balzers. The Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the Swiss soldiers.
On 5 December 1985, rockets fired by the Swiss Army landed in Liechtenstein, causing a forest fire in a protected area. Compensation was paid.
On 13 October 1992, following written orders, Swiss Army recruits unknowingly crossed the border and went to Triesenberg to set up an observation post. Swiss commanders had overlooked the fact that Triesenberg was not on Swiss territory. Switzerland apologized to Liechtenstein for the incident.
In March 2007, a company of 171 Swiss soldiers mistakenly entered Liechtenstein, as they were disorientated and took a wrong turn due to bad weather conditions. The troops returned to Swiss territory after they had travelled more than 2 km into the country. The Liechtenstein authorities did not discover the incursion and were informed by the Swiss after the incident. The incident was disregarded by both sides. A Liechtenstein spokesman said, "It's not like they invaded with attack helicopters. No problem, these things happen"."
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Keep up the great work man
Nice
I'm watching this from Dallas Texas USA
you might want to edit out the part after 5:13, might get the vid blacklisted in germany
You'll have to explain what facetious is to most folks there buddy. Also what kind of whiskey you drinking these days? As a trucker I tend to hit the bottle a bit when I get home in Mexico.
80 Soldiers off to war
81 Soldiers come back
Lichtenstein high command: who's this?
Soldiers: frend
Soldiers: better chef. Army food nicht gut.
Apparently that didn't happen, the guy was an officer from Austria (their ally) who accompanied them home before returning to austria
@Linfrey dont be stupid now
@Linfrey The story was that an italian joined the army while they were there, which wasn't what happened. They still had an 80 person army at the end
@Linfrey the storie is that an Italian dude joined theichtenstein army. However in reality it was an Austria officer who ACCOMPANIED then home and then returned back to Austria.
Man I hate accidentally invading another country, every time man.
Name checks out.
I can relate
Said Germany to Poland after WW II
Why would we want to invade Lichtenstein? It's *Lichtenstein*
especially pak and china invading india over the freaking himalayas XDDD
From experience I can ensure you that if a Swiss soldier was offered a drink he took it before he left.
Sure
Thats true im from swizerland
I’d do that
Offering an army a drink when you don't know why they're in your town is probably a good idea
@@rflanaganagan8489 yep can be the person who kills u but just offer them a drink before they kill u.
"Wtf is that?" "Just the Swiss, they turn up from time to time, ignore them they'll go away"
Oof
Switzerland: Babe its 4pm time for your invasion.
Lichtenstein: Yes dear.
Lichtenstein simping for Switzerland
Qxir lol
I mean yes!
DAMN IT! I'VE BEEN CONDITIONED!
Yes daddy
switzerland onlyfans
Neutrality BY FORCE.
I say the whole world must know of our peaceful ways... by force!
"Peace through superior firepower"
what do we do when they dont like tolerance? tolerance, BY FORCE.
Uf you conquer everyone than you are the most neutral in the world
Armed neutrality
Fun story: When iserved in the swiss army we were in a maneuvre with our platoon. We were tasked to quickly mount our Piranha 8x8 LAV's and deploy further north. We drove through the french speaking part of switzerland, along the french border, when our LAV's commander ordered a wrong turn in a roundabout. After this roundabout there was no other option as to drive up to the french border custom. Since we were 9 people in foreign uniform, this counted as an attempted invasion of france, and the french army showed up to investigate. We had a good laugh with them after explaining that our seargeant was just bad at reading maps.
It surprizes me that the French didn't surrender when they saw you.
oh dude.. i just say amba centro geneva.. dont know how often we`re ended up in france, becaus we miss the exit of the highway on swiss side XD
Add to that the number of times Swiss soldiers "invaded" Italy while sitting in a train travelling from Valais to Tessin. (this happened every year and Italian custom's officers were both irate and confused)
@@hjalmar4565 😂😂😂😂
Niall Macpherson driving through Domodossola (Italy) when going from Ticino (CH) to Vallais (CH) or vice versa is allowed as long as you have the right permission. I served in Vallais and some years later in Ticino and had 1-2 soldiers crossing Italy every weekend (if I remember right, they were however not allowed to cross Italy with their rifles, just Tenu A).
