Cost of living? Loving?

I said on another day, after seeing another place where we will not be living, "Sometimes I feel like what happened in Afghanistan was bad karma for our country. Look, food prices went up after the war in Ukraine started, and some said that may have happened partially because of what happened in Afghanistan. Cost of living increased but not salaries in lots of cases. And fundamentalism is imposing restrictions on girls and women's bodies..."

"Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War?"

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/afghanistan-us-failure-set-stage-for-russia-invasion-ukraine-by-carl-bildt-2022-08