Moscow Mule

Known for never staying too long in the same place, I decided to make a short trip up to Örebro last night. Greeted by the castle lit up in the colours of Ukraine, Sofi and I hade a great night out, featuring Baron Trenck from Brno and a Moscow Mule in the Clarion hotel bar.

Reading Putin’s own justification for the war turned out to be more illuminating than I first thought. Brushing aside the nonsense about NATO threatening Russia in a military sense, Putin himself clearly states that this is in fact about culture: “they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature”. Or, in short, this is all about feminism and the ever-present spectre of homosexuality. Plus, of course, protecting his own illegally amassed wealth.

In the best of worlds, people will see this for what it is and stop voting for those who share Putin’s values, be it Le Pen or the Sweden Democrats.