inflation was already a huge problem.....and the US state dept and the Biden administrations complete and utter lack of even making the slightest attempt at diplomacy or making any kind of gesture to take the concerns Russia had with Ukraine/NATO seriously and the Biden administration and Congresses war mongering to "fight the bad guys!" and then their insane economic warfare on Russia....laughingly and predictably backfired. All they did is take inflation which was already a problem....throw gasoline on that fire and take it from maybe a level 6 problem on a scale of 1 to 10 and take it to like level 11.
Russia is the largest exporter of natural gas, wheat (BY FAR the single most important food crop in the world), and fertilizer (you know, that pesky stuff we use to grow FOOD) in the entire world. They are the 2nd largest exporter of crude oil in the world. You know, ACTUAL useful commodities (unlike most of the BULLSH*T services the US produces/exports) that the ENTIRE f***king world needs to you know, LIVE. But yeah, let's just try to erase them from the world economy....that'll go over well.
