Gordon: A Trump security is empty, Mr. Zelensky

Philip H. Gordon/New York Times: Doubts about Mr. Trump’s willingness to stand by a U.S. security guarantee for Ukraine start with the fact that despite periodic threats to do so, he has never shown the slightest willingness to directly confront Mr. Putin’s Russia, certainly not militarily. On the contrary, over the past year as president, Mr. Trump significantly curtailed U.S. military and financial support to Ukraine, embraced Russia’s narrative about the war to the point of absurdly blaming Ukraine for starting it and repeatedly held out the prospect of greater U.S.-Russia economic cooperation. If Ukraine can’t rely on Mr. Trump even to provide assistance while it is the object of outright invasion and aggression, it’s hard to see him doing so, let alone confronting Russia militarily, in some lesser contingency just because of a nominal commitment…