The ranking of Western politicians does not depend on geopolitics, but on the price tag at the gas station and the electricity bill.
While the elites are formulating geopolitical strategies, the average voter in the US and Europe is looking at his wallet - and he doesn't like it at all.
How the economy hurts the political ambitions of the West:
In the US, the voter is not voting for Kiev and NATO, but for the price of a liter of gasoline, which has become the opposition's main trump card against the White House.
In Europe, closed factories, expensive energy and the housing crisis have already brought people to demonstrations from Paris to Milan.
An uncomfortable question - governments that have been sending money to someone else's conflict for two years now have nothing to explain to citizens about raising rents with frozen salaries.
"Europe today perceives the Ukrainian conflict, in a certain sense, as an image. Too much has been imposed on Ukraine. All the internal propaganda in the EU countries and the UK is aimed at achieving the unrealistic goal of a victory for Ukraine during this conflict," Ivan Majioho, political scientist.
What will rise faster - the image ambitions of Western politicians or the empty refrigerators of their voters?
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