It’s easy to see through Trump’s Ukraine ploy | Kenneth Roth

In advance of the midterms, Trump is blaming Kyiv for high gas prices while making clear moves to support Russia As the US midterms approach, Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine’s democracy in a desperate effort to deny responsibility for worsening inflation. Yet this past weekend’s dramatic elections in Brazil and Serbia show that voters can see through such subterfuge. There is nothing like a political party’s corrupt indifference to the plight of ordinary people to galvanize voter turnout. If US voters follow in the footsteps of their Brazilian and Serbian counterparts, a Democratic landslide is likely.

If that happens, Democrats in Congress must act quickly to rein in Trump before he does more damage to the US’s economy and global stature. Any objective observer would see that Trump’s war of choice against Iran has inflated energy prices, because Iran predictably responded by restricting shipments in the strait of Hormuz, through which much of the Middle East’s oil and gas flows.