Yeah, I don’t think anyone will argue Dönitz didn’t deserve his time in Spandau, but to be fair the unrestricted submarine warfare bit was a little on the nose.

That's true for quite a few of the concepts involved here to be fair. I mean, a significant percentage of the world's submarines engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare during WWII, which as far as I am aware still lack a formal basis.

You can also get 20 bottles (0.75 l) of legendary cheap (and bad) red wine Valdemar for that price 😁

In Finland you can enter service later, e.g. after finishing your studies. However, in practice most choose to sign up when 19, which then usually means they are still living at home, but it isn't an absolute.

There's also an additional detail in that women serving voluntarily get a small additional daily allowance for "the kind of personal equipment the FDF doesn't supply".

There's a social security net for those parts as well. I'm not sure about the exact details these days, but back in the days it was something along the lines of if you had had an apartment a set number of months before entering service the state paid rent (and similar) during your service

It's quite a bit higher now than it was back when I did my service in 2007. Then in particular the first six months were low enough that if you went to the Soldiers' home and bought a donut with something to drink that was basically the pay that day 😅

Obviously, your opportunities to spend money is also severely limited, so it isn't quite as bad as it looks 😁

Yes, e.g. the Anglo-French attack on the fortress as part of the Crimean War is referred to as The Bombardment of Viapori in Finnish.

The original Finnish name was Viapori, which might sound suspiciously lot like Viborg, though the Finnish name for that is Viipuri ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Then you probably also need to hear the (likely fake) story of the great Prussian field marshal von Moltke the Elder having only laughed twice – once when they told him his mother-in-law was dead and once when he saw Vaxholms fästning 😎

Yes, it’s just next to Vesterbrogade IIRC.

There’s also room for an interpretation connecting it to Bismarck’s (apocryphal?) statement about laws and sausages 😎

Speaking of high-flying messages in Copenhagen, I had to dig up my phone and snap a picture of this when I encountered it.

Short and to the point, whoever wrote it surely got their views across 😁

However, since just NASAMS isn't scaling fast enough, we will also see IRIS-T SLM and VL MICA enter service in the near future.

I must say I have never thought of you two as the perfect speechwriter duo for the president, but now I can't unsee it 😁

Did someone ask the bookies whether they meant more than two goals made or conceded…?