I have absolute confidence that Finland will absolutely counter any aggressive actions all by themselves if they need to.

They have an absolutely staggering amount of artillery and you can be sure it’s all pre-sighted and ready to make any silly invasion attempts an absolute blood bath.

They also have a powerful and decentralised airforce, setup to operate from their highways and backwater air fields should the need arise.

Finland out of any nation in Europe would be the least of my worries about its ability to defend themselves, they have been gearing up and planning to defend against Russian aggression for generations, their people are motivated and I believe already armed with their service rifles after they complete their mandatory service period.

Add NATO membership into it and Russian threats are just laughable, dragging such a powerful and motivated foe into a war you are already struggling badly with would be incredibly stupid, not that that rules it out I guess.

The dumb thing about this taking myself as an example.

I drive a large heavy diesel 4x4, yes it’s not great on the pollution front I understand that.

But it’s all about perspective, I use mine to go on camping holidays for example.

Listening to someone who drives a Tesla criticise me for my lack of environmental awareness while going on 4 overseas flights per year that I don’t take is peak hypocrisy.

One long return flight per year contributes almost as much as my evil 4x4 does in a whole year.

I’m sorry what? I think you should go check your Iranian history then come back.

Iran was a flourishing moderate country before their Islamic revolution, they were even an ally of the US.

They had a revolution by a sect of ultra conservative sharia law islamics that changed all that.

The US is responsible for many unfortunate changes of government and old friends turning enemy… but not this one.

They got the way they are through oppressing the female half of their population, poor foreign policy, corruption and being more concerned with hurting their neighbours than building and maintaining their nation.

So they are now an unproductive, backwards pariah state that kills teen girls for trying to get educated or not wearing a headscarf, Iran did that all by themselves how great!

Firstly it’s not a Max version.

Second, the Australian airforce and Boeing developed this plane together and have already had it in service for many years with fantastic success and reliability.

I believe the UK RAF also has some in service.

It’s been operated with many of our allies on joint operations and sometimes with observers as they all knew that their AWACS fleets were in pretty desperate need to be replaced and were accessing it.

It is by far the most capable platform of this type, and it’s a ready to go mature design that the countries looking to come on board have already been operating along side and supporting in real operations.

Don’t blame me…

I want to give people a chance but why would I hire someone fresh with no experience who won’t except a starter wage because they think they are:

“qualified now and deserve a high pay”

Just because that’s what the for profit, higher education system has told them, does not make it true.

If someone had instead spent those four years in the industry gaining some experience from a beginner role, plus went and got a few industry certifications, I would be much much more likely to hire them and at a higher wage.

That would show that they are capable of actually functioning In the role, and have a bit of knowledge about how the real industry works, and how to function in a real workplace.

Doing well at university while admirable often requires completely different skills to what you end up needing in your chosen field. You can’t blame employers for knowing that and hiring accordingly.

I think nowadays the correct play is enter the industry you want to go into immediately out of school, at whatever basement level you can get in at, study part time to get the piece of paper while also getting real experience.

You will be far more capable (aka valuable) at the end of it.

See the issue is “gain all the skills”

Comes after the job

Grads know nothing… They just hopefully have the foundation concepts there now to build the true knowledge of how things work and are done in the real world.

That’s the real reason grads can’t get jobs… I’ll take someone with 10 years real world experience in the role or one similar and no on paper qualifications in a heartbeat over a fresh faced university graduate.