Well ofcourse he's saying this stuff, it's not like he can back down now. Sunk cost fallacy and so on.. The thing about going to war though is that you need an army for that. Putin may be stubborn but I don't think he's stupid. Now is not the time to gamble with NATOs article 5.
Thorny_Insight
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For countries like China and Russia the issue is that if you're planning to go to war you need to do it now because in few decades you wont have enough fighting age men left.
One child policy definitely did not help, but this is a problem on many other places too including virtually every single first world country.
What's even worse is that if your country needs more 30 year olds it does not help to start making more children now. It needed to be done 30 years ago. It's either immigration or automation.
Not quite.
The Special Committee on Decolonization concluded its 2021 substantive session today, approving 18 draft resolutions, including one requesting that the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom resume negotiations as soon as possible to reach a peaceful resolution of their sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)*.
Say what you will. I find it a bit insane that a country can just own an island like that which is nowhere even near their mainland. If you just look at the map it's quite obvious to who that land belongs to.
Something like Hawai is a more difficult case since it's in the middle of ocean. Maybe it should just be a sovereign nation.
EDIT: Though since most people living there are native born Falkland islanders that speak English and voted to stay as a part of the UK then it's perhaps something we should leave be as it is. Kind of similar case as with Israel to be honest.
Yeah, the Raptor has never been exported to other countries