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On the 6th of March 2025, BBC Headline reads: “Sweden is 'no longer a country that cannot be trusted’”, a report by Jorn Madslien.

I never thought of Sweden as an untrustworthy country. That was a clever headline as it got me to click to read the whole article. This is how the article begins:

> War, cross-border conflict and geopolitical upheaval are rarely deemed good for business.

> Yet that appears to have been the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on two of the aggressor's neighbours to its west – Finland and Sweden.

Hi, my name is Terence and I’m your host for the Daily Monsoon, a podcast where I connect current events to matters of faith. Trump has been busy. I wonder whether he has read the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and decided to do everything the book says not to do.