Last year I wrote a song for a local couple that own a cafe in nearby Binalong. They had made international news when they put a tarif on US drinks in March 2025 in response to Trump and Vance treating Zelensky so badly when he visited the White House. A few weeks later I played a concert at the cafe, and then in February I got to meet the Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia when he visited the cafe. It was a great honor to sing The Red Viburnum in Ukrainian at that event.

I wrote another song this week to mark four years of Russian un-provoked aggression, and strong resistance by all the people of Ukraine. In the song I show statistics collected by the Kiel Institute that show just how devastating Trump’s cuts at the start of 2025 were to the Ukrainian people, and their fight for their country.

Trump and Putin both want the people of Ukraine to stop fighting. Whether they do or not has impacts for the whole free world. Slava Ukraini!