Switzerland will continue talks with the United States, its president said on Thursday, after President Donald Trumpplaced crippling import tariffs on Swiss goods, which threaten to inflict serious damage on its export-focused economy.

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,