Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food and energy costs rise

Re:Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food ... by pydry on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:09PM (#31622036)

>The EU must be willing to experience discomfort

Id be more willing to suffer discomfort if diplomatic options were exhausted before this war.

As it is we are made to suffer ultimately, because NATO and Russia are spoiling for a proxy war and because the US has been itching to sell us some overpriced LNG.

The US should be giving us LNG at a discount on prewar levels. This is largely their proxy war, not ours.

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Re:Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food ... by ben_w on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:42PM (#31622478)

I don’t see how you can call a direct conflict between Russia and anyone a proxy war for Russia.

If you did, the USA involvement in Vietnam would be a proxy war for the USA, and the American war of independence would be a proxy war for the British — in both cases some other power also had some interest, but I would never call either a proxy war for the USA and British respectively.

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Re:Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food ... by pydry on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:53PM (#31622615)

Vietnam absolutely was a proxy war - US against Moscow. Domino theory and all that.

The US has a long history of demanding others to sacrifice themselves at the altar of its imperialist struggles, whether it's Australians being sent to die in vietnam or European pensioners being asked to die of cold in dec 2022.

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