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Ireland runs a budget surplus and has the lowest debt since the financial crisis. They've never been better placed to take on this project.

South-East England even

Russians don't really use motherland. Rodina, which means birth-land, is translated that way because there's no simple English term to convey that

It was a very good system. Collecting it's own fees added a degree of separation between government and public broadcaster and protected it's independence.

The European model used to be empowering the public broadcaster to collect a TV licensing fee, but is now moving to direct tax payer subsidy because internet streaming made that too easy to circumvent

Finland

Norway, not Finland. Women have a duty to serve but so few are called up that it's kind of voluntary in practice.

Salads and sandwiches should be served room temperature, never right out of the fridge cold

This is bordering on the conspiratorial. The Russians believed they would defeat Ukraine very quickly. They never expected to be in this situation

Grit your teeth

Stiff upper lip

Sisu

Many ways to articulate this

On the other hand, China had access to those resources already, and are now much more exposed internationally, as evidenced by recent Western efforts to "de-risk" economic relations.

India are making a lot of money but they've also lost their main weapons supplier and are now forced to turn to Western countries to fill the gap. A position they most definitely didn't want to be in.

It isn't good news for Russia either.