Always wondered what the reactions of the Italians were if they saw the Swiss soldiers in uniform in their trains, but the soldiers did nothing wrong. Greetings.
Proud Swiss traditions:
"Chocolate making"
"Clockwork"
"Banking"
"Invading Lichtenstein"
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Imagine, your a cadet right out of training. Its your first mission and command accidentally has you and your buddies perform a small scale invasion upon a neighboring country. Mondays, am i right?
That IS the training hahahah
Observation posts are the best way to take a nap tbh
@@hennibbale yeah lol
German speaking countries have problems with that all the time
I was a recruit in the Swiss army about a year ago. The first thing I learned was that it's really unorganized. So it's no surprise to me that we accidentally invaded Liechtenstein that many times.
@@smirovich As a retired swiss army "soldier" I can confirm that. Tbh our army is a joke. There was even a national discussion about disbanding the army a few years ago. While having an army in theory might be a good thing, I found it amusing/confusing how fiery our right/conservative wing defended our great, modern, high tech army.
As a soldier in the swiss army I can confirm, that a lot of our troops are unable to read maps correclty (including officiers of rank). An example would be when we were on a march and got lost on a hill in the middle of nowhere at 2am. It actually surprises me that we have not invaded Lichtenstein more.
I guess that alot of them have been stopped by border signs.
@@strider04 just dont accidently stumble into a US base please as an american im telling you dont give them an excuse
The possibility of that happening is relatively high since u dumb fucks have those installed across the whole globe in almost every country. GL with loosing against China btw. Switzerland remains neutral on this, no excuses needed.
Lol isch mengisch eh chaote truppe.
@@phillipwombacher9635 mate i am an American and as one that believes in, our troops i can tell you that they dont shoot on sight
There is a train that goes from Zürich, Switzerland to Paris and stops in Basel, Switzerland. A lot of swiss soldiers can go home for the weekends and often do so by train as it's free for them. There have been multiple occasions where a swiss soldier took that train to get to Basel on the way home and fell asleep, just to be rudely awakened by armed Frenchmen somewhere in France. So technically, Switzerland also accidentally invaded France with a one-man army. As there are a lot more train routes that leave Switzerland, and there are lots of tired soldiers traveling by train, we probably "invaded" every neighboring country at some point...
The only beautiful thing in Zürich is the sign to St.Gallen
You’d have thought the French would’ve immediately surrendered instead of sending a squad of armed frenchmen
We had a guy who lived in Germany in my recruit school. He drove home in uniform at the weekends for weeks until someone realized that he was technically invading Germany every time.
The Geneva convention states that everything from 3 uniformed military personnel is a declaration of war. So just one soldier is just a really really expensive upsi!
@@arroe8386 We'll use this as an excuse when the time has come.
I served in the Swiss Army. On one occasion we got coordinates for our observation post, which were inside France. We then asked for confirmation that we're supposed to invade France. They then realized that there had been a typo, something like 174 instead of 147 or something. These kind of mistakes can happen...
But what if they comfirmed that you were supposed to invade France
@@Niko-xt5bs Then - I guess - we invade France! But if such a plan existed, then I suppose we would have heard about the tensions between the countries and that war might break out any moment...
@@andreasferenczi7613 "Then I guess we invade France!" has me cackling. XDDD
At this point I get the impression that someone at high command is dicking everyone around with these little errors to just see how far they can push it.
What if they replied "Yeah give them hell boys"
Switzerland is basically that one student that accidentally goes into the wrong classroom
And pass the class
They sure as shit don't wander into German class
3 times and always in the same one
@Night Watcher - KFP operative 'Dark Sun' sounds smart asf ngl
@@stonebrick-uc4ns yeah, because to the other countries there are actual borders
Switzerland:
*Breaks into Lichtenstein's house*
Also Switzerland:
*Sorry! ... Cloudy night huh?*
No. They leave a piece of paper in front of the door and Liechtenstein asks itself if someone was inside
We (the Swiss) also accidentally "invaded" Italy and France on several occasions. Due to the borders being in the mountains and the inability of some officers to read maps, there is an incident like every odd year😂
A friend of mine was part of such an invasion of Northern Italy. It must be a very embarrassing moment realizing you crossed the border fully equipped for war😅
#justswissarmythings
Gren? 😇
C'est un véritableux affront
Yep i went to italy fully armed while on service
@John Macmillan there is a saying in swiss military that most dangerous thing in thr army is an officer with a map
Young kid: "DAD! An Army is invading us!!"
