War in Ukraine

The collapsing Russian economy under the weight of sanctions is the new WMD in Iraq...

 

The inflation was 8.6% in 2021. We spent a huge amount of money both coming up with a vaccine for Covid on an accelerated timeline, and keeping the U.S. economy afloat (both of which provided value to both the U.S. and the world), with much of the population confined to their homes and unable to go to work. The Covid spending went down in 2022, and the inflation went down to about 3.5% as well. Developing that type of vaccine on an accelerated timetable has never been done before, and it saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American lives. Again, it was temporary, and it was not combined with other negative factors to consider, like losing 5 million of the labor pool to a war of conquest (either drafted or gone into exile).

Our economy has been #1 in the world for several decades now. I don't know why you would want to denigrate the world-leading economy that feeds you. Yes, there have been times that our economy was humming along better than other times, but we were still the best economy in the entire world. You and Trump just like to whine when it serves your purposes.

 

a) With the obvious exception that one of the above has actually happened before. The Russian economy collapsed around 1990, partly due to sanctions, partly due to a major war (in Afghanistan), partly due to their leaders' incompetence (all three circumstances are now repeating themselves 34 years later).

b) As a blind republican homer, you should accept blame for GWB's use of WMD as an excuse to invade Iraq, not ridicule a president you no doubt helped elect. GWB was your president. As an intelligent republican voter, I could not bring myself to vote for such an ignoramus. I think I wrote in a vote for McCain.