Posted on 12/08/2022 6:32:32 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price – and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years in Russia.
The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad. Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist whose monthslong imprisonment on drug charges brought unprecedented attention to the population of wrongful detainees.
"Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner. She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home," Biden tweeted Thursday morning.
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Can you tell us any more details?
That's Tier Seven Immunity, in order.
An arms dealer to procure arms for Putin ... and you say there is even more?
Yikes!
I wonder if her opinions on the USA and it’s historical values have changed since she has had some down time to think about them??
I wonder if she has changed her mind about lesbianism??
Better trade than what’s his name the deserter for 5 high value Al Queda terrorists. 😉. But still they should have held out for the marine.
EXACTLY
The paying audience for women’s pro basketball has to be about level with buying a ticket to watch paint dry.
I follow alot of sports-—
“Women’s” basketball——not interesting.
Less interesting with gender bending players.
HA HA
THEN the gender bending players would certainly be REVEALED
Should have traded for the Marine and not her.
She is Black.
Kissing Black ass and giving Labor money is top of the Biden list
They aren’t Americans. They are Afghans who got a green card as refugees and came here for cash. They vacationed, lived cheap, and spent half the year in the place they fled from.
It’s not like actual “Americans” were left there.
However some from such a background have been saved.
Don't know how it will turn out for Griner.
yup, pretty much
We had no business arresting him anyway. A Russian, in Thailand, selling guns to Columbians, somehow violates US law? I could see Columbia charging him, but not us. We were trying to find ways to arrest him for selling weapons in Africa over decades.
Merchant of death? Check out what we sell to the PLO, Syrian rebels of every sort, Taliban, Ukrainian nazis, what we snuggled to Mexican cartels, etc.
Explain the difference.
“ The American most representing American Values and Policy Has Been Freed!”
Thus my exceedingly low view of America.
“ We always get fleeced in these prisoner swap deals. ”
That’s an easy problem to correct. I don’t consider America “we” any longer.
“was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47’s that would’ve been used to kill DEA agents.”
Oh, you mean like the US Government did in Fast and Furious? They did the same exact thing and it was designed to be used to strip away 2A rights in America.
I wouldn’t be surprised that, after she is safely back in the USA, she starts screeching about HOW LONG it took to get her back. Lucky for her that it wasn’t up to me; I’d NEVER let her come back this quick.
So we swapped a guilty arms dealer for a guilty black lesbian drug smuggler and left an innocent white man in jail?
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