Many situations that occurred in recent times seem to be like a reckoning of some sort. When leaders try to avoid something by immoral/dishonourable or unwise means the unexpected consequences seem to land them in the very dire situation which they fear most.
Putin fears Nato expansion and invades Ukraine but now ends up having to contend with Finland and Sweden moving closer to join NATO as well.
Xi Jing Ping fears Covid 19 and adopts a Zero Covid policy (which he deems superior to the strategies undertaken by US and and the West) to ensure a third term as party leader. However the regular and strict lockdowns now stoke public anger as the economy is hit. Warning and actions against protestors and those questioning the Zero Covid policy may stir further public discontent and challenge his quest for life time leadership.
Perhaps it is in the stars. Jerome Powell refrained from hiking interest rates last year to avoid recessionary pressures; quoting the lack of evidence on actual inflation. This year with the Ukraine War and supply chain crisis exacerbated by the war and China's lockdown, he is forced to hike interest rates and now faces the real possibility of a recession or a stagflation.
"You can't solve a problem on the same level it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level,"-Albert Einstein
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