Dad: "No thats just the Swiss Army, there just lost again. Poor blokes."
The best comment.
Haha
When the quiet kid finally decides to attack and then says its an accident.
“When the quiet kid” jokes are so bad
@@user-db8lj6wt7z ikr just wanted to do it cuz I was gonna be the first one to do it on this video
Za wardo
@@user-db8lj6wt7z
This guy has a stick up his ass
@@user-db8lj6wt7z coming from a guy with "eat poop" as a name
“The time has come again” **Fatherland intensifies**
*VATERLAND
I ALREADY BOUGHT HOI4.
@@Aaronomus obviously they were well organised, they are Germans after all.
But seriously the political leadership was the bad part the army was mostly staffed by members of the imperial and republican armies before the Nazi army, they were trained in the same way as the 2 previous armies. Please don't conflate Nazi dictatorship with everything of that era in Germany.
Flavius Belisarius the Swiss army is bigger than Germany’s nowadays which is funny and sad
Switzerland unifies the German people?????? Switzerland is NSSAP???????? (National Socialist Schweizer Arbeiter Partei)
Imagine that one time Switzerland decides to actually invade Liechtenstein on purpose and the locals will just laugh "oh how cute they're doing it again" and welcome them with cookies and when they notice what happened it's already too late.
Ukraine 1941
Stop giving then ideas!
Oh that sounds like a fun idea lets go to it after we finish oir chocolate
What do you think the plan was all along?
"Special Military Operation."
Ah yes the last combat report: Casualty ratio: -1.25%
“Oops, We accidentally invaded Liechtenstein again”
-Switzerland
There probably is a proper procedure by now for when it happens again.
"Do we have any more forms 23a? You know, the one we have to fill out when we accidentially take over another country?"
@@SangerZonvolt Britain needs more of these xD
@@xiroh1369 “accidentally” conquering half the world
Yep
Liechtenstein: "Jah? What is up with all the troops, neighbor?"
Switzerland: "errr... ummm... Haben ein cup of sugar we can borrow?"
I like how accurate this is because Swiss/German people will literally speak in halb Deutsch und halb Englisch
@Danny | Aka denglisch.
@@throwaway80345 is that a real thing?
@@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee not that I would know 🤷♂️or i might misunderstood in what context you meant it
@@zackoz2202 It's a term for using German with a lot of anglicisms or for using german words, while speaking English, in case you haven't learned your vocabulary
When he says ‘marched a couple of kilometres into Lichtenstein’ that could also be interpreted as ‘marched halfway through the damn country’
I was once stationed in the army near Liechtenstein for my annual refresher course. The drivers were all informed about the roads leading to Liechtenstein. They had to take detours to avoid entering Liechtenstein. Also during marches, they paid close attention to the turn-offs to make sure that you did not get to Liechtenstein by mistake. It is sometimes a matter of metres.
and just like any older brother when they do something to the younger brother they say its an accident
Well no one's allowed to hit my little brother; besides me!
This is accurate.
@@Hanzo1990 this hurts to hear, as a little brother...
Ooh I just hate it when the Swiss accidentally invade
I once had training near the border of Germany. Me and my group needed to set up a Radio in a Forrest.
After some time marching we heard a loud megaphone yelling who tf we are. 5 minutes later the German police came. We explained everything and the officers was pretty chill about everything. Even had a beer with them after that.
we actualy also invaded France for error some years ago, that's what happen when you give to a bunch of 18yo weapons and make them do stuff using very old radio equipment and technology :P
A map is still a map, you can’t blame the technology, they’re just bad at it...
@@generalpatton8890 Must have been some butter bars, bro. It happens waaaay to often and the troops end up black on water while the sgts end up getting everyone back lol
My dad and his troop invaded France once
Everything changed, when the Swiss nation attacked
Only the germany could have stopped it. But as Europe needed it the most
Germany vanished.
Uh, something something anime reference!
@@RuleroftheSandcastle avatar the last airbender, also it isn't an anime tho
@@mham42 avatar the lat airbender is a anime actually
More like "Everything stayed the same, when the Swiss nation attacked"
"Ze time has come again..."
