Trump’s gift to Putin is a catastrophe for all of us

Volodymyr Zelensky is discovering that his fate is tethered not to some grand abstraction of Ukrainian liberty or even to Vladimir Putin’s irascibility, but to the inflation-bruised suburban swing voter in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, eyes fixed on the glowing numerals at the gas station, poised to punish any administration that allows gasoline prices to edge beyond the realm of the bearable. Putin may be Zelensky’s nemesis, but it is the cold calculus of American electoral arithmetic that may yet prove his undoing. After a “very good call” with Putin on Monday, Donald Trump announced he would loosen oil sanctions on…