| You know what, after googling a bit, you are more correct than I thought. The Ukraine War is responsible for a significant portion of US inflation. Not all, but maybe a third, at its peak.[1] But as other posters have mentioned, the FED had been telegraphing raising interest rate hikes for months prior to the war. I would wager the acceleration of inflation accelerated their rate hikes, but hikes were coming nonetheless. Russia essentially made a difficult situation much worse. That said, we can no more end that war than we can invade Russia and force them to withdraw. The best policy going forward is to continue to support an ally who was aggressed upon, one whom we promised to protect in case they were invaded in return for them giving up their nuclear weapons only thirty years ago.[2] 1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-russian-invasion-of-uk... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum |
Consider what USA would do if China was arming Canada or Mexico and visiting those countries encouraging attacks on USA. As an actual example, consider the panic and fear in USA when Soviet missiles appeared in Cuba.
I'm disgusted by the wasted treasure of USA meddling in eastern Europe. Spend the funds at home.
We could encourage Zelensky to abide by 2016 Minsk agreement to allow Donbas to vote on it's own future direction. Democracy good, right? Let them vote, as was agreed.