* Plays Germany's Anthem *
old anthem
Well, current anthem, but the part too easy to misunderstand
@@Germanwtb the part the Anti German government made illegal
i could not stop laughing when he made that joke
@@wilhelm__3713 not illegal just not official
Switzerland "accidentally" invaded Germany a few dozen times, too. A few decades ago, being stationed in the border region, shortcuts over German territory were common.
Angry Leopard 2 noises
@@melter3098 Both sides have them.
I live in Liechtenstein, Ruggell to be specific, and I can confirm that the prince is indeed, a Lich King
please dont kick me out of the country Adam, Im sorry ! :(
XD
i met your prince once on the national day, he was pretty drunk but cool guy
I‘ve commanded a tank in Switzerland, and we accidentally went over the border in France on one occasion, since it wasn‘t marked well. This technically counts as an invasion. Fortunately nobody watched, so not even my higher-ups noticed. Hehe
I wonder what the statute of limitations is on accidentally invading france?
France is used to tanks
France has been conditioned to like it? I won't kink shame.
Have you gone through Belgium again?)
"Mom says it's my turn to start a 1000 year reich"
hey, it's 739 years this summer, we're almost 3/4 there
"...and had to pay out millions of franks to cover the damages."
Well, good thing they have all those banks.
Lichtenstein, as our little brother, has lots of banks too ;)
I think some Swiss army men also once trespassed onto French territory. The troops were sent back immediately while the officers were brought to Paris where they had to apologise and explain themselves. They could return afterwards as well.
A friend of mine was training for several months near the french border. During his stay, he went three times into France. Each time, the local police just lead them back to Switzerland with the following advice : don't report anything or we all gonna have a lot of paperwork to do.
@@tchetchnet Thats the spirit! Why make every mistake official?
@@tchetchnet I feel like that happened so often that the local police already tired of it
Switzerland: ok. My turn.
Kim Il Sung: Okay my turn **Attacks South Korea**
"i thought we were playing monopoly."
happens to the best of us
Lmao
Even Germany
Yeah we all do mistakes
When I was in the Swiss Army. I received a call from the German Police that a heavy armed group of mine invaded Germany by putting up cable for communication through Germany.
I love imagining all of these events as interactions between brothers where the big brother keeps messing up and having to apologise. "Oh man, my rockets hit your forest?! Dude, I'm sorry, please don't get upset, here, it's a hundred bucks don't tell Mom"
Well, in fact we invaded Liechtenstein at least one more time. In summer 2019, I was in the first vehciule of a small convoy an the officer give me the order to take a road wich wasn't the good one... xD
Jo hainamol wo hät eure Kommandant de kopf ka?
There were probably more of those but Switzerland knew that Lichtenstein hadn't noticed so they just pretended it didn't happen.
@@ooooneeee they drive directly and straight throgh my village if they take the bad/wrong street. They train (Luziensteig training facility) close to liechtenstein and there are 2 ways back home. One is good. And the second one is trough liechtenstein (Balzers)...
Sounds like they just need a big "Haha You're stupid" sign followed with a "U-turn permitted" sign.
😂🤣😂🤣
Its actually very cool they have that kind of relationship.
I love how their army just accepts a random Italian dude to join their army.
Note: The German army has units specially trained for mountainous terrain.
The Swiss Army has none trained for flat ground.
They'd be at a disadvantage a few kilometers in.
When I was stationed in the Grison, it was too long to go home on short live. So I did climb some mountain near the barack (in uniform of course). Tourists: so you are one of the famous _Gebirgsinfanterie_ , are you? Me: no, I'm only a tank driver, and our tanks are parked at the pass (something like 2500 Meters) !
@@marcmonnerat4850Hinterrhein :)
Funny enogh I accidently almost "invaded" lichtenstein by accident with my squad when I was a sgt in the swiss army. There isn't realy a border but just some small sign saying like "Welcome to Lichtenstein" or something like that so it's easy to overlook.
Aber ma gseht scho de Rhein wo dure goht oder, hend Sie de nöd gseh der Rhein?
@@Sh4d891 Zwischen St. Luzisteig GR und Balzers FL fliesst kein Rhein. ;)
@@oschiri66 Yeah, that's the obvious answer, but I would also be very surprised if every 18 year old swiss recruit would know that the rhine is the border to Liechtenstein for some time
@@arroe8386 Well, there are giant flagpoles and signs on all Rhine bridges. So if they aren't wearing dark sunglasses in the nightly fog, they do see. Most of these little occurances happened on the land border between GR and FL. As soon as you leave the only main road, the border is really hard to identify. Switzerland and Liechtenstein even exchanged land there (Ellhorn), so even as a local civilian, I can't always say in which country I am, when I'm hiking through the forests.
@@oschiri66 yeah, there is a Liechtenstein flag at the street bridges, not really at pedestrian bridges as far as I know. But I think you're overestimating the intelligence of some 18 year old recruits from the other end of the country if you think they realize that there is a significant difference between the flag of canton St. Gallen on one side and the flag of Liechtenstein on the other side 😅😂
I was a soldier in Switzerland this year (we got drafted because of corona, infantery Battalion 91/2) and i was stationed in the HQ from which we "accidentally" invaded liechtenstein. ^^
To be fair. There is a road straight to liechtenstein. And the training ground is DIRECTLY next to the boarder / said road. So if you wanto to "flank" the enemy in training and wander off just a few hundred meters too far, you're already in liechtenstein.
Funny enough they told us about 20 times to NOT DO THAT (again) haha
And let me add about the germans: our army is actually bigger than theirs as of 2020. Thats really true - look it up :D (to be fair, we are a militia tough).
Also, where civilian service takes place, don't you keep your service rifles after the year of service? If so, then the population also stands as a safeguard against invasion. Niccolo Machiavelli mentioned then the endurance and strength of the Swiss military. Thanks for the Victorinox/Wenger tools, though haven't had need of the messenger hook/hay bale carrier. :)
@@Player_Review Well yes. Everybody who ever joined the swiss army (which is around 80% of the male population) get to keep their service rifle at home and MUST (by law) visit the shooting range at least once a year to keep up their shooting skills. During especialy dangerous times, we even get issued some ammo to take home in case we get overrun by the enemy (obviously not a danger rn and this hasn't happened since i was born, but it has happened before).
I actually have a SIG STGW 90 at home. Beautiful weapon, highly accurate and very easy to clean. The only downside is you have to clean it after every 60 - 100 rounds fired.
Oh and victorinox is best ;)
@@iamyourfan9729 is that the only gun you have, i know that Switzerland has some of the best gun laws.
@@strider04 oh yes we have
Switzerland having an army is like a church having a brothel
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Many intrusions happen during military exercises. Me and my officer cadets went over the bridge to Liechtenstein to avoid enemy markers on the Swiss side. Went back to Switzerland on the next bridge, job done. Same happened with France or Germany border to friends.. we're patrolling our borders, they don’t
When I served in the Swiss Army one of our mortars had a wrong evelation and almost hit our shooting guards at a mountain pass above our target. They heard the shell coming in and fell to the ground for cover immediately. No one was hurt, luckily. No wonder we shelled Liechtenstein accidentally.
That sounds exactly like the Swiss military, having served quite some time there
As a swiss citizen i find this video entertaining af 😂
As a German, me too :D I´m glad some people can laugh at Germany now, instead of having annger against us. I mean come on. Thats nearly 80 years done by now.
the comment threads are better! so many swiss coming foward with their stories hahaha
I was stationed close to the Lichtenstein border.
This happened all the time because we were all to stupid to read maps.
No GPS or Google back then. Just a paper map and a compass.
So we got lost in the woods all the damn time.
When you accidentally press the invade button instead of trading
5:01 "Eckart, die Schweizer sind da!"
switzerland also invades france every now and then. soldiers going for beers on the wrong side and realising it when the bill comes in euro
Nobody:
Switzerland: *Return to castle Liechtenstein*
Fun fact, Castle Liechtenstein is located in Austria (the castle gave its name to the Family who eventually gave their name to what is now Liechtenstein) but based on the video and comment section, the Swiss Army "accidentally" invading Austria too seems quite likely.
Switzerland: *Invades liechenstein by accident and possibly killed people*
Also Switzerland: accident vro :)
Master Oogway: The are no mistakes!
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Sampogii He did say multiple times that there were no casualties so...
We don't do mistakes. We only have happy accidents.
@@kippari2622 well the person the put the emojis is a mistake
Most likely they didn‘t even carry ammo. And, no, there’s no joke hidden in there.
You really have a gift for storytelling man
I'm glad you think so :)
I'm an ex-sergent of the swiss army and in one occasion, with my unit, I have invaded Germany for about one hour.
We were undecided whether to declare war or change the soldier reading the map and come back in Switzerland 😁
Luckily it was night and we were far from inhabited centers, so no one noticed anything.
Err, Seems like a lot of people are sharing the same experience in the comments. Do you Swiss have trouble with maps or something?
@@jm6456
Navigating in the mountains using nothing but maps is hard
Even modern GPS is rather shite and u its need to be trained to live without such in case of an emp frying their equipment
Three years ago I was a soldier in the Swiss infantry, and for a few months we stayed in a barracks near the border with Lichtenstein in the mountains. By mistake we invaded it several times because the borders are not very clear and the exercises took place in the woods often even at night. Sometimes it also happened to enter by mistake with armored vehicles. Most of the time no one finds out, but there are at least a couple of unwanted invasions every year.
The US has also “accidentally” bomber Switzerland before and Switzerland has also shot down allied bombers with German aircraft.
They also took action at times against WW2 Germany aircraft in their airspace, but mainly it was an issue with the Allied/Western forces and air defense was not always consistent throughout those years.
Well Switzerland was bombed more than once - a few times definitely by accident, some other times... by 'Accident'. But as for Planes being shot down by the Swiss Airforce - It seems they only ever shot down german Planes - the rest was forced to leave or land, which allied troops sometimes welcomed because their planes were damaged, and being captured in Germany or Italy would have been worse than being arrested by the swiss. Also they did not only fly Messerschmitt, but also Morane-Saulniers from France. And it is kind of obvious, that they did not fly something like Supermarines or North Americans - because they simply could not get them.
yeah they protetctet there airspace
those weren't accidents tho
I think it was later revealed that they did it on purpose in an attempt to bully the Swiss into joining the war on their side. They then realized that it would just make them sympathize more with the Germans than with the assholes that are bombing them, so they stopped.
Funny how youtube is recommending this currently
a common thing that happens in Switzerland is recruits fall asleep on the express train to Airolo. the Train is an ICE from Germany that travels to Italy. there have been many occasions of Swiss soldiers with rifle and uniform falling asleep, missing the stop and ending up in Italy. its gotten to the point the italian Caribinieri have a system in place now where they ring up the company commander in Airolo and organisze Swiss MPs to meet the Caribinieri and the Swiss soldier at the Italian border to pick him up.
I have also once had to chase down a Swiss train through a good chunk of Switzerland because a recruit forgot his rifle on the train
Switzerland: "l apologize."
Canada: "Is that you, my long lost brother? 😲"
1:47 That's... scary. like, its almost the same recommended videos
no ??! I don't get what you mean
@@schngstbrmisteryytlore8584 uh... I meant almost the same as my recommended videos.
I feel like a lot of people who watch Qxir's tales from the bottle probably also watch Count Dankula's Absolute Mad Lads. And if they don't, they definitely should
@@Timbobjr agreed
@@Timbobjr I watched it in the past but his accent is really hard for me to casually understand I can't do anything else when I watch him cause I have to concentrate on what he's talking
I enjoy qxir shipping two countries
that reminded me of countryhumans🤢
Oh goddamn
My eyes! my eyes!
@@pierresihite8854 what are you talking about? Is it better not to know?
We also have barracks very close to the french border, leading into several incursion (always by mistake) in France, some of which even included tanks.
I was in the Swiss military and we were actually jokingly told that if we ever walk into Lichtenstein in uniform, we will have already successfully invaded it lol.
On the other hand, another thing being told was that if there ever was a a war between us and Lichtenstein, they would have to pull up with their (arguably) strong fireforce to fight :D
There is an old saying they have in Germany, regarding the part of the video about Germany and it reads:
"Wir singen diesen Teil der Hymne nicht!"
I think using any stanza of our national anthem along with WW2 pictures is very misplaced. The song originates from the Vormärz before the revolution of 1848 and is thus way older than the Nazis. Hitler misused the first stanza and you should not be doing the same in your video. After all, you'd also not show pictures of Confederates in the American Civil War and overlay it with the Star Spangled Banner.
*navigator looking at map*
navigator: sir... i think we're in liechtenstein...
platoon CO: what do you mean?
navigator: i think we've accidentally invaded liechtenstein sir
platoon CO: again?!
As a German living in Switzerland this video just made me rolling on the floor laughing. 🤣
Swiss generals were quite the pranksters
fun fact: Switzerland does not usually have generals - only in times of war one is appointed.
6:23 why is there blood on your shirt?
Its his time of the month, due
He accidently invaded some small country
That's pizza
Nah, it's pasta sauce!
I think it has a pasta sauce pattern printed on it. Next best thing to pre-pissed blue jeans.
"You can only perform an accident 1 time"... NOT THE SWISS ARMY😅
No, I'm Swiss and someone recommended this video!
As to what Lichtenstein literally means: Licht = light ;(etwas) lichten = (to) lighten (something); Stein = stone
So Lichtenstein would either mean lightstone or lightendstone depending on the intentionality of the "en".
“What the hell is a Liechtenstein?”
Me: *panics in Hetalia*
Oh remeber the faceless people one, i love how they have a literal neutrality force field.
Lichtenstein pretty much amounts to a highly autonomous canton tbh, of course they dont mind if the army that protects them, accidentally cross in during pacetime, they dont mind swiss border guards checking their border, dont mind using our currency and all the rest, Lichtenstein is highly integrated to Switzerland 😂
They may as well simply become a Swiss Protectorate they are close enough to being one as it is
@@dasy2k1 they are 😂
Running out of content? Heheh, no sir. Currently rocking whole Tales From The Bottle playlist, 26/90 now, plenty more to cover . :D :D Great content!
I can only imagine the Swiss Army doing the "We will Rock You" dance while marching into Liechtenstein
To be honest, as a Swiss Person, I also think that's plausible.
As an English person, I openly accept the little Irish brother next to us because of your videos.
Greetings from Liechtenstein!🇱🇮
Been watching your content periodically for about a year, recently subscribed, now binge watching. I'm a viewer from the future on this video. Keep it up.
Your channel is amazing. I have been watching all of your vids over the last few days. Your going to blow up man!
Your videos are the best Qxir. Thanks for what you do.
No hint of a lie, these weekly uploads is becoming a highlight of my week.
Litterally found your page 2 days ago, binge watched everything, and now I’m subbed to the second channel too! Great videos man
4:55 is the best part.
Everybody:*Declares war on each other*
Switzerland:*Eats and drinks chocolate*
Also Switzerland:oh oh i accidentally invaded lichenstein
Loving the videos buddy!
I just realized I watched every single one of your videos. Thank you very much for all these! Very helpful for someone living a currently extremely boring life. Very interesting and entertaining.
I was in the Swiss army and believe me, there were many more incidents than that. There's a narrow road that leads out of a military training area right into Liechtenstein and the last opportunity to turn around isn't obvious. The next opportunity is in Liechtenstein itself and troops often miss the last road. Probably happens every year.
This guy makes such high quality content. I can’t believe he doesn’t have more subscribers.
Liechtenstein: Help Step-Country im stuck.
Switzerland:
TH-cam recommends your videos. Sometimes I mistakenly select them and I just let it roll. Never disappointed I did.
man , your videos are really good! ive seen almost all of them! nice work!
Beside the fact that all these "invasions" have been nothing but taking a wrong turn at a cross section and walking 1 km too far, how can it be an "invasion" if they're responsible for guarding it?😂
The story where the Lichtenstein Army took no casualties and made a friend is one of my favorite.
Thx dude forgot about qxir2. Honestly love ur vids when im in a down spirit . Thx for your hard work.
I’ve already watched all your videos I’m just watching again because there so damn good
The definition of double-landlocked is not the surrounding areas around you are land locked it's that you have absolutely no access to the ocean via river, for example Switzerland has a merchant ship fleet of tens of vessels and has ocean access because of a river that goes through it so while it is geographically landlocked it can still reach the ocean whilst Lichtenstein cannot because there are no ocean-going rivers that go through it.
@DerOldHerr nope, between the bodensee and the shipable part of the rhein are some waterfalls ("Rheinfälle") wich you dont want to ride a boat on.