By Povl H. Riis-Knudsen In our everyday lives, we are surrounded by narratives: stories about climate disasters, COVID-19, vaccines, and today, not least, about the war between Russia and Ukraine. There are two narratives about this. The first is that Russia is just waiting to invade the whole of Europe, occupy us and… and, well, what exactly? What would Russia want with us? There are no Russians in Western Europe who are oppressed, we have no raw materials, Russia has enough territory (it is the world’s largest country), Western Europe simply has a collection of insurmountable problems: immigration from uncivilized regions that threatens the existence of countries, insurmountable economic problems, unpayable national debt, dilapidated infrastructure, wokeism, “cancel culture,” 177 genders, godlessness, and all kinds of other evils and immorality that one would not want in Russia.