Since April 2, or “Liberation Day,” as the White House now calls it, Donald Trump has invoked emergency legal powers to unilaterally impose tariffs on major exporters to the United States, bypassing Congress entirely.

Looking for a textbook example of the uncertainty Trump has created with his global trade war – abetted by wars in Ukraine and Gaza – look no further than Switzerland.

The two-minute video isn’t subtle. Wielding a medieval halberd, the president of the conservative Swiss People’s Party lays out the choice Switzerland faces: a simpler life that the country’s founders spelled out in a one-page declaration more than 700 years ago or a 2,