Russian pro-democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is the name you need to know right now.

Kara-Murza is the highest profile Russian dissident left after the murder of Aleksei Navalny. Kara-Murza is a permanent resident of the United States. His wife and children are American citizens. Kara-Murza has survived two poisoning attempts and is now imprisoned in one of the Russian dictator’s Gulag 2.0 camps.

Putin doesn’t worry much, if at all, about what President Biden thinks about this because President Biden talks a tough game but does nothing when his bluff is called. Navalny, was Biden’s “red line” with Putin, and like Obama’s “red line” with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons, dictators often ignore both presidents have paid no price.

British journalist Douglas Murray wrote in The Telegraph: “Under President Biden America has been seen continuously as being in retreat from the rest of the world.”

Murray was right.

We’re watching a downward spiral