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Putin Weaponizes Inflation

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Puton's Inflation

The speech is a broad appeal to populism, effectively blaming alites for all the ills that people are experiencing. He talks about the west having no ideas other than to fire up the money printing machine. The attempt here is to make the west look gluttonous, stupid and bereft of ideas. What i believe he is doing here is shifting fundamentally the narrative of globalization. Not being able to produce food isn't just an economic decision,. It's a moral failure.

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