Trump’s cost-of-living politics just rescued Putin’s war chest
Trump announced over the weekend an agreement to release 1.8 million tonnes of diesel to the American and global marketplace, an arrangement energy experts believe is too small and too late to have any meaningful effect on cost of living in the United States. The side effect, the text states, is cash flowing into the Russian war machine. It adds that continued Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure now risk upsetting Trump directly, leaving Kyiv to choose between a successful military campaign and the chance at a closer relationship with the United States.
Why it matters: The arrangement shows how energy security and the domestic political incentives of Washington now shape the course of the war in Ukraine.