text:  Didn't you claim, Joe, three years ago in the summer of 2021 that inflation was just temporary or transitory? How's that lie holding up? I'd like to hear that question asked. Why is your defense secretary only now talking to Russia after President Trump laid out a sensible plan to bring an end to the war in Ukraine and, of course, the tens of billions of dollars and all the weapons that we're sending to Ukraine as well? And the topper?