Thanks!

Ultimately voters don’t distinguish between unpleasant things that their leaders and governments have direct control over, and those that are international phenomena resulting from … the warmongering of an ageing autocrat halfway across the world.

“…and we would have created a utopia had it not been for that meddling Putin!”

The cost of living was also the top issue in Britain’s July general election and has been front of mind in dozens of other countries for most of the last two years.

Inflation from borrowing money to send to Ukraine. They’re technically loans, but there’s just no way Ukraine can repay them.