An Agressive/ Divided Switzerland?

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
-Welles, (George) Orson
What if you did not have 500 hundred years of democracy and peace in this expensive little country?
 
Orson Welles got it all wrong. There never was 500 hundred years of democracy and peace in Switzerland. We had plenty of oppression by elites, religious wars, peasant uprisings, and revolutions. The Swiss success story only began in 1848.

Oh, and cuckoo clocks were actually invented in Germany, in the Black Forest. We just import them, put a new label on them, and sell them to ignorant tourists...
 
How about a non-neutral Switzerland, indeed how about never having Switzerland as a formal state, rather the various cantons going with the dominant language, with the native Swiss language dominant cantons, if they exist going perhaps to Germany?
 
So, Any More Contributions?

Well, as I have expanded the question in my last post under this thread, any contributions?
 
Well, the swabian wars were the beginning of swiss independence, so the swiss confederation doing worse and thus getting not so generous conditions upon peace would be a decent PoD.
Additionally have the House of Habsburg not losing too much territories there could also help.
 
Orson Welles got it all wrong. There never was 500 hundred years of democracy and peace in Switzerland. We had plenty of oppression by elites, religious wars, peasant uprisings, and revolutions. The Swiss success story only began in 1848.

Oh, and cuckoo clocks were actually invented in Germany, in the Black Forest. We just import them, put a new label on them, and sell them to ignorant tourists...

Quite a few of my ancestors were displaced refugees of the Swiss religious wars.
 
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