There are a couple of stories dominating world news circa May 2022 and they are inextricably intertwined. The first, and probably most notable, is the Russia-Ukraine conflict which had entered its 87th day by the time of writing; and the second, inflation. Inflation, defined by Wikipedia.org as “a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy” was readying for an onslaught before the conflict started, due largely to the impact of the 2020/2021 COVID-19 pandemic on global supply chains, and the record stimulus that governments pumped into their economies to survive the crisis. The war added fuel to the fire in the form of surging commodity, gas and oil prices.