The closest thing I know is to write in C++, use library containers instead of arrays, and use the bounds-checked calls. There is no frickin' way you're going to make raw pointers safe and bounds-checked in general. I suspect it's equivalent to the Halting Problem, but haven't done the work to check. The only possible approach is to have a strict discipline, which is much easier to do in C++.

C++ is safer than C, and just as fast.

If you are certain to avoid memory management problems in C, you're not using much of the memory facilities. It's really easy to get memory management wrong in C.

GOTOs are tricky, and should only be used with strict discipline. A GOTO going to the end of a routine is fine, but one that goes backwards is likely to be confusing. If there's over 200 of them in the Linux kernel, that's few enough so they're likely well used. If the OpenSSL code has them everywhere, that's a bad sign.

I'm perfectly cool with dropping MacOS support. If they make it not work on MacOSX, I'll be annoyed. There's a difference there, although it may not be obvious.

Didn't have that problem with TurboTax. It worked nice and smoothly. Your problem apparently is being exposed to credit card fees. Usually, the merchant absorbs those costs, but governments insist on getting what they're owed so you pay the fees when paying them with a credit card.

You won't know how much FICA you pay until you start to make money that's not under a W-2. That's an eye-opener.

The Sudetenland was also part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, so I fail to see what the difference between the Anschluss and the Sudetenland in that regard. Both were heavily German parts of Austria-Hungary.

The separation of Austria-Hungary and Germany had been deliberately formalized by Bismarck in his unification of those parts of Germany not under Austro-Hungarian rule up until WWI, and the Austria-Germany split was basically imposed from without both after WWI and WWII.

The Soviets did not get along well with the Western allies in WWII. They had a common foe, and that's pretty much it. Any close relationship was PR or diplomacy.

The Soviets continued to be extremely secretive with the West. They wouldn't in general allow shuttle bombing using Soviet-controlled bases because that would mean allowing Western soldiers onto Soviet-controlled soil. Seamen from the Murmansk convoys were restricted heavily in their movements. I've read that the West learned of the late war Soviet heavy tank from captured German documents (but haven't confirmed, so take that with a grain of salt).

The Soviets had tried to make an alliance with France and Britain before the war, and insisted on being able to annex Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as part of it. That's one reason negotiations broke down (the other is that France and Britain didn't pursue the alliance with any energy - the British representative didn't get authorization to speak directly to the Soviets until Stalin had decided to ally with Germany).

Soviet-Western relationships, never warm, were going downhill starting roughly with the Warsaw Rebellion, which the Soviets called for in the hope that they could join up with the rebels, and repudiated when the Germans stopped the Red Army. My impression is that Stalin would rather it be thought that he called for the Rebellion to get rid of uppity Poles than it be thought the Red Army couldn't accomplish what it was ordered to do.

I don't think there is an international demand for Crimea to stay in Ukraine permanently. If there had been a proper referendum, there would have been plenty of people unhappy with the situation, but it would not have risen to the level of outrage.

The fact that Putin didn't allow a real referendum suggests that he's doubtful he would have won one. It may well be that a large majority would have voted to join Russia, but we'll never know.

The American Civil War was a war over many things, and it was a diplomatic coup for Lincoln to manage to present it as a war against slavery, cutting potential European support for the South. Secession was primarily about slavery.

The Philippines had cost a lot to pacify, but that was in the past. Their defense was costly, but it was part of US geopolitics. The US wanted to maintain a forward fleet base in Manila Bay no matter what. The Philippines were let go because they were ready. I don't know enough about Cuba to say, but I don't remember its annexation as being a war aim.

The reason he compared it to Nazi Germany is that it bears a striking similarity. Large power army occupies area, holds plebiscite, gets a very high percentage of the vote for annexation. It immediately reminded me of the Anschluss.

If Putin wants to not get compared with Hitler, all he has to do is not act like Hitler. Seems simple to me.

Not necessarily. The government might pay money to a minor child by sending it to the parent or guardian, and might make an overpayment. Apparently, that's the principle here. It sucks to have money taken from you because of something you never actually saw that happened 40 years ago, but it still can be your debt.

Moreover, I don't remember the Democrats having 2/3 of both chambers, and that's what it takes to override a veto.