The first minister's "immoderate rhetoric" about the airport had "scared away any airlines that may have been interested in running flights from Cardiff", she added.
Sweden has a complicated relationship with alcohol - immoderate consumption goes hand in hand with fearsomely high prices, official disapproval and a state monopoly on selling liquor.
This is all the more extraordinary insofar as many Americans have recently learned to their horror about such "friends'" thoroughly immoderate, but longstanding, practice of using virulent anti-Israeli and anti-American propaganda as a sort of social safety valve.
Educational standards are still quite inadequate for an advanced country that has to compete in the modern world and the kindest thing that can be said about health is that there have been modest improvements in care since 1997 - but at immoderate cost.