One of the inner engines had a visible outgassing pointing to structural failure in the engine itself. This was followed briefly by an engine explosion. No reasonable fire suppression system can handle an event this size. The best way to address this is detecting it early and running an emergency shutdown of the valves on the supply lines.

That will teach everybody watching to buy American equipment!

I don’t think Russia had to pay anything.

Is NATO membership still a valid goal to pursue?