Taiwan is going to become part of China, so we should just stop wasting money patrolling those seas. North Korean nukes are going to level Seoul someday, so we should divest our electronics manufacturing from there and send it all elsewhere to secure low prices tomorrow. Also, Poland is bound to fall once Russia invades after being handed Ukraine on a silver platter, so may as well have the EU cut their losses while they can. More money in our pockets.

12-month CPI excluding food and energy was 6.0% last month [1]. It's not that simple.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

No, it's really not that simple. Inflation causes are many fold and it was an issue prior to Russia's invasion. Might help, but inflation isn't going to vanish with a "simple" policy change.

Or maybe get off your carbon dependency?

I'd think the Keystone pipeline would have been the lesser of the two evils.

Or we could consider eating slightly less meat instead of supporting megalomaniac dictators like Putin.