In terms of high-level/long-term/average geopolitics and country culture/vibe, I would say that Switzerland🇨🇭 and America 🇺🇸 are my two favorite countries, in no particular order. Rose-tinted and selective, but nevertheless, my thoughts: Switzerland, a neutral country, will host and pay for peace talks and facilitate negotiations, they will host countries with high tensions, perhaps on the brink of war and offer that they come and talk in a beautiful hotel like above Lake Lucerne. The country is beautiful, and peaceful and prosperous, relatively free and generally/historically classically liberal and highly democratic and with a strong culture of compromise, diplomacy, negotiation, peace and neutrality, and understanding. I like to imagine that hopefully this kind of thing rubs off on the leaders/politicians who visit and do their negotiations and shows them what could be possible if things were perhaps more Swiss, at least in those ways. But Switzerland is small, it is not very capable of fighting off an aggressor or a threat offensively, but it is still extremely good at defending itself, both militarily, as well as psychologically/culturally/diplomatically. America, more interventionist, but often reluctantly so, stands very strong and firm with its values of freedom, democracy and peace, unironically, and it will underwrite them. America actively supports and defends people and countries who share in its values, through migration and asylum, diplomacy and negotiation, other forms of political and economic support, and if it really has to, it will come and fight. And when it comes and it fights, it will finish the job and completely destroy the aggressor where it thinks it needs to, as it did in the case of Germany and Japan in WW2. And once it’s done that, it will help to rebuild and invest and support, and then it will leave, or stay when asked. Most Americans did not want to fight in WW2 after what happened in WW1, their hand was forced when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Later the South Koreans where being attacked and invaded from the North and they desperately asked America for help, eventually, reluctantly again, America came in and helped push the North Koreans back past Soul to where the border is now. Living in Switzerland having moved from South Africa, I am very grateful for what America did in the 1930s/40s, throughout the Cold War, even to an extent today with NATO and its military presence in Europe. Even more now with X and Elon and Trump. And at the same time, I am extremely grateful for what Switzerland is and pretty much always has been, and the peace and negotiations and discussions it actively encourages and facilitates, and that it is neutral and almost like a safe space in that way. That’s the thought, I think optimistic and selective, and both countries have their dark sides, but I think on balance it is generally true and accurate and what I think most people in those countries probably want and aspire for.

This sounds good to me

This is crazy

I'd love to see it 🫡

That is terrible, but job well done I'd say.

Smoke, mirrors and lies.

Bottom looks better

Yeah, terrible bunch.

Yes, but what is the best way?

😂

Visited, had no idea. Cool.

Does seem like it

Hmm

Concerning