The madness of a Putin maestro

The Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis, a beneficiary of Kremlin funds, is promoting his multinational Utopia orchestra on social media with this quotation from an interview he gave to Corriere della Serra:

‘Music is what connects people. We musicians are like Doctors Without Borders. We don’t ask the people who come to our concerts about their nationality, beliefs, or thoughts. The same goes for a doctor when they encounter someone in the operating theater whom they need to treat. Our mission is to bring people together, make them meet, even if they have different opinions. We must also love people who have different opinions from ours. This is the message we convey through music. Not only in the current period, but always…’

The effrontery of a supporter of Putin’s wars to compare himself to Doctors Without Borders is breathtaking.