Brittney Griner Coming Home!

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Anonymous wrote:We should not be giving up Viktor Bout. But we will.

Americans, please listen to all travel advisories and do not go to no-travel countries. You are not special. You don’t have the protection by the bad countries no matter what you think. Now we have to give up a terrible person for a dummy who thought that it was a good idea to go Russia when she did. I am seriously happy for her as the charges were crap, but she shouldn’t have gone.

Hindsight is 20/20. Did anyone really think we would be sitting at the end of 2022 with Russia having invaded and independent country a la World War I? I just remembered myself that the Ukraine invasion only started in Feb 24. The State Department issued the level 4 warning on Jan 23. Griner was detained on Feb 17th. If it wasn't Griner, it would have been someone else.

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Anonymous wrote:So we released someone we thought was a truly evil arms dealer doing major harm for a low-life druggie who’d previously had issues in the US legal system for domestic abuse and whose only talent is with a basketball? What kind of idiots are running our government?

Poor trolling. Get on a treadmill or something and walk off your anger in a more productive way.

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I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

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Thank goodness!

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The Whalen family has issued a statement saying that they were told in advance and approved of the decision understanding that Biden’s hands were tied.

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Yet another piece of red meat for congress. We traded an arms dealer for a druggie instead of someone who was serving the country

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another piece of red meat for congress. We traded an arms dealer for a druggie instead of someone who was serving the country

You can buy cannabis oil at health stores. She's hardly a druggie. She was only detained and arrested to piss off the US. Not for actually doing anything wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another piece of red meat for congress. We traded an arms dealer for a druggie instead of someone who was serving the country

Someone got played here, and I do mean here.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

DP. Whelan’s situation is very different from Griner’s. Anyone treating them as equivalent is only showing their fundamental ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

Brittany was actually guilt of having CBD...not a big deal in this country but a huge no-no in Rusdia. She was playing with fire being over there in the first place and then in possession of paraphernalia, resin, oil, and such. And Russians are racist to begin with so she really had the blocks stacked up against her.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

How about holding off trading the actually guilty arms dealer?

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

I'm that original PP. I wasn't comparing the two. Whelan's family is in the area I live in and his case has come up in the community. I'm not aware of whether he was spying or not, but rather that I wouldn't want any human being to go through the Russian prison system. Not every one who mentions the two is trying to speak negatively of Griner's release.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

Brittany was actually guilt of having CBD...not a big deal in this country but a huge no-no in Rusdia. She was playing with fire being over there in the first place and then in possession of paraphernalia, resin, oil, and such. And Russians are racist to begin with so she really had the blocks stacked up against her.

You’re right, but a lot of countries, if not all, have ridiculous laws that could be used to target individuals, knowing that many people will commit minor offenses. We can’t really let that go unchallenged without making it incredibly dangerous for US citizens to travel internationally.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad she is coming home. I hope she is able to get some therapy. I can't imagine what she has been though. I'm also thinking of Whelan. Hope he is free soon.

It’s unclear what makes sense to do with Whalen. It sure sounds like he’s actually guilty of spying. If he came up with the scheme himself, then there’s a limit to what we should do. But, it doesn’t seem like he was in a great position to do this without help. Maybe he had a CIA handler, or maybe the FSB entrapped him so he could be used in a prisoner swap. Regardless, its a very different situation than Griner’s.

This. He was definitely spying. It's a shame he's imprisoned but agree it's a totally different situation.