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It's extremely weird to post a super over the top fascist in Saagar but from a... "left leaning" perspective to I guess criticize opposing Russia?
Obviously the White House should have expected this to be extremely expensive, but this thread itself is very strange.
Obviously the White House should have expected this to be extremely expensive, but this thread itself is very strange.
Predictably, looking for someone to point the finger at other than themselves for inflation. Monetary policies, particularly QE, money printing, and all the other crap federal reserves and the like have been doing for years, and especially in the last couple of years, is the primary cause of inflation. Sure there are lots of factors, but that is the number one cause. They will do everything possible to direct blame somewhere else.
Oh? They are actually admitting (privately) that the sanctions are hurting the developing world? That is rather unexpected. Then I read further into the article: I suppose after being forced to publicly deny that the sanctions are causing harm, it is not entirely unusual for them to check if the denial is actually true.
It doesn't help when everything from oil, to food brands, to airlines have taken it as a cue to price gouge.
But yeah, there were significant worries over Russian fertilizer for whom there is a lot of dependency in Europe and beyond. Not to mention that Ukraine is a bread basket and that's going to drive prices even higher.
I still think sanctions were the right call, but it really only works if we as nations can help each other through it together, and we can't even ask half our legislature to get its shit together.
But yeah, there were significant worries over Russian fertilizer for whom there is a lot of dependency in Europe and beyond. Not to mention that Ukraine is a bread basket and that's going to drive prices even higher.
I still think sanctions were the right call, but it really only works if we as nations can help each other through it together, and we can't even ask half our legislature to get its shit together.
Good. Because it was the right call.
I just hope it is a big enough deterrent because what Russia has done to Ukraine cannot be allowed to happen anywhere else and sanctions were the only real consequence that could be brought down on them.
I do not think Jimmy Dore fans have any interest in providing accurate perspectives though.
Embracing fascists like Sagaar just because you love Russia and China for.... reasons that make no sense whatsoever..... sure.
Or maybe shit is just complicated with different options all with varying degrees of negatives.
Kind of hard to adequately respond to a dictator who will invade countries unprovoked without causing larger potential issues. Appeasement also is an action proven to not work and have even more significant global consequences. And direct conflict wasn't going to be an option either.
Aren't these all mostly things handled by the federal reserve, a body that doesn't really answer to the executive? And stuff set in motion prior to Biden getting into office? If you mean money printing via legislation and issuing checks to people, I'm not sure what not issuing those checks would have caused in the immediate aftermath of mass layoffs brought on by the pandemic. Probably would have been even less pretty.
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