Цена бензина или цена свободы?
Что, если бы американцы мыслили так же в 1940 году? Представьте, если бы после Перл-Харбора в декабре 1941 года американцы решили, что нормирование бензина и экономические трудности — слишком высокая цена за победу над нацистской…
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The comparison to Pearl Harbor frames today's energy costs as a test of national resolve rather than a policy problem. The author is arguing that inflation anxiety is being weaponized to weaken support for Ukraine, and that this mirrors historical appeasement of tyranny. The real question is whether voters will accept sustained economic pain as the cost of confronting Russia, or whether the political opposition will successfully tie that pain to the administration. Watch whether gas prices become the central issue in the next election cycle, because that is the pressure point this argument is responding to.