Don’t like the Typhoon’s air-intakes, the Rafale looks better (just ignore the fixed refueling probe).

The city/rural divide exists at all levels. You can see this even in state elections in Germany, even in the city states, the rural parts of Hamburg vote much more conservative and in Bavaria only Munich votes Green.

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is not part of the EU.

We could just start a new european union and replace the UN with the old EU.

Are we though? Seems like the modern fighter pilot is very lonely, and now the governments even want to take away their human wingmen and replace with lifeless machines, pilots will be even more lonely.

Europe can into space again.

I want them to build an A480M.

NATO has 14, registered in Luxembourg, but based in Germany.

BTW: The photo with the arc in the article is misleading, what you see there is a disconnector/isolator switch, it’s not used to switch loads, it’s just there to visibly disconnect circuits. The actual switches used switch loads look like T-shaped ceramic insulators. If you’d use a disconnector to switch loads you’d get huge arcs that could damage it (there are photos of that happening when the actual switch failed). The tiny arc you see in the photo is either from residual currents or electrostatic discharge.