Biden offers someone who's important to Russia, an arms dealer, in exchange for someone who's important to the US, a melanin dealer.
I do think it's quite stupid, because this will only encourage countries like Russia to take foreign citizens hostage in order to blackmail their governments.
We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip
This was an American official. Was that official Miss Teen South Carolina?
I'm not familiar with the case of the other American they are asking for who is accused of espionage, but Griner literally broke Russian drug laws. I don't think anyone disputes that.
While she may be traded for something the Russians are interested in, she wasn't arrested to use as a bargaining chip, and the US would have done the same to a foreign national that broke our laws.
Biden offers someone who's important to Russia, an arms dealer, in exchange for someone who's important to the US, a melanin dealer.
I do think it's quite stupid, because this will only encourage countries like Russia to take foreign citizens hostage in order to blackmail their governments.
This was an American official. Was that official Miss Teen South Carolina?
I'm not familiar with the case of the other American they are asking for who is accused of espionage, but Griner literally broke Russian drug laws. I don't think anyone disputes that.
While she may be traded for something the Russians are interested in, she wasn't arrested to use as a bargaining chip, and the US would have done the same to a foreign national that broke our laws.
Griner broke American drug laws too, didn't she? Cannabis is still illegal at the federal level, even if she's not being prosecuted for it.
True. It would be hilarious if the US got her freed only to jail her upon her return. One can dream.