Yama

Waaaaa! I didn't get the toy I wanted! Now I break everyones toys then! 😭😠

They did (well not quite decade ago, 2018). Building of prototype engine has apparently began. How well its going to keep to the optimistic schedule, well..

KF-21 has so much American involvment that it will probably be under significant export restrictions. Turkish TFX seems a probability, if they can develope domestic engines.

Might be. US action against Maduro dragged for quite long time, and lot of people probably thought it's not going to happen after all. OTOH, it would fit previous Trump policies: avoid dragging the country into wars and use military action sparingly. He has cancelled strikes before. Despite the strike against Maduro, he doesn't exactly have record of a war hawk. Well, if it hasn't happened after all the previous stuff Saudi Arabia has pulled off, seems unlikely this would trigger such thing...

Defence partners across the globe are much less interested in supporting USA in...well...anything, and Europeans are putting money into strengthening a remote area neither Russia or China was ever going to invade anyway.

Plenty of that around Future of Åland

Nor is Hawaii, yet... Iceland is actually closer to NA than Europe. And if we look at the disputes concerning say, North Pole, then all it takes is some innovative geology to switch an island from one continent to another...

As opposed to Greenland...well I suppose there are Inuit living in Alaska.

Well, it's not totally unusual - particularly if you look at WW1 - that failed generals get a second chance after overseeing some costly disaster (or third, fourth...eleventh..).

I'd prefer 'Dark Crusader'

Europe is a patchwork of small languages, Finland alone has half a dozen official 'native' languages (not counting sign languages).

I am sure if USSR had been able to keep providing all those things, it would still exist...

Russians used somewhat similar tactics against Ukrainian advances in 2023 summer offensive: trading little terrain for enemy casualties is a classic scheme, and Ukraine still has plenty of territory to trade.

Didn't Argentina at one point offer to buy Falklandian loyalty with plain ol' money?

Here post-WW2 "veteran houses" are often popular targets for renovation, particularly if they're made of logs. '60s/70s is seen a dark age of homebuilding, with all kinds of new fancy designs and materials which proved to be rather unsuitable for our climate, or probably any climate. (For example, it was very fashionable to have flat roofs - great idea in a country where 1 metre of snowfall over winter is commonplace). Things improved in the '80s. Apartment blocks built over the last ~10 years tend to be horrible, mushroom projects propelled by housing bubble, with awful layouts designed to maximize number of apartments which can be sold. With the end result that they don't sell because they're cramped, dark and generally suck. Also, often put together by outsourced small companies who made the lowest bid due to use of untrained cheap foreign labour.