Critical Connection

We are watching a program entitled "Decoding Disaster" on the Discovery Channel. It is a documentary about some of the worst car accidents in history.

One of them took place in the Gotthard Tunnel, an 17 kilometer tunnel through the Swiss Alps between the German and Italian areas of Switzerland.

The narrator just described the tunnel as a "critical connection between Germany and Italy."

So, Switzerland is merely a "critical connection" between Germany and Italy?

And people wonder why the Swiss have an Inferiority Complex.