I did the maths on my parent's first home, which they brought in the early 80s for the equivalent of €35,000 when adjusted for inflation. Today, the same house sells for more than ten times that amount. Within one generation, we've made it so that one home for boomers now costs the equivalent of an entire street of houses for their children.

It's also being reported that the Russian military is getting cocky because they also expected Ukraine to launch some massive 2 day counteroffensive. That didn't happen, so now they think their positions are really strong, and that they can't be displaced. Little do they seem to understand that there are tens of thousands of highly trained and well-equipped Ukrainians yet to enter the fight. They're in for a very nasty surprise.