RustyShackleford
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You suggested a holdout would cause more favorable outcome.None of us know all the details. But in reality, we have political prisoners around the world. Many who have been imprisoned for years or decades. She’s been there for 10 months. Hard labor camp or not, stirred up charges or not; her ignorance set herself up for failure and the USA has to expend one of its bargaining chips for PR purposes. To me this appears rushed.
The State Department works to free imprisoned people all around the world. Someone was just freed from Russia this year. They have been working on Whelan for a while. When it is a high profile case, especially with ex-military they jump on it. The timeline is often dictated by the foreign government.
Griner was lucky and cursed that she was a celebrity. The media coverage made high ranking get involved, but it also meant Russia would ask a high price.
Griner is not coming home after ten months is not just as a function of the US caring more, but the timeline the Russian were cool with.
It comes off like you wanted her to suffer more and do more time just so you could feel more comfortable with the trade. Which seems silly and needlessly cruel to me.