From the article....From the article....
"What is unique is that now Green Energy mandates across the industrial world are driving this inflation crisis for the first time, ..."
note that the EU has closed out industrialization with the vicious Czech war, now has a mere shadow of the Gadfansk shipyards, and is finishing with the elimination of industrialized Ukraine.
The corporations now buying the Ukraine will be recognized as native when the Ukraine is admitted shortly, and the focus will be building a natural gas industry of the Ukrainian farmland to the dismay of Africa.
Africa will be pressured into developing their native gas, oil , mines, etc industries and the cherry on top of the EU Sunday is they will have to pay a climate tax!
Their climate is too dry for wheat but tons of fertilizer and mountains of debt will be extended when their focus should be on the native grains like millet, teff. and sorghum.
As an older person it is sad to see this extortion drive the world's economy after the excesses of divorce to bolster the US economy when the corps offshored.

The tone of the article implies the US is behind and this is simply strategy. Since surviving WWII, the US has been dominant. The past strategy was that of a bumbling, well-meaning oaf; the current strategy is to be last at everything. Wait the other guy out in everything, science, arms, tech, etc. Which is why we don't have J Webb functional, we don't share ifno anymore.
We were supposed to come out of this past 20 years with a new country cut out of Syria indebted to US, with some new form of energy, and the Bushy Boys made fat due to the public taxpayers in the US pouring money into the hog trough.
Instead we are maybe-sorta going to have electric battery operated cars, Ergodan finally getting off the fence in backing the US pushing the Kurds out of autonomous Kurdistan into Syria, and the wink-wink with the Saudis to buy up the vulture IPOs tanking due to targeting.

It has always baffled me as to why the elite turned against Ms Clinton as she epitomized the 'American' politician. I strongly suspect it was because she had paid her dues and intended to be her own decider. But for the turn of WI. Ms Clinton would be President. The massive anti Clinton rhetoric appears to be generated by the establishment elite who had their own plan for the coming Presidential term.
This Middle East war of collapse is and was generated by the Bush buddies, Obama being a place holder, and Prez Trump being the entertainment.
The vulture funds do nothing to aid the American economy with their IPOs; social media was collapsing when Prez Trump gassed up Twitter, Uber and Lyft merely took advantage of American cars owners, We Work collapsed when the money bags snapped shut in Saudi Arabia, relabeling is the best description of the current IPO scams.
The truth is that privatized prisons are being funneled the damaged intellects from our toxic corporate product exposure, natural gas plants are being built to provide the electricity for the battery operated cars that are coming. Our future is the government dole.

Those 100 military Prez Trump is sending to Saudi Arabia? Snippers to eliminate the insiders.

As noted, our 'major' industries are 'built on sand.'
Oil extraction wastes our valuable water. The 'hoped for' outcome of this last 50 years is new sources of energy--the fabled land of fusion Shangri La. That has not happened. Nor will it. New oil/gas plants are being built to furnish the electrical production necessary to back the public coercion into electric vehicles. The other fabled land of 'New Markets.'
Look at the last ten years: Facebook stumbled on its IPO 7 years ago and had to be rescued. Social media was collapsing until Prez Trump gassed up Twitter. The brilliant idea of forcing people to rent out their cars dimmed immediately after the IPO. The Saudis purse strings clutched after the oil field bombing delayed their interest in pouring money into NY real estate thru the We Work IPO. All of these vulture funds made fortunes by war profiteering funneling of tax payer dollars.
These are by-products of the engineered Syriani war with its single goal of creating a 'new country' for the persnickety Kurds the US has removed from their oil-rich province this war and from the land of AR in the wars before.
The plan appears to be to allow one step forward and two back. The countries will never have developed infrastructure except in the major US militarily controlled cities. Same for water and sanitation. All transportation is enforced air travel that will under go periodic 'recertification' thru such as Real ID to begin 2020. Public transportation will wither and die. Homes will continue to deteriorate; education has almost disappeared, our sports events will last from year to year, all completed under the auspices of democracy and capitalism.

All well written criticisms as I myself would write but.....
as it ' takes two to tango', perhaps the greater fallacy here is our choosing the 'low road' in pointing out these deficiencies over our own participation.
I suspect our human imperfections enable this side show; we are like the low IQ (85-95) individual not able to focus on the goal thru thru time, continually being sidetracked by any glittery object, snatching a snappy retort to show nothing is getting over on us.
Is it not possible that the entire past three-quarters of a century are merely the excesses of being the only country not experiencing mass bombing on their home soil?
Capitalism has played out in excessive greed for profit using people in any form. I think it has resulted in lowering of IQ world wide as research documents.
How do you reset from extractive greed?

The Big Picture is that we won!
What used to be the final stage OCCUPATION BY FOREIGN TROOPS is now the initial. The inertia of the initial occupation carries thru for a generation--20 years. Wake up! We used Saudi Arabia to burn the crops and orchards to the ground. We used Pakistan to disenfranchise the Afghanistan children of their heritage. We prevented road construction, electrical and water development, maintaining the fortress occupation of the capital for the exclusive use US allies. Of course we won. We win the day we occupied. WAKE UP!
It would take another 20 years just to remove the occupation scars. The US now uses its military to coerce and threaten all around the world. The war isn't fought, its co-opted. The fighting is to destroy the remaining close-knit fabric of the society.
WAKE THE HELL UP!

This has to stop!

Its not morons or imbeciles or idiots, those mentally retarded below 80; its the 80 to 95 that are dangerous and violently anti-authoritarian.
Look at Quora and the Scandanavian military revelation.
Its time for IQ testing to be a qualification for office holders and government workers. College students average 100-115 IQ. We should accept no less for government employees. Military rank needs to be qualified by IQ. The world has sunk into violence and coercion; this is not acceptable. We must put high IQ people in charge for the moral rehabilitation out of this arms selling fiasco.

From 50 to 70 I have seen the world I though existed collapse as if it was imaginary. Yes, it is simply the US plan to dominate the world. And appears it always has been, democracy in its reputed form a lie.
What to attribute this to? I looked up Quora for IQ info and see the 80 to 95 segment always missing on IQ info even on WIKI is found to be the problem. The Scandanavian report completely floored me. According to their military records, the IQ segment of 80 to 95 is the aggressively anti authority and trouble makers. THIS IS WHY we have no info on WIKI about it.
Don't be misled; this info has long been used in manipulate us into constant protesting and organized 'fighting.' For the power structure to hold, they need opposition. What if this low IQ aggressive group is what is in control now? There is a reason why the Scandanavians are not dominated by war!!