Did the United States betray its ideals by making energy concessions to Venezuela and Iran

To compensate for Washington's ban on Russian energy imports imposed in reaction to the Ukraine conflict, US authorities have secretly made overtures to an adversarial duo of oil suppliers, Iran and Venezuela. It is too soon to know whether the unconventional endeavour to compensate for the oil supply shortage would produce fruit.

So far, the administration's efforts have primarily resulted in backlash from Republicans and De....