If you want that journalist being held in Russia back, your best bet is to send some guys to go in and get him. The more you dignify regimes like Putin’s Russia with diplomatic courtesies and recognition of legitimacy, the worse they will behave. If you were truly an exceptional state, your rules would be the only rules that matter. But, of course, you aren’t. You’re so terrified that the construct is failing that you have to prop up dictatorships everywhere simply to legitimize the model. Sad.
by achrilock