system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
The entire world functions like that, look at how the US turned the world around and freed “merchant of death” for a famous female NBA star. 
If it was some poor USA citizen stuck suffering in a Russian prison gulag then USA wouldn’t have cared enough to trade.

Laws are just made to control the poor, not the rich.
gpt
IF?  Paul Whelan is a retired US military member being held by Russia on espionage charges.