She is a human being and I would not wish what she is going through on anyone. She will appreciate the US when she gets home. We should get her out of there. She is a pawn in this war.
It is just as reasonable to believe that she will hate the US when she gets out claiming they should have done more to save her.
It is interesting to me that they didnt exchange her for that Arms Dealer. Biden seemed willing to do it.
I agree with you. She is being used by Putin because of our politician’s stupid obsession with Ukraine, which is just a money laundering operation for many of them. No matter what she said about the US, there is no justification for a 9 year prison sentence for possession of THG vapes. Especially not in a gulag. I don’t even know if she really had them or if they were planted. Everyone talks tough on here about this, but the situation is an absolute travesty on many levels and a microcosm or how screwed up our country is right now.
> She is a human being and I would not wish what she is going through on anyone. <
I kinda agree with you. It would be one thing if she deliberately tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin into Russia. But from what I could gather, she had a small amount of marijuana oil in her luggage. Did she even know it was there?
Griner is a stupid and shallow person. And I get that you had better know the laws of the country you’re entering. But the misery she will now endure just doesn’t seem to fit the crime she committed. Like I just said, it wasn’t a kilo of heroin.
“She will appreciate the US when she gets home. We should get her out of there. She is a pawn in this war.”
NO and NO and NO.
End of story.
Trump would have had her ass back home long ago.
“She is a human being and I would not wish what she is going through on anyone.”
Reconsider.
“We should get her out of there. She is a pawn in this war.”
We may see her as a pawn, but I think it’s a lot simpler. Every year Americans are arrested in foreign countries for violating drug laws. They go to jail. It just happens that there’s a war going on and because of that her jail term is in the news and presented as political.
This is from the article at the link. “The Philadelphia-based law office, which aids Americans imprisoned abroad, estimates that 1,500 to 2,000 Americans are being held in foreign jails on such charges as drug possession, customs violations and disorderly conduct.” From another article, in 2019 Russia had 26,200 foreign nationals in their prison system.
She won’t appreciate the US. She’ll complain about the US failure to get her out
Anyone traveling with drugs outside the US is too stupid to have it easy
Release J6 prisoners first.
I doubt it'll appreciate USA. It'll be bitter because it wasn't rescued sooner.
She/He/It has nothing to do with this war. The thing carried illegal drugs in to a foreign country. The thing should be glad it wasn't traveling to some Asian country where they would still be beating on it. Caning sux. So it gets to make uniforms or whatever for 8 or 9 years. Big whoop!
I will bet $1 right now that she spends her entire time there blaming the USA for not getting her out and when she comes home she'll hate this country more than ever.
It's how people like her think.
“We should get her out of there. She is a pawn in this war.”
She is getting standard Russian justice for drug importation. If it was Singapore she would be hanged.
“She is a human being “
No, she’s not.