Howdy All! Next week I will be in Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
Are you there? Are you the Prime Minister? Do you want to hang out?
If so, please message me! Might do a meetup, or maybe grab a beer. I like meeting locals.
Are you NOT in Scandinavia?
Any topics you'd like me to explore for the show whilst there? Anyone I should try to interview, or bust out of jail? Please put topics and guest suggestions in the comments.
I'm curious what the major political factions are and how they map onto or fail to map onto our own. Do they have Bush/Romney type conservatives? Reagan conservatives? Blue dog Dem types? AOC types? Libertarians? The anarcho-syndicalists from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
The Åland Islands would be of interest to you! They are an autonomous (my fave) region of Finland, although Swedish is the official language, and have an interesting history. (A more tongue-in-cheek ‘breakaway’ micronation is the republic of Önneköp).
Perhaps some research on the history/military relations in the maritime regions in light of NATO expansion and Russian relations