A U.S. Marine finally heads home after four years in Russia
Four years of diplomatic limbo just ended with a quiet flight home.
After four years of being stuck in a Russian prison on charges that everyone outside of the Kremlin called total nonsense, a former U.S. Marine is finally on his way back to American soil. His family has spent half a decade fighting to get him out, calling the entire ordeal a clear case of wrongful detention.
The bureaucratic nightmare is finally over, though the cost of four years of life in an environment known for being anything but welcoming is impossible to calculate. It is the kind of situation that turns a person into a geopolitical chess piece overnight.
State-sponsored hostage diplomacy remains the most efficient way to remind everyone that passports are basically just fancy paper once you cross the wrong border.
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