The French version might be the Shadoks: Reality is arbitrary and absurd, we are pointless, stupid creatures and our pretensions to wisdom and the pursuit of knowledge are laughably futile.
The episodes on physics and logic are some of the best, but I can’t find translations.
the outcome will be partly decided by the UK/EU relationship, the EU has economical interests that the Icelandic EEZ is accessible and I think it’s likely the the EU members will help Iceland.
and the country is part of the NATO and had US troops stationed there in the cold war, it seems likely that another intra-NATO conflict will not be welcomed happily, Turkey/Greece is enough
You’re being serious. I just wanted to post about how our foreign secretary is such a clueless buffoon that he would be able to involve us in a war with Iceland - and lose. Johnson is so incompetent that, had he ever become UK dictator, the surveillance cameras supposed to be watching us would stop working because he forgot to pay the bill.
Watching him being taken down by John Kerry would have been deeply embarrassing had I ever indicated approval of him in any way whatsoever.
I your willing to accept compromises with the proximity of more militaristic nation states Ireland could work, too. Or even Switzerland and Austria: Rather large armies, but reliable and believable neutral.