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Blame Pau, not Putin or greedy corporations for price hikes.

The Biden administration and its allies continue to use Russian President Vladimir Putin as

the convenient excuse for their economic failures.

The most recent falsehood is that Russian invasion of Ukraine caused March 8.5% year-over-year

increase in the CPI.

Prices were surging long before Russian troops entered Ukraine.

Furthermore, Putin did not stop exporting food and gas.

It was the Biden administration and Congress had imposed sanctions making US consumers suffer

additional price increases.

The blame for the economic effects lies with the US government, not Russia.

The United States has for years been meddling in Ukraine's affairs with the explicit goal

of moving US and NATO military forces ever closer to Russia.

The most notorious example was the 2014 US-orchestrated coup that overthrew Ukraine's democratically

elected government.

Russia has a legitimate grievance over the US supporting expanding NATO to include Ukraine.

Despite the US having promised not to support expanding NATO beyond Germany's borders during

their negotiations over how to end the Cold War.

Foreign policy experts, including George Kennen, the architect of the Cold War containment

strategy warned that Russia would respond adversely to NATO expansion near Russia.

Before the Ukraine conflict Biden and his fellow Democrats blamed price increases on

greedy corporations, going so far as to claim that increasing anti-trust prosecutions

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