Appriciate your feedback. I also read a number of people which I don't fully agree with but still find their points interesting. Sometimes I might strongly disagree but their points may raise my own reflection upon an issue. So whether you agree or not as long as you get something out of it.

"I'd love to see a study of issues the US has for example vs the challenges in Nordic countries."

What did you have in mind? Like the kind of political issues that dominate discourse in different countries?

Or more like the specific challenges each society faces?

I think some problems are universal across much of the West but there are definitely quite some big differences between the US and the Nordics both at the political level and more broadly what challenges each society faces.

Nordics for instance don't really have a cultural war. The friction between the generations and political factions is much lower.

On the other hand small countries like the Nordic have unique challenges in how to deal with large neighbours like Russia or powerful trading partners like China which do not share our values. The US can engage with big power as an equal or as the dominant one. Small countries like the Nordics are always engaging in a balancing act. I think we more often have to accept humiliations which Americans would never have tolerated.