The United States might not often negotiate with terrorists. However, under President Joe Biden, the U.S. seems pretty happy to be extorted by Russia.

ConsiderBloomberg’s reporting on Thursday that Colonial Pipeline paid $5 million to the DarkSide hacker group to regain access to its networks. This is a huge victory for President Vladimir Putin of Russia, one that must have Putin and his security chief Nikolai Patrushev in hysterics.