Maple and salmon

In despair, I discovered that COOP was out of Canadian maple the other week. Luckily, a new shipment just made it across the Atlantic. Returning from a long run with Elin, I made a delicious sandwich with Danish rye bread, cream cheese, salmon, and, yes, maple.

Otherwise, there are new worrying news about the Russian military build-up in Kaliningrad and near the Ukrainian border, ostensibly motivated by “NATO aggression”. Clearly, the lack of imagination on both sides is as frustrating as ever. Just imagine what kind of cultural and social integration with Russia that Western Europe could have been able to achieve for a fraction of the cost that we currently spend on defence. There were so many chances to turn the development around, still the military and psychological need for an “enemy” always seemed to cloud our thinking. Given Russia’s nuclear arsenal, outright conflict is simply not an option and, while cooler heads have always prevailed in the past, that is no guarantee for the future.