Putin’s Price Hike

[GMDino]

(04-13-2022, 10:02 PM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: I must have missed where they branded it the “Combination of Things that Putin Made Worse by Invading Price Hike”. My fault if I did.

(04-13-2022, 10:16 PM)GMDino Wrote: Oh there's a political spin involved in blaming it on Putin...assuming the administration is blaming it all on Putin and not just part of it.

But I was just saying that's not true, it's not all Putin.  So your post was correct in questioning it.

I wanted to clarify that just because Biden says "Putin price hike" doesn't mean that is the only thing he has ever said about inflation.  That's what I mean about if this administration is solely blaming Putin versus using one time he said it and saying he's blaming it ALL on Putin.

Clearly this has been an issue since the economy started heating up again post the heaviest of Covid and that has been addressed by Biden and the administration.

Like when he mentioned Putin affecting a spike in fuel prices:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/10/statement-by-president-biden-on-consumer-price-index-in-february/

That is not solely blaming Putin.

But that one statement, about the spike, will get played into a partisan spin where most republicans will say Biden is solely blaming Putin for all of the inflation.  

But it wasn't that long ago I was told to not worry about what the POTUS says but what he meant so maybe we're not working under those rules anymore.