Yes, Americans tend to focus on the monetary side, completely forgetting there's a whole other world outside of their country that had wide varieties of policies to combat Covid, and everyone is experiencing inflation, including Sweden (at 10% annually as of September 2022) that didn't shut down and didn't spend anywhere close to the money spent by other EU countries to prop up jobs and the economy.

Many people, especially Americans, forget the supply side - a pandemic which wrecked global supply lines, and a war which is impacting some of the most important resources (food and energy), globally. No idea why, maybe because they can't blame a politician/party for that part.

In any case, inflation has many complex causes, is global, and may take quite some time to get reigned in. There's no quick fixes to the supply problems nor for the monetary (supply) problems, and if perceptions are that inflation will continue, it will continue regardless of underlying metrics.