Nearly every week, another psychodrama arises between the United States and its NATO partners.

Europeans blame the Trump administration for the usual things—a lack of cordiality and bombastic threats.

But two truths, rarely spoken, characterize all these spats.

One is hypocrisy; the other is insecurity.

Take Trump’s recent demand that Ukraine cease attacks on Russian diesel refineries.

Given the midterms and the critical issue of fuel prices, it was understandable that Trump might request an energy “ceasefire.”

So both Russia and Ukraine were asked to stop their attacks on refineries to calm jittery global diesel markets and help stabilize sky-high prices.

But the American Left, the Ukrainians, and the Europeans went ballistic—given that the aggressor, Russia, is blanketing Ukrainian skies with missiles and drones, while Russia’s critical refining industry remains vulnerable to retaliatory Ukrainian drone attacks.