The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Sanna Marin reads as The Steward because her leadership treats action as collective moral obligation, never personal ambition. From welfare-state origins through LGBTQ+ rights to Europe's catastrophic strategic naivety on Russia, her pattern holds: diagnose the structural failure, whether energy dependency, democratic backsliding, or the gendered scrutiny applied to women leaders, then absorb the personal cost of naming it.
“Of what the United Nations is. I think people somehow see it as a sort of a supranational power that sits above all else. But it doesn't. It's just a reflection of the politics of the world and it tries to make peace where there is war. It tries to deal with humanitarian crisis, where there is humanitarian crisis.”
“That's never been done before. And I was also, I was genuinely surprised that he speaks German. I didn't know he spoke German. I mean, I have to say, Rory, I'm going to be a little bit of a stickler. His accent, you know, in bischian abeit darber, it was pretty brave to do it.”
“I think I told Fiona Hill that I listened to her at two times the normal because I was rushing to get through the book before we met her. I must say, by the way, Rory, the God desire, David's book, and I was sent this book this week. My soundbites are now so kind of well known that people write books about them.”
“I think around about 20 and the other two are above 20. But the three parties that have run each other pretty close. And it was interesting how she did sort of, she conceded very, very quickly and very, very gracefully and congratulated the other parties and said, what a great campaign it had been and so forth.”
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Sanna Marin on populism and a fragile Europe”
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