Granted, the release of an American jailed in Russia from the start of the war in Ukraine is something to be celebrated, but when the person responsible for his imprisonment and ill treatment is hailed as a “humanitarian” for letting him go, that’s a butt-kissing too far.
That was such when Vladimir Putin yesterday released 74-year-old Stephen Hubbard, and American envoy Steve Witkoff, in Russia for negotiations or the semblance thereof, thanked Putin in this way:
“You talk so much about my president — President Trump — being a humanitarian. You also are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you and I thank you.”
Okay, so Witkoff was secluded in a Kremlin cell, er, meeting room, and had to say something nice, but come on….
