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by somacert 2437 days ago
My understanding of Swiss neutrality (simplistic and very poor) is that the swiss mercenaries were too good and after they were finally defeated a ban on fielding mercenary companies was enforced and this lead naturally to the neutral stance Switzerland takes today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries

Except the pope, being the pope got to keep his.