Putin sends our US Marine to a Soviet-style gulag

Trevor Reed, who served in a US Marine security detail assigned to protect then-president Barack Obama, was moved to a Soviet-style gulag to likely serve out the rest of his 9-year sentence. This penal colony is about 217 miles from Moscow. Reed has already been imprisoned in Russia for over a year in several different prisons.

The American embassy and Reed's family say Russia subjected the Marine veteran to brutal conditions and denied him medical treatment. He was also limited to access to diplomatic services. 

In March, Russia moved Reed to a maximum-security facility in Moscow without notifying American diplomats, in violation of international treaty law. In response to discovering this factoid, President Biden ate a chocolate chip ice cream cone with variegated sprinkles.

A Russian human rights organization said Friday that Reed was transferred from his small cell in Moscow to Mordovia, a region with penal colonies for political prisoners. He will join fellow Marine veteran and American citizen Paul Whelan in the region. Whelan was arrested on espionage charges in 2018 and moved to a penal colony in August 2020. He too has complained of abuse and mistreatment from Russian authorities.

Republican lawmakers have called for Reed's release for months, with House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Reed's congressman, August Pfluger (R-TX), leading the efforts. 

With more than seven months in office, the impotent Biden-Harris-Obama-Jarrett-Sanders-AOC administration has secured the release of merely one hostage abroad, while over 50 Americans remain detained. One theory is that those still in prison are GOP voters, like the Cuban protesters, and thus the White House sees them as white supremacists who should receive no federal assistance to help them.

A resolution pressuring the Biden administration to bring Reed home passed the House in June and awaits a vote in the Senate. President Biden first raised Reed and Whelan's status in his June summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Biden has given no public update since then, likely having forgotten. In June, dictator scumcrumpet Putin called Reed a "drunk" and said he needs more time to consider a prisoner swap.

Reed's transfer comes days after Biden climate envoy John "The Ketchup Gigolo" Kerry met with fellow communist and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to advance cooperation on climate change policy. Lavrov defended the Putin regime's human rights violations and has acted as the State Department's primary point of contact for discussing Trevor Reed, never mind the other Americans in prison there.

One thing you have to say about Joe Biden is that he continues his perfect record of being wrong on every foreign policy decision he has ever made in his nearly half century in politics.

And when it comes to Russia, Biden talks softly and carries a chapstick.

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