Sweden or Ukraine. Are you kidding me?

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The Swedish capital Stockholm is dropping its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics… The other candidate cities are Oslo, Beijing, Krakow (with events held in other Polish locations and in neighbouring Slovakia), Lviv (Ukraine) and Almaty (Kazakhstan).

“Bidding for the Olympics in the current situation would entail too much speculation with taxpayers’ money,” Christian Democrat leaders Ewa Samuelsson and Erik Slottner said in a statement.

Oh my, is it Ukrainian city in the list? Stockholm, capital of very modern, very succesful European country – declares that they don’t have money for this ridiculous money-spending event and Lviv does? S&P credit rating for Sweden is AAA (highest possible), for Ukraine – B- (bottom limit of “Highly speculative” grade). S&P rating for Stockholm itself – AAA, Lviv – CCC+ (Substantial risks of default).

Is Ukrainian government that freaking crazy?