Putin brags about his American escort

Among Putin's souvenirs from Akaska the other day was a video of super-stealthy American jet fighters safeguarding him as he returned to his homeland. (This image was clipped from the Kremlin's propaganda channel on Telegraph.) The Anchorage meeting was, altogether, a triumph for the Russian dictator, who could have been arrested for war crimes if he stopped in another country en route to his meeting with Trump.

And what did we get in return? Timothy Snyder of Yale, who knows more about Ukraine than anyone in Washington, says it best: "Trump has made extraordinary concessions to Russia in exchange for nothing